May 15, 2009 - I am excited to announce another important milestone in our growth as the world’s largest dedicated security company. Today, at our May 15th Investor Day meeting in New York City, we announced that we will acquire Solidcore Systems, Inc., a (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - Microsoft finally released on Tuesday the patch for the PowerPoint vulnerability that has been exploited by cybercriminals early last month. The said update patches 14 Microsoft PowerPoint vulnerabilities, 11 of which were rated as critical, Microsoft’s highest threat (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - Last week, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO, held its second members’ meeting this year that took place in Budapest, Hungary as an extension to the CARO Workshop. AMTSO released (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - We always recommend not to use a Windows user with admin privileges as our default Windows user. Actually, most of the malware relies in the fact that people use high privileges users on their (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - Only a decade or so ago it was extremely difficult to carry out searches on everyone in the US without hiring a private detective and it costing the earth. Now that there is the web and easily available databases, (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - Today is the 2nd anniversary of the nation-scale DDoS attacks against Estonia. (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2009 - Last week, a Vietnamese security company located a worm that mass-registers Gmail accounts for spamming purposes. In order to do that, the worm needs to crack the Gmail CAPTCHA security images. (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2009 - Dark Reading just posted a news article titled "Researchers Hack Web Application Firewalls", here's a short excerpt: A pair of researchers at the OWASP Europe 2009 conference on Wednesday showed how some Web (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2009 - Read Part 1. Russia has always been famous for some of its better known exports such as oil, gas, vodka and Andrei Arshavin (for our non-European readers, he kicks a leather ball around a pitch without wearing any (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2009 - identity thiefIdentity theft and fraud cases are everywhere these days. Online identity theft is the number one way an identity thief gains personal information. And think about how easy it is for him or her to (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2009 - Identity theft is a definite threat to us all, effecting hundreds of people everyday across the globe. There are insurance policies that can be taken out in order to cover yourself against ID theft, but this may not be necessary, (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - Fast, safe, and reliable–the promise of money transfer companies. They have been popular because of the convenience in transferring money in almost any part of the world. A convenience being enjoyed by spammers as well. Recently, the Content Security team caught (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - In March 2009, we notified our customers on a new variant of the infamous Vundo trojan family which we detected as Ransom-F and raised its risk assessment to a Low-Profiled threat. It was possibly the first indicators of a shift in (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - Why should we commit identity theft prevention? Preventing is always better than curing, that is the answer. Bear in mind that even little clue you leave can result in a terrible problem if picked up by the identity (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - identity theft protectionThat nefarious identity thief wants you to let your guard down. He or she wants to use your personal information for his or her own gain. The sad truth is that this type of (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - identity thiefMost people associate identity theft victims with older individuals. This is true to a certain extent. But there are many identity theft and fraud victims who are minors. How can this be? It happens to (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - Swine Flu is in the news worldwide and search trends are spiking in North America:We're seeing lots of domains being registered. Here's (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - I opened my personal email this morning to find that an online scammer finally found my email address. Excited to see my name in the subject of the email, I opened it to find a message which started: Dear Rusty, My (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for May 2009. Today we released one security bulletin, MS09-017, affecting our PowerPoint products. This update addresses several vulnerabilities including the issue described in Microsoft Security Advisory 969136. In that (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - This TechCrunch article outlines how Hulu Networks, the rapidly growing purveyor of streaming HD content, is taking some fairly extreme steps to make sure that their content is only accessed by users in the US. Apparently anyone with an (continue reading...) Read more