It’s Friday the Thirteenth, an infamous date in the history of malware. So here’s a satirical trip down memory lane to consider other dies irae in the computer virus calendar: * Jerusalem virus – deletes files on any Friday the 13th from 1988 onwards. This virus came out in 1987 but explicitly suppressed its payload […]
Last week, I noticed an odd-looking URL in the WebPulse logs, so I plugged it into my test browser. I was rather surprised to see a fake AV attack “scanner” page pop up. Not because these kinds of attacks are rare (they aren’t; they’re one of the most common attack forms), but rather because it’s […]
Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus? Some recent news stories seem to suggest that they might. One uncompromising headline certainly implies that battery-based malware – whether inferno-related or not – is an inevitability, trumpeting proudly that “Apple laptop batteries are the new attack vector.” That remains to be seen, as […]
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