December 4, 2008 - There are few human instincts that are less powerful than winning. With that, however, comes the unfortunate problem of cheating. In the real world, cheating usually has a fairly direct consequence that makes you not want to do (continue reading...) Read more
December 4, 2008 - This is not the plot of one of the famous films of the James Bond saga, although some scam attempts deserve an Oscar. JYou have probably heard of the saying “unlucky at cards, (continue reading...) Read more
December 4, 2008 - Being the manager of this blog implies many things, one of them is the common pressure I receive from our lovely marketing team who wants me to publish every "advertisement" stuff, from reviews in magazines where we have great (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2008 - I would like to take a break from our regularly programmed blog to talk about a timely bit of information — how to keep you safe during this holiday season. After all, we use the internet as much as our (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2008 - This week CNET news reported on some interesting, new ways of bypassing facial recognition technology built into newer laptops. The reporter (Dong Ngo) published an interesting article which shows an easy way of bypassing the software from companies such (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2008 - As economic conditions worsen, and companies seek new ways to cut costs, technologies like virtualization become more attractive. Virtualization can reduce costs in multiple ways, through hardware consolidation, power reduction, decreased space and cooling requirements and reduced IT staff time. (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2008 - With two wars and an economy in recession, President-Elect Obama is not looking for any more challenges to tackle. But while he works to solve the immediate crises, he needs to make sure that combating cybercrime remains high on the (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2008 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a spam lure that attempts to capitalize on the recently reported natural disasters in the state of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil. This campaign uses email messages that look like (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2008 - In previous posts, we have talked about tools to create malware, like Constructor/Turkojan, Constructor/Wormer and Constructor/YFakeCreator.And we have recently detected a new version of these malicious tools called Constructor/BitTera.C.This type of tools (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2008 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered another infectious holiday email making the rounds. Victims are receiving messages promoting a coupon from McDonald's or a holiday promotion from the Coca-Cola company. Both messages include a .zip attachment that contains either (continue reading...) Read more