Viruses, Worms, and Spyware—Oh My! A Look at Malware Terminology
The difference between malware and a virus, worm or spyware (or even vulnerabilities) can be confusing. Here's an in-depth...
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What’s the Difference Between Malware, Trojan, Virus, and Worm?
There are a lot of heavily technical terms that get used around computer security. Many of them can be...
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Security Jargon Decoded
In any industry, you get industry-specific jargon. This article introduces a few of the terms that we’ve been dealing...
More Information about the iBotnet Worm that Attacks iPhones
We reported yesterday about a worm that affects jailbroken iPhones, stealing personal data, directing users to phishing sites, and...
iPhone worm creates botnet, copies personal data – Intego Security Memo
Malware: iPhone/iBotnet.A Discovered: November 21, 2009 Risk: Medium Description: For the third time this month, malware targeting the iPhone...
Worm Affects Jailbroken iPhones, Changes Wallpaper
[We could have illustrated this article with the picture of Rick Astley that is applied as an iPhone wallpaper...
Understanding the Different Types of Mac Malware
In the minds of most computer users, the term “computer virus” includes many types of “malware”, not all of...
Keep Safe from the Conficker/Downadup Worm
Okay, it’s clear that this is not a Mac issue; the Conficker/Downadup worm, while described as an epidemic, is...