Neowin News Feed for: Spread

You can now visualize the spread of the #MeToo movement using Google Trends

Usama Jawad — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:32:01 +0000

Google has announced "Me Too Rising", a dedicated website which uses data from Google Trends to allow people to visualize the spread of the #MeToo movement and its impact worldwide. Read more...

'Italian job' attacks spread worldwide

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:19:30 +0000

A coordinated series of web-based attacks that began last week in Italy is quickly expanding and has now infected 10,000 websites around the world. When security researchers first noticed the threat, it has affected 1,000... Read more...

Wikipedia used to spread malicious code

Steven Parker — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:20:10 +0000

A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false... Read more...

Virus Uses Tsunami to Spread

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:19:35 +0000

A new virus has appeared on the internet, trying to trick kind-hearted users into executing it by pretending to be looking for donations to the tsunami appeal for south-east Asia. The mass mailer worm, known... Read more...

New MyDoom draws on IE flaw to spread

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:34:56 +0000

A new version of MyDoom uses an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to spread, antivirus companies warned on Monday. The recently discovered vulnerability in the browser software allows the offshoot to... Read more...

Wallon worm uses Yahoo, MS to spread

Fri, 14 May 2004 02:53:08 +0000

Antivirus software companies issued warnings and software updates on Tuesday and Wednesday for a new worm, Wallon, that uses deceptive Web links to Yahoo.com to trick users into downloading malicious programs. Wallon first... Read more...

Sasser worm begins to spread

Sat, 01 May 2004 19:50:28 +0000

A worm, dubbed Sasser by antivirus firms, was spreading slowly throughout the Internet on Saturday, taking advantage of a vulnerability in unpatched Windows systems to infect new hosts. The Sasser worm began spreading Friday... Read more...

Security Experts: Intego spread FUD to sell software

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:08:24 +0000

Security experts on Friday slammed security firm Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company identified as the first Trojan for Mac OS X. On Thursday, Intego issued a press release saying... Read more...

MyDoom's spread sparks antivirus critique

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:18:30 +0000

Antivirus technologies need to change because they fail to limit viruses during the crucial first hours of an epidemic, experts say. MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies. The virus, which has combined... Read more...

Keyboards may spread 'pink-eye'

Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:15:01 +0000

Researchers who investigated a 2002 outbreak of conjunctivitis, a type of eye infection also called "pink-eye," among students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire have said the germs may have spread, in part, through shared... Read more...

Sites spread mis-information about Ad-Aware

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:03:37 +0000

Whats more annoying, not posting the news and being one of few tech sites not to carry the "scoop" or actually researching the news and finding it to be untrue, unfounded and non news-worthy yet... Read more...