Information Protection and Security

 
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia. The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

Reinfected machines likely part of the 5.5 to 6 million-strong Conficker headcount.
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Conficker just won't go away. Despite the efforts of the security community and the presence of numerous tools for detection and removal, the worm is still trying to infect as many as 50,000 new Microsoft Windows PCs a day. The question is: why?
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PandaLabs reports the discovery of Boface worm variant No. 56, called the Boface.BJ.worm, which tricks users into purchasing a fake anti-virus application after convincing them to download and install malware via Facebook. Some 1 percent of all computers scanned by the Panda ActiveScan online scanner have been infected with Boface since August 2008.
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ILOVEYOU was a major event, perhaps the first really major malware event on the Internet. There had been others before, including Melissa, which must have been a technical inspiration for ILOVEYOU, but ILOVEYOU hit a lot of people.
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A Vietnamese security company has detected what it believes is a new worm that thwarts Google's security protections in order to register new dummy Gmail accounts from which to send spam.
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The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5 when the latest version, Conficker.E, will simply self-destruct on infected machines, say a number of security researchers.
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The worm hacks into Twitter profiles and automatically sends unauthorized posts.