November 18, 2010 - We currently have a stonking 150,000 active users of our free Mac anti-virus product, downloading updates from our servers. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition was launched on November (continue reading...) Read more
November 18, 2010 - After quite a few months of trying to raise public awareness of the problem of fake support cold-calling both here [and elsewhere, it's good to see other vendors also starting to publicize the issue. I've previously cited an article (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Do you remember when I told you about that time I logged on to a hotel’s free Wi-Fi and my firewall stopped someone from gaining access to my computer? Well I was reminded of that this week when a friend (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Adobe published out-of-band update APSB10-028 for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat for Windows and Mac OS X that addresses the 2 currently open 0-day vulnerabilities> The first vulnerability is in (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - In the past month, Symantec has observed a significant increase in spam messages, particularly in languages other than English, promoting online casinos and luxury product replicas. These spam messages are comprised of URL links using either URL-shortening or free Web-hosting (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - The Websense ThreatSeeker Network has detected a bad URL quickly spreading through Facebook today. Our customers were protected proactively against this threat by ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine. This is a classic social-engineering attack. The lure (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Did they get the idea for that graphic from the GFI blog? We’re wondering if the actors behind this one got the (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Firesheep highlighted once more, the problem of session sniffing. Users on open wireless networks are especially at risk when they login to websites without SSL encryption. But not all wireless networks are the same when it comes to sniffing (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - With the help of my trusty pink crayon, I'm going to explain how the "OMG! Looks What Happens When DAUGHTER and FATHER Meet on CHAT ROULETTE!!" scam works. First, you see a message looking something like the following on Facebook, posted (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - The security community is a very vocal and interactive bunch (if you haven’t figured that out already). We’re not afraid to share our ideas and opinions or to pass along best practices when it comes to the issues that impact (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - After several weeks of travel it's time for me to clear the Chet Chat backlog. I would like to thank everyone who attended my presentations at Texas A&M University, Anatomy of (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Ever noticed a magnifying glass next to your Google search results lately? It is actually a new service that Google launched last week called Instant Previews. This service allows users to see what a page looks like before (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Posted by Kate Fly Time to talk money. As we near the end of our 5th year of TippingPoint ZDI, it's a pleasure to report that we have made recent improvements to researcher payment time. In the past, payments took approximately (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Identity theft is a big concern for most Americans. I had my identity stolen in a small way many years ago. Although we found the criminal and had our money returned, we were dealing with the repercussions for months and (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - My prediction is that we are all going to become nostalgic for the days of fame-seeking mass mailers and network worms. Think of LoveLetter, SQL Slammer, and Melissa all crashing millions of systems within hours of being released into the (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - Yesterday, the news wires were hot with the announcement of the engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton. As ever with hot news stories, one thing is inevitable. It is (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2010 - At 15:54 GMT on April 8, 2010, McAfee detected a routing announcement from China’s state-controlled telecommunications company, China Telecom, which advertised 15 percent of the world’s Internet routes. For at least the next 18 minutes, until China Telecom (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2010 - Yesterday, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt presented the Nexus S. This wasn’t just about a new phone, he also talked about how Gingerbread (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2010 - We've just posted the second installment of our Cisco quarterly threat report covering the third quarter (July 1 - September 30, 2010). Where most threat reports focus on a specific vector (i.e. email, (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2010 - If you are reading this blog, you probably already know what Conficker is. If you don’t, then Conficker is one of the prominent viruses from last few years that continues to infect computers running Microsoft Windows through its (continue reading...) Read more