February 3, 2012 - 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. Read more
December 23, 2011 - Exactly how people will abuse digital technology for their own ends is difficult to predict, but organizations must plan ahead to protect data and systems. That's why we have been posting our "best guess" cybersecurity predictions on the Threat Blog (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - If you've been following this blog for a few years, you probably know that I'm reluctant to play the prediction game, but it seems to be expected at this time of year, so here's my contribution. Java will consolidate its (continue reading...) Read more
December 4, 2011 - In recent years there has been a tremendous increase in the Russian region in the number of sites redirecting users to the Black Hole exploit kit. In most cases, successful exploitation of a vulnerability in client software leads to the (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - Old hoaxes never die. They just get transplanted to Facebook. Sometimes literally, when a classic email hoax starts to spread with minor emendations through Facebook message or news feeds. In this case, the actual message (at least, as I received (continue reading...) Read more
November 12, 2011 - Think you are a security aware computer user, but still get occasional security alerts and pop-ups? Follow these tips to help keep your Mac or PC clean as a whistle. Read more
October 25, 2011 - Enjoy the latest security news in brief by watching 60 Second Security! This episode: the German Bundestrojaner controversy, Sony breached (again!), Duqu dubbed "Son of Stuxnet", OS X anti-anti-virus and Microsoft videos hacked. (continue reading...) Read more
October 19, 2011 - Mac users have once again been reminded not to be complacent about the malware threat, with the discovery that cybercriminals have enhanced an existing Trojan horse to disable the rudimentary anti-virus protection Apple has built into Mac OS X. (continue reading...) Read more
October 6, 2011 - Adobe released Flash Player 11 this week, so I sat down with Brad Arkin from Adobe to discuss the new security and privacy features and the general security landscape surrounding Adobe Reader. (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - Mac users are once again being reminded to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date, following the discovery of a Trojan horse that poses as an update to Adobe Flash. Read more
September 27, 2011 - A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion (10.7) has been detected by Intego. The threat is a trojan, dubbed Flashback, installed via a fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site. As with the MacDefender and Revir (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2011 - Adobe has released a critical update for its widely-used Flash Player software to protect against six vulnerabilities. At least one of these flaws has been exploited in the wild during targeted attacks. Read (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - Microsoft released 13 bulletins today, which is quite large for a summer Patch Tuesday, but only two of these bulletins were critical. There are nine rated (continue reading...) Read more
July 24, 2011 - Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus? Some recent news stories seem to suggest that they might. One uncompromising headline certainly implies (continue reading...) Read more
June 28, 2011 - When analysing malware you are most likely to encounter samples which use all kinds of obfuscation in order to hide from antivirus software that protects your computer. This is also true for malware written in flash (more specifically, (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - Adobe has released its latest batch of quarterly security updates covering Flash, Shockwave, Reader, Acrobat, ColdFusion, LifeCycle and Blaze. After only 9 days, another zero-day exploit has been fixed in Adobe (continue reading...) Read more
June 12, 2011 - In this week's Chet Chat, Rich Baldry joins me to discuss the future of Mac threats and how many threats are not platform specific. Rich (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2011 - Adobe released a security advisory warning the users of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Versions 10.2.152.33 and earlier. An exploit targeting this vulnerability was embedded inside Microsoft Excel documents and was used to deliver the malicious code to (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2011 - Last Friday Adobe published the patch for the critical 0-day vulnerability in their Flash Player. It had been disclosed early last week as being used in attacks on machines in the (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2011 - As expected, today Microsoft and Adobe published updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, (continue reading...) Read more