MetaFilter posts tagged with security and virus

It's all Greek to Me

scalefree — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:30:49 -0800

In 1984 computer pioneer Ken Thompson wrote one of the seminal works of computer security, Reflections on Trusting Trust [PDF]. In it he postulated putting a trojan horse inside a compiler as a means of infecting software compiled by it. 25 years later somebody has finally done just that. Researchers at anti-virus house Sophos have discovered a virus that places a backdoor into applications compiled with the Delphi language. They've identified at least 3000 separate Delphi applications that have had this backdoor compiled into them so far, including banking programs and programs used for cellphone programming.

Worms!!!!!!!!!!

archimago — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:47:51 -0800

New Phase for Sobig.f Expected to Hit Friday. Any . . . minute . . . now. . .

darian — Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:08:56 -0800

First JPEG virus discovered... "The W32/Perrun virus, as it is now being called, extracts data from JPEG files and then injects picture files with infected digital images. A fair warning to those individuals who are fond of sending multimedia files to friends and families." Is everyone's porn stash threatened now?

bkdelong — Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:30:40 -0800

Microsoft's newest version of Windows.... billed as the most secure ever, contains several serious flaws that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software. The company released a free fix Thursday.

A Microsoft official acknowledged that the risk to consumers was unprecedented because the glitches allow hackers to seize control of all Windows XP operating system software without requiring a computer user to do anything except connect to the Internet.

vowe — Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:16:37 -0800

Gartner Group recommends that IIS users look elsewhere for a better web server.

nico — Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:01:35 -0800

New worm doing the rounds. Great.

feelinglistless — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:19:29 -0800

Those British boys at it again. It was like this during the war, y'know. I remember my old mate Alan Turing beating the system in much the same way. Saved the world he did. Tally-ho.

fooljay — Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:41:22 -0800

The Winux virus is reported to affect both Windows and Linux boxes/applications. The article says it's "written in a primitive computer language called 'assembly language'." On a side note, who do they get to write these articles? Certainly they are uncomfortable with technology...

borgle — Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:27:41 -0800

Up to 20% of the internet vulnerable to a virus. There is a new Linux worm virus. Apparently, it steals passwords, installs and hides other hacking tools on infected systems, and then uses those systems to seek other servers to attack. Sys admins are advised to run a check on their servers and upgrade their BIND version.

skallas — Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:19:56 -0800

The bastards at Symantec are now charging for virus updates. They've just lost a customer, a hopefully many more. The feedback form is here if you feel the need to bitch at them.

tiaka — Tue, 16 May 2000 12:58:43 -0800

Blame MICRO$OFT for the "I love you" virus, ohh, and it has 40 authors to it