A mysterious virus has been attacking hundred of sites, most UK-based. Among them, Directline-holidays, a company for the customers with a small budget but eager to have a vacation.The computers of the people using the site are infected with a Trojan which extracts information and uses for its purpose.

Specifically, the Websense Security Labs expects: the Olympics will spur a flurry of hacker activity such as compromises of popular Olympic news or other sports sites; hackers will leverage the increased adoption of Macs and iPhones as new means for cross-platform Web attacks; special interest groups that fall within a certain age group, wealth bracket, or people with particular purchasing habits, will become targets of Web 2.0 attacks; and spam will increase in the blogosphere and “talk back” sections of news sites to drive traffic and increase search engine rankings of infected Web sites.

Shopping online can be very relieving, cheaper and time-saving as long as it is done safely but it can just as well become quite risky.There are, however, a few tips that the Federal Trade Commission, according to North Jersey magazine, has offered to those engaging online shopping.

According to security experts who have been tracking the sudden surge of badvertising, which was still ongoing as of Nov. 14, ads from an RBN front company called AdTraff and other RBN front organizations are using JavaScript and Flash in ingenious new ways, inserting SWF (Shockwave Flash Object) files into Flash animations that then spawn entirely different—and thoroughly malicious—ads than depicted in the submitted Flash file.

Free "Trend Micro Web Security for PS3" to be provided as the first service built for a gaming system to block malicious Web sites using URL filtering combined with Web reputation

Trend Micro announced a new total Web security service for PLAYSTATION 3 (hereinafter referred to as PS3™). Trend Micro Web Security for PS3 is available starting on November 8, and will be free of charge until the end of April 2008.

It wasn't long after Apple released the iPhone in June that researchers discovered that every application on the device -- from the calculator on up -- runs as "root," i.e., with full system privileges. As a result, a serious vulnerability in any of these applications would allow hackers to gain complete control of the device.

The war against computer malware is far from ending as Trojan writers find new ways to elude the security countermeasures deployed by corporations and end-users alike. The latest trend in Trojan distribution is web hosted malware and this has put the cyber criminals one step ahead of the security vendors.

Secure Computing principal research scientist Dimitri Alperovitch says that “We have seen a steady increase over the last year or so from malware being distributed typically through email now shifting to the Web factor.

WebWithout provides safe online protection for your family or workplace. It is done by providing a free, simple and easy to use service that filters out the less desirable aspects of the Internet.

McAfee, Inc. today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee SiteAdvisor, the world's leading safe search and surf technology, has been downloaded more than 75 million times by Internet users.

McAfee is the leading security provider offering the integrated proactive and preventative protection of SiteAdvisor, with easy-to-understand safety ratings that clearly indicate whether a site is risky or not. This helps consumers avoid malware such as browser exploits that make the PC inoperable, as well as adware, spam, viruses and other online dangers that could slow the PC and make it difficult to use.

Sunbelt Software reports that the Bank of India's Web site has been hacked and is used to distribute an enormous amount of malware, including rootkits and trojans, to the bank visitors. "It's very destructive stuff," says Alex Eckelberry, president of security firm Sunbelt Software.

Eckelberry says some of Sunbelt's employees was doing research during the past few hours and accidentally visited the Web site and determined it was infected with at least a dozen malware programs attempting to infect any vulnerable machine used by someone visiting Bankofindia.com.