British police have made the first arrest of a man and a woman who were found to be using the Zeus trojan parasite to steal banking information.

It never stops, the constant abuse of popular subject matter used by cybercriminals to poison internet search results with malicious links. This time the fans of the new Twilight movie are the target.

Malware hackers are commencing new efforts to infect computer users with the notorious Zeus banking Trojan again which means we could be facing an epidemic of online banking theft.

If well all knew the culprit of every then computer users would never have to worry about the dangers of using social networks ever again. Too bad we do not live in that perfect world and the reality we face is that Twitter one of the many social networks that continues to be a huge target for hackers.

A majority of computer users play online computer games for their pleasure or relaxation after a long workday. It be unfortunate to find out that an online computer game infected by a virus turns your day into a stressful one.

A notorious botnet, responsible for almost a third of the world’s spam emails, has been destroyed by a security firm.

Most computer users may not notice the destruction of the botnet Ozdok due to the fact that most of it’s IPs have already been blacklisted by most email services. Ozdok, dubbed Mega-D, was the leader of the spambot pack, spewing 32% of the world’s spam, according to reliable spamtraps.

In an unforeseen situation an internet virus was found to frame a computer user as a collector of child pornography. Out of all of the menacing things that a computer Virus could do, this ranks at the top.

If you are an active user of Facebook or MySpace, then you may want to take note of the recent scamming and phishing attacks that could install malware on your computer.

Do you remember a test being performed by Sophos regarding Microsoft’s Windows 7 security in the previous week? If not, let us enlighten you on an examination conducted by security vendor Sophos that said that after the test was conducted, Windows 7 was vulnerable to 8 out of 10 of the most common malware. [...]

Koobface has taken aim at Google Reader to spam malicious URLs in social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. The Koobface gang has used controlled Google Reader accounts to host URLs containing an image that looks like a flash movie.