Tag: ZOMBIE

George A. Romero is known best for his classic zombie flicks 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dawn of the Dead,' but has been on a steady march towards complete self-parody since 'Day of the Dead.' Now, the horror director has decided to take his name brand to the iPhone with 'App of the Dead.' The $1.99 tool lets you take and edit photographs to zombify your subject. There are some impressive ...

There are plenty of malicious programs that can do plenty of nasty things to plenty of computers, but, far and away, the most common type of attack results in what is known as a zombie. A zombie is a hijacked computer that can be remote-controlled by the attacker and made to do his or her bidding. According to a recent study by security firm McAffee, there were 50-percent more zombie computers ...

We've covered plenty of posts on rogue botnets, which are collections of virus-infected computers that hackers use to fulfill their evil whims, usually by unleashing denial of service attacks on sites they don't like. These compromised computers are often referred to as zombies. Now, with cell phones getting smarter and more capable, the belief is that it won't be long before hackers have fleets ...

If you receive an e-mail or visit a Web page asking you to look at BestBarack.com, JoBarack.com or TheBarackSite.com, just don't do it. According to Panda Security, an Internet security firm, scores of malicious Web sites are running a fake news story entitled "Barack Obama has refused to be a president." People who go to the sites are asked to download a file, which (of course) is a virus that ...

Since it's Halloween, we can't help but get in the spirit with a little bit of zombie making fun. The online photo editor Picnik has added a fun seasonal tool under effects to "zombify" an image. The steps are simple, upload a picture with one or more people in it where the face is clearly visible. Then go to the create tab and select "effects." Then you can use a slider increase the level of ...

A plague of computers turned into zombies sounds like a plot for a techno-horror-thriller summer blockbuster film -- though it probably wouldn't be a very good one. This is no film, though, as it's happening for real: According to the Shadowserver Foundation, which tracks malicious software, computers worldwide are increasingly becoming infected with spyware and other covertly malicious ...

Thought Twitter was just innocent (and frequently inane) updates about what your friends and associates? Think again. Enterprising online criminals have apparently started to zero in on the service as a way to distribute their bogus wares. In this case, an apparently Brazilian Twitterer posted a link to a video purporting to be of a celebrity caught in a private moment. Naturally there was no ...

Usually walls are used to keep things out, you know, like the wind, or bugs, or barbarian invaders. Ironic, then, that Facebook's iconic Wall, the thing that helped to set it apart from MySpace and grab a huge share of the online social networking space, is actually being used by some to spread malicious software capable of turning your machine into a zombie, so that others with bad intents can ...

Enemies of the Kremlin have suddenly found themselves under attack by hackers; their Web sites crippled under a siege of coordinated and widespread attacks the scale of which only the Kremlin could finance, they say. The victims, which include opposition parties and independent media outlets are being hammered with Distributed Denial of Service attacks, which is when computers that have been ...