March 31, 2009 - Just a quick note on a new spam run that's going on. It's from the same group that used Bank Of America as the lure late last week and Northern Bank on Monday. Today it's (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - In recent economic times, you can’t go anywhere without seeing or hearing the words “recession,” “mortgage crisis,” “unemployment rates increase,” and “layoffs.” I feel that spammers and hackers have been reaping the rewards in these tough economic times by (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a fake Ministry of Education Inquiry Web site in China. CHESICC is a specialized body authorized by the Chinese Ministry of Education to assist in the verification of certificates and diplomas awarded in (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - Back in 2001 I was sitting at my desk (or card table as it were) getting Foundstone off the ground as a fledgling startup. At the time we were trying to make sense of 9/11 and what it meant (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - YouTube is once again being used as a lure to spread malware.Some clown is sending out e-mails such as this:Unlike most of the other similar cases, this (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - The melodramatic Conficker countdown is starting to resemble one of those never-ending TV soap operas; everyone is talking about it, but it never draws to an end. Well, at last the countdown is in the final straight, because if (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - The YouTube video promoting a supposed Wii Points Generator, which we blogged about yesterday, has been removed due to terms of use violation.What's more, the entire "ItunesGenerator" channel has been removed.Nice.Today (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2009 - Christopher Boyd of FaceTime Security Labs wrote an interesting post regarding YouTube videos that promote Nintendo Wii Points Generators. They're a scam of course… and greedy victims attempting to steal Wii Points will get a malicious backdoor (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - Hey, our German office is ten years old (F-Secure is over 20 years old as a company).As part of the celebrations, we were asked to come up with a list (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - The type of spam runs we saw late last year (Obama and BofA) are starting to pick up again in volume. We've seen Classmates being used as a theme and two days ago it was fake (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - I remember when I first began delving into the definition of IT Risk - it was about seven years ago. I thought it was important to be very specific when explaining what risk was because it can be such a (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - Recently I’ve been playing around with Facebook and realized how much fun it can be to play their games. Most of my friends are in to the game called Mafia Wars. Mafia Wars is a game where you basically (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - You may remember the pilot project for our Online Backup back in December.Version 2.0.0 is now available; its beta piloting project has just started. Online Backup makes it possible to back up your important data (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - Get the patches while they are hot:Update Foxit Reader if you have it already.Update Adobe Reader if you still have it.Do note (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2009 - Much has been said about the DOWNAD worm (a.k.a. Conficker) and its enigmatic payload that will supposedly be unleashed on April 1st. There are two days to go until the moment of truth and the hype isn’t expected to die (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2009 - April's approach has created a lot of chatter about Conficker, a worm largely considered to be one of the most widespread infections in recent years. Some estimates put peak infection at over 10,000,000 hosts. A large effort has been made (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2009 - Posted by Mike DausinGreetings, we are still working hard to finalize our coverage against the C variant of Conficker. Expect a DV update on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Systems infected with the C variant are setup to start receiving (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2009 - Our Chief Security Advisor, Patrik Runald, is based in San Jose, USA. You can follow his Tweets from http://twitter.com/patrikrunald. On 10/03/09 At 08:42 AM Read more
March 29, 2009 - Malware targeting machines running on Mac OS are quickly becoming quite common, with new variants appearing on a seemingly monthly basis. Just last week, our friends at Intego reported of new variant of the RSPLUG (continue reading...) Read more
March 27, 2009 - We’ve received a lot of questions from customers about April 1, 2009 and the latest Conficker variant discovered earlier this month, Worm:Win32/Conficker.D (also known as Conficker.C or Downadup.C by (continue reading...) Read more