- The FBI may shutdown the DNS servers victims of the DNS Changer malware have been using on March 8th. Is this a dangerous action, or is five months to clean up your PC enough? (continue reading...)
- You may not need pills to watch the super bowl but spammers feel that this definitely is an occasion to do so! The most exciting annual championship of the NFL - the Super Bowl XLVI (continue reading...)
- If you are planning to visit Europe these days or actually live here… get ready for some very cold weather and temperatures much lower than (continue reading...)
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Following the Dreamhost hack, that was revealed this week, many websites hosted by the company have been hijacked to redirect users to a Russian scam page.
I've identified hundreds (continue reading...)
- Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.
- Do you remember that time my husband clicked on scareware? Or that story I tell about before I started blogging for McAfee, the kids downloaded a virus onto the computer that we couldn’t get rid (continue reading...)
- Walter Sulym from the Cisco IPS team explains the signature retirement process and how the default configuration is determined.
- In response to recent reports that malicious apps may have made their way into the official Android Market, Google has responded by announcing a new program to more proactively scan the Market and developer accounts (continue reading...)
- The Super Bowl, the much-hyped championship American pro football game, will be broadcast this Sunday night to an estimated 200 million people. Any major (continue reading...)
- Today Google announced its Bouncer security service for the Android Market. This is a good initial step in protecting Android users.
Respect the Bouncer
To keep out known troublesome apps, the service performs a malware and (continue reading...)
- I recently read an article in Computerworld that really got me thinking about servers: what they are, what they do and what they hold. Traditionally, the insurance industry has offered risk protection from tangible (continue reading...)
- Google has pleasantly surprised the mobile malware research community when it announced yesterday that Android apps are analysed for malicious behavior before being allowed onto the Android Market, but is it all good news? Vanja (continue reading...)
- A fake CNN webpage is being linked to from Facebook users' status updates, claiming that World War III has begun.
But the real story is the malware waiting to infect your computer. (continue reading...)
- A recording of a confidential conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement officers at the Metropolitan Police has been released by Anonymous on the internet. (continue reading...)
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The video below is part 4 in our series of the top ten things you didn't know about Nessus and covers how to schedule scans from within Nessus: (continue reading...)
- Now here's something that you don't see everyday, a YouTube video in which a young woman advertises DDoS services, with a smile."Hello, Hackers." (continue reading...)
- For the fifth year now we are arranging a course on malware (malicious software) analysis in co-operation with Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. The first lecture is on January 18th by our Chief (continue reading...)
- Yesterday, we stumbled across this ad from an Android-related site:Clicking this led to a malicious Android Market. Note that this isn't the official (continue reading...)
- An Android application package (APK) can include multiple modules; one or more of these modules may be an advertisement SDK. That's pretty normal nowadays, as many Android developers currently use such modules to (continue reading...)
- Brod, a researcher on our Threat Research team has been tasked with tracking emerging Mac based threats. Microsoft Excel is one of the tools he uses to chart variants. From April to December (continue reading...)