Even though this article was published on Valentines Day, you can’t help but to think that thieves are still getting victims to fall for this tactic.  Yeah, you guessed it… it’s the ol’ infected ecard trick.  Heck I’ll be honest, I received a few of them myself.  Fortunately, they went to a couple of my […]

Here’s an interesting article: it talks about this new sophisticated Trojan that hides itself by propagating to digital storage devices, including digital frames.  While the Trojan’s intentions are to steal passwords, it really made me think about the idea of Trojans in digital frames.  You know that sooner or later there are going to be […]

When you think about it, 2007 really allowed malware developers to experiment with a wide variety of new mediums.  While pre-2007 had a heavy emphasis of exploiting the user, 2007 really allowed these developers to exploit the code rather than the user.  After all, the continual blossoming of social networks and videos have really allowed […]

You can’t help but to think back to the times when Al Capone really owned the streets.  For all of the criminal activities he was a part of, the one thing that got him into prison was tax evasion… I mean, seriously?  Well, it looks like Japan is going through a similar event.  For the […]

This is a pretty interesting article discussing malware developers and how they have ‘migrated’, so to speak.  Initially tracking the trends from 1986, it not only discusses how where they have primarily moved to, but it also discusses how their ‘ethics’ have evolved.  Starting as mere hobbyists and tech junkies, it has now turning to […]

Everyone is pretty much knows that malware can come from various digital sources such as web pages and email, but have you ever thought about malware coming from other consumer electronics?  Granted, there is the whole realm of mobile malware and the like, but there have been reports stating that photo frames (those picture frames […]

This has been an irony that has pretty much been happening since the birth of spyware.  I have seen instances of this on many people’s computers, and chances are many people fall to this scam on a daily basis.  The best thing you can do to seriously prevent spyware is to only stick with trusted […]

More malicious code has been developed that when inserted into a MySpace page, it tricks the user into downloading malware as a masqueraded Microsoft Update.  While this may seem like an easy thing to spot, it really isn’t, especially when your mind is focusing on other things such new Comments or Messages on your MySpace […]

One of the biggest trends hackers did last year was the idea of compromising legitimate web sites and inserting malicious code into them.  This has made it all the more difficult to determine truly legitimate sites versus sites that have been compromised, but were built with a legitimate intent.  Well, you can assume that this […]

I don’t know if the developer of this Trojan has lost their mind, but they created something that could be very crippling to the Google empire.  By creating a Trojan that replaces Google ads from another source, it is literally disabling one of Google’s primary income streams.  Chances are this Trojan will not last for […]