This baby is definitely on the loose. Already being sent to over 160 domains, this worm is heavily spamming the Internet. Just a fellow reminder: if you happen to stumble on an email with the subject “Happy New Year!”, don’t open it.

Verisign is warning of a new worm that travels via e-mail […]

I found this to be interesting, yet a little amusing at the same time. It seems to be that Christmas decreases the levels at which botnet (and their operators) operate. Could it be because these spammers have holiday cheer, or could it be because they forgot to get gifts for others and did […]

Boy, I bet the people of Hollywood are pretty pissed off about this. If you have ever read “Darknet - Hollywood’s War against the Digital Generation” (which I personally recommend), you’ll understand why this is so amusing. In short, HD-DVD’s and BlueRay were obviously developed for higher-quality pictures, but they were also developed so that […]

With all of the parts and clauses that make up the Can-Spam Act, it seemed like it was doing a good job at controlling spam, but not anymore. I think it would be safe to say that the spammers of the world are giving the Can-Spam Act the finger by dramatically increasing their spam […]

Even with the widespread controversy about the new Vista flaw being sold on the Internet, Microsoft’s Security Response Center says it is nothing to worry about, for they still have not seen any attacks directed at the vulnerabilities.
I can’t help but to find humor in that statement. Microsoft’s Security Response Center says this Vista […]

This hacker may be in some deep trouble in the times ahead. According to the press, this 40 year old hacker was breaking into all sorts of military computers to try and find evidence that UFO’s really exist. I think the only evidence he found was the following:
1.) Guantanamo Bay really exists.
2.) Terrorist […]

2006 was pretty depressive when it comes to the computer security realm. Records have been shattered in terms of the spread of spam and malware, and it will probably only get worse as time goes on. In looking back on 2006, all that really needs to be said is this;
if your computer is […]

If you remember the famous “Whack-a-mole” game that was actually a trojan, you would have remembered how quickly it spread.  Well, it looks like hackers have used the same strategy, only this time it has a Christmas twist to it.
This time there are 2 files: Christmas_puzzle.exe, which is a camouflaged trojan using rootkit technology to […]

92.6%…
According to the security group Postini, that is the amount of email that shows up in people’s inboxes on average.
73%…
This is the increase of spam volume in the past three months.
Unfortunately, in the game of spam, it seems as if the bad guys are winning, for they continuously are developing new techniques to get their […]

Microsoft seems to be facing the dilemma of quality for their corporate customers. Corporations and other businesses that have purchased the new operating system are running into serious bugs, bugs which hackers are obviously taking advantage of. It’s reasons like this which make me not want to touch Vista for a good while.
Microsoft […]