November 26, 2009 - It seems like most people who have gone to watch the Michael Jackson This Is It movie have told me that it is really worth watching.However, we are not too sure if Michael Jackson's Official (continue reading...) Read more
November 26, 2009 - The activities of the infamous Koobface botnet have been a frequent topic of discussion here at the Malware Blog. Some security analysts recently commented that the botnet has added a new tool to its arsenal as a new alleged (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - It is that time of year again, chestnuts are roasting, the dreidel will be spinning and everyone is going over the river to Grandma’s house. You know what that means? It is also the time for McAfee’s Twelve Scams (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Everyone knows about Patch Tuesday on the second Tuesday of the month, but it's less-known that Microsoft regularly releases non-security updates on the 4th Tuesday of the month. You might have noticed (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Google has announced improvements to their webmaster tools. These tools can be used by webmasters to work with Google, including when Google thinks your site is serving malware or phishing. We first (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Someone put up a fun site in October. The “Mystery Google” search page gives you the search results of the person who did a search before you. The results can be… ahem… interesting. I tried it out with the word (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Britain has stored the DNA profile of 5.9 million people, which is about 10 percent of the country’s population. It’s been estimate that as many as one million of those whose information is in the database since it was started (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - I was interviewed by the CBC last night. You can see it at about the seven minute mark here.Nothing stellar or exciting. Just me on Skype talking about malware and child porn. I think (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - It's become a sort of intermittent tradition here to upload buckets of screen shots of rogue antivirus programs. So here's a perspective for 2009, loaded on my Flickr account.Acknowldgement (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - The holiday shopping season will kick off in earnest on Friday – named “Black Friday” because that’s the date that many businesses traditionally go into the black for the year.Another tradition is an uptick in Internet fraud, scams (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - You don’t often (if ever) see emails asking for login credentials to a tiny (albeit respectable) college. Given that Hampshire College has under 2,000 students, one wonders exactly what the phishers are aiming for. (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Over the weekend the details of a new Internet Explorer vulnerability were posted online (as reported here and here). By crafting a malicious web page attackers are able to exploit the vulnerability and trigger remote code execution, (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Sunbelt is offering a Black Friday special for those of you anticipating those usual holiday-linked malware attacks: a single one-year subscription license for VIPRE for $9.95.Go to www.vipreantivirus.com/blackfriday to take advantage of this deal.Also, on (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - This is my fourth time to attend Xcon (the Xfocus Information Security Conference), and the third time as a speaker. Xcon is the biggest and most influential nongovernmental computer security technical conference in China. Actually for most Chinese security researchers (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPR Log (Press Release) Nov 23, 2009 Secret Service Investigation and Class Action Lawsuit Cast Shadow Over Radiant Systems and Louisiana DistributorAtlanta Company and Distributor Accused of Negligence in Widespread Identity Theft at RestaurantsATLANTA, November 23, 2009 Forensic (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of spammed messages that purported to come from Media Service. The email bears the subject, “Congratulations,” and informs users that they won a Macbook Air. It also entices users to open the attached (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Okay, I did just coin the term “AV Friday” as a joke and it’s not to be taken too seriously. So, what is AV Friday all about? Many people living in the U.S. will be familiar with the term (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - No matter how sophisticated security gets, we still need to handle the basics properly. One of the most basic tasks is to create and use secure passwords. You need them to log onto your computer, reach internal applications, and enter (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Our blog has been nominated in the 2009 ComputerWeekly.com IT blog awards.We're in the IT Security category.If you like us, you (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2009 - There's been a lot of talk about malicious software on jailbroken iPhones lately, but if you haven't been paying close attention, tech site Network World has a breakdown of the worms running wild and how (continue reading...) Read more