Mac Virus Panic!

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Cybercrooks Digging for Tax Data

It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.

Viral Video: Jen Aniston's Sex Tape (It's a Virus!)

While BoomTown is usually tired of the overexposed Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston, she is pretty funny in this online commercial for SmartWater, in which she tries make a video that “turns into a virus” by taking advantage of a number of viral Internet video trends. If only her movies were this clever.

Wi-Fi Hotspot Safety and Mac Viruses

Walt answers readers’ questions on just how safe are Wi-Fi hotspots and should Mac owners worry about computer viruses.

Mobile Security Firm Warns of New Android Trojan

A new Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and has the potential to send a significant amount of personal data from cellphones to remote servers. Mobile security specialist Lookout warned that it is the most sophisticated cellular security threat seen thus far.

Lookout: Mobile Security Picks Up Funding Steam

Wireless security specialist Lookout Mobile Security has returned to the funding well, scooping up $19.5 million in Series C funding. As part of the latest round, Index Ventures is adding its name to the roster of backers, with partner Mike Volpi joining Lookout’s board.

Saving Web Articles

Walt answers readers’ questions on saving Web articles, virus concerns and Wi-Fi-free Internet connections.

More Than 60 Charged in Cyber Scheme

More than 60 people have been charged in an alleged global scheme to use computer viruses to steal at least $3 million from U.S. bank accounts.

Siemens Halts Computer Virus as Threat Spurs Effort Against Attacks

Siemens AG said a computer virus designed to attack the industrial control systems it makes to help monitor power grids and other key infrastructure has been largely suppressed, but the threat has stepped up government and private-sector efforts to ward off future attacks.

Oops! Dell Says Some of Its Servers Contain a Virus

Dell (DELL) said Wednesday that the motherboards for some of its servers were infected with malicious software that could give a cyber criminal access to information stored on the systems. The company said in a statement that the issue only affected customers who have received replacement motherboards for four types of servers – the PowerEdge [...]