October 4, 2011 - This week there is an opportunity to meet members of the SophosLabs and Naked Security teams at the prestigious Virus Bulletin conference. Read more
October 3, 2011 - Today, we have some exciting news. Some of you may have already heard about it, because it is big!Starting today, we have implemented a partnership with Facebook, arguably the largest, most important platform on the globe, to better (continue reading...) Read more
October 3, 2011 - Beware of emails claiming that Apple has already announced the iPhone 5. You could be infecting your Windows computer with malware. Read more
October 3, 2011 - Viruses, spyware, worms and Trojans aren't just a Windows problem. Here's a short history of the Mac malware scene - from 1982 to the present day. Read more
October 2, 2011 - This week, Chet and Paul Ducklin discuss the interesting and important topics of the past week: fighting hi-tech crime, tackling the Kelihos botnet, taking on zombified home users, examining the risks of Amazon's new Silk tablet, and understanding the BEAST! (continue reading...) Read more
September 30, 2011 - Welcome back to Security 101. The topic of today’s blog is vulnerabilities. In our frequent McAfee Labs Threat Advisories you see the term vulnerability in almost every item. “A vulnerability has been found…” or “A vulnerability in some versions of…” are (continue reading...) Read more
September 29, 2011 - When testing the included unmanaged anti-virus in Windows 8 I ran across an odd quirk. It doesn't detect EICAR properly. I present my results and what to expect in this article. Read more
September 29, 2011 - An emerging information security threat highlighted this week by Róbert Lipovský, namely theft and abuse of digital certificates by malware creators, serves as a timely reminder that these certificates are highly valuable digital assets that should be accorded the (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - After Microsoft's shutdown of the Kelihos botnet on Monday some suggested it would slow down Mac malware purveyors. While the shutdown of the botnet and the cz.cc domain will help, it's only temporary. (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - Next week, I'll be talking at the Identity and Hi-Tech Crime Symposium 2011 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. There's still time for last-minute registrations at the event, so if you're in the region, why not join me there? (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - The quantity of data confronting us often makes it difficult to analyze and determine what's important. I recently saw a presentation using an Arduino to display real time network traffic that helped make sense of the chaos. (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2011 - If you're keen to download Firefox 7, please make sure that you download it from the correct website. Good advice as someone steals second place for "Firefox 7" in Google's search results. 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 - New stolen digital certificates are used by the multi-purpose backdoor Qbot. The criminals behind the Qbot trojan are certainly not inactive. As I mentioned in a blog post earlier this month, after a quiet summer we have seen a batch (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - In 1990, when only the government and a number of universities were using the Internet, there were 357 unique pieces of malware. The need for security began with desktop computing when the only means of compromising data was by inserting (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that the Cuevana.tv (hxxp://www.cuevana.tv) Web site was compromised on 25th September, 2011. Cuevana.tv is a very popular Spanish online TV Web site in South American, especially in Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama. Cuevana.tv has a (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - The MySQL.com website has been struck by cybercriminals, who hacked their way in to serve up malicious code to visiting computers. Simply visiting the home page of the website, initiated a Java exploit that downloaded and executed malicious code on visiting (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - It doesn’t surprise me to learn that 90% of all email sent today is SPAM. I rarely have to check my email. I look at my kid’s inbox and it seems higher because they never even check their SPAM folder, let (continue reading...) Read more
September 24, 2011 - The FBI believe that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front (PLF) associated with Anonymous hacktivism. See "Commander X" defending denial-of-service attacks in a TV news report. (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2011 - The US government is following in the footsteps of Germany, Japan and Australia by proposing that ISPs should attempt to detect botnet infected PCs and notify their owners. Read more… (continue reading...) Read more