January 14, 2009 - In the first security bulletin of the year 2009, MS09-001, Microsoft has published several critical updates which resolve 2 privately reported vulnerabilities and a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2009 - Paris Hilton is fashionable. This girl does a bit of everything, she’s a model, an actress, a singer... and she hasn’t only become the target of paparazzis but also of the computer attacks...Several months ago the image of Paris was (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2009 - Server virtualization will become a dominant factor in the next three to five years in an effort to reduce operating costs and simplify business. One highly popular trend is using virtualization for data center consolidation. Companies are consolidating everything from Web servers to the (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2009 - It isn’t a new malicious piece of code, but the content of an email in Portuguese I received in my inbox has sparked my curiosity. The aim of this email was to install a banking Trojan on my computer. (continue reading...) Read more
December 31, 2008 - We have just published the Annual report PandaLabs 2008. There, you can find statistics and information about the current situation of malware.In advance, regarding malware in the end of last Quarterly in 2008, Trojans continue being the most (continue reading...) Read more
December 31, 2008 - Today it is the last day of the year 2008 and all those cybercriminals who have a "great heart" want to wish us happy Christmas and a happy new year.So they are sending us a (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2008 - It is not that someone has hacked Sony CEO's house, we are talking about the Sony Playstation Home:Home is a virtual world for PlayStation 3 users, where they (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2008 - Today is not the second Tuesday of December, so we didn’t expect that Microsoft was going to publish any security bulletins until 2009. But given the circumstances and the severity of this vulnerability, Microsoft had no choice but to (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2008 - A couple of weeks ago, I was sent this screenshot, and it is something I want to share with you as Christmas time is so close. As you can see, Santa's Inbox is not so uncommon: you can see spam, scams, though (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2008 - The anual conference organized by the Association of antiVirus Researchers (AVAR) is taking place this week in New Delhi, India. Even though some people cancelled the trip due to the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai, (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2008 - In this last month Microsoft have been published eight new security bulletins as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates, those security updates fixed different vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2008 - A new rogueware site by Pandora Software appeared today. For those of you who do not know, Pandora Software is one of the rogue affiliate systems that produce the software for resellers to distribute. You (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2008 - Social networks have been an increasing way to distribute malware in 2008. And, according to our predictions, this will go on in 2009.In recent days we have seen a case with a new sample, W32/Boface.J.worm, very similar to what (continue reading...) Read more
December 4, 2008 - This is not the plot of one of the famous films of the James Bond saga, although some scam attempts deserve an Oscar. JYou have probably heard of the saying “unlucky at cards, (continue reading...) Read more
December 4, 2008 - Being the manager of this blog implies many things, one of them is the common pressure I receive from our lovely marketing team who wants me to publish every "advertisement" stuff, from reviews in magazines where we have great (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2008 - In previous posts, we have talked about tools to create malware, like Constructor/Turkojan, Constructor/Wormer and Constructor/YFakeCreator.And we have recently detected a new version of these malicious tools called Constructor/BitTera.C.This type of tools (continue reading...) Read more