December 14, 2010 - New trend in rogue security products Since last week the rogue security products (also called scareware) that we’ve posted on the GFI-Sunbelt Rogue Blog have had a new look. Instead of impersonating anti-virus products, these (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - We’ve begun to change the look of the GFI Labs (formerly Sunbelt) blog and we thought we’d give our alert readers some idea of what to expect. Last June Sunbelt Software was purchased by GFI Software and today (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - GFI Sandbox will help train future security professionals Chad Loeven, vice president of GFI's Advanced Technology Group, this week presented an installation of the GFI Sandbox tool to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2010 - Auto insurance site affiliate scam targets your Facebook friends In Facebook, it is important to think about who you give access to. If you give permission to scammers, your account then becomes their spam tool. (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2010 - Above, you can see a vaguely optimistic VirusTotal user summary in relation to a file that’s been doing the rounds for about a month or two. Here is the file in question: (continue reading...) Read more
December 6, 2010 - Search engine results have been poisoned for those looking for information about Mono Lake, the California lake where NASA researchers have found a form of bacteria that uses arsenic in its DNA in (continue reading...) Read more
December 6, 2010 - You might be seeing something on your Facebook wall today: Sadly, it’s not a fun video. It’s just a phish. The link goes to apps. facebook.com/ lookatuhah, which then redirects to (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2010 - Operator of (former) 10-billion spam per day MegaD botnet charged with CAN-SPAM violation Oleg Nikolaenko, 23, (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2010 - Hey, kids: every single game for free on Steam! (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2010 - Google has altered its rating algorithm in an effort to keep the web sites of bad businesses from achieving high search rankings because of widespread discussion of their offenses, according to a Google blog piece “Being bad to your (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2010 - Another site selling “memberships” for something that’s free Here’s the latest twist in the “membership” site scam: spam emails that tell potential victims to update their Adobe Reader include links to a web site intended (continue reading...) Read more
December 2, 2010 - You’ve locked down your computer. Nothing is going to bypass your privacy shielding programs. AdBlock is fully loaded, NoScript is ready to roll and RefControl is sending “Party on, Wayne” as your custom referrer to all and sundry. However, (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2010 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a preliminary staff report that lays out a framework for Internet privacy and suggests a “do not track” mechanism – possibly a persistent cookie installed on browsers. The agency was careful (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2010 - Nobody said Facebook app advertising had to be in good taste. In the pantheon of fabled people whose stories are used to attract Facebook users to survey/contest/quiz apps ($9.99 billed to your cell (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2010 - If you or your relatives wander onto a site claiming to be a genuine Kodak website, you might want to think twice before downloading any executables. Here’s an example of a site located at kodak-webgallery(dot)com, which is currently offline: (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2010 - You might want to steer clear of the following fake security program, being promoted as a “Windows Trojan Removal Kit” but actually hijacking your PC in the form of the ThinkPoint rogue with a mixed (24/43) detection rate. (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2010 - Just testing The Register is reporting a social engineering spoof by the group Scam Detectives who offered fake “Golden Tickets” to the royal wedding next April for £250 ($388 USD). There were 160 site visitors on (continue reading...) Read more
November 26, 2010 - Unfortunately it seems that the official site of the US Navy Memorial was recently compromised, with the addition of a particularly wordy message for the admins hidden away in a subdirectory, rather than the more obvious target of the (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2010 - When it comes to Two Point D’oh, do you want to be like this guy: Click to Enlarge Or do you want to be like this guy: (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2010 - On Black Friday, this year GFI Software will offer a single one-year subscription license to VIPRE for $9.95, 70 percent off the normal (continue reading...) Read more