Ahh… and you wonder where your tax dollars go. For the unfortunate citizens of Michigan, their tax dollars were assisting Nigerian Fraud Scams, thanks to the former treasurer of Alcona County. Talk about irony… people state that they hate spam with a passion, yet the people of Michigan are providing the spammers with fundingv(without […]

If you are unfamiliar with this whole incident, it was pretty depressing to hear about. With all of the flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, lots of people started to set up their own Katrina funds to help pay for the damages. Some of these funds were legitimate, others weren’t. Lawanda […]

While this article really does cover a wide array of different products both in the software and hardware sector, what is interesting are the picks under the security section. It looks as though Norton 2007 took beset security suite, which I personally think is a shame. Like always, it was a fight between […]

According to a study conducted by an Atlanta Prevention Lab, over 70% of all attacks performed in December 2006 were because of a single hacking tool. This hacking tool provides a wide array of functionality as well as hosts a large quantity of vulnerabilities to exploit. Could more tools like this be coming […]

Sophos recently did a study which indicated that the United States (34.2%) and China (31%) hosted almost two-thirds of all security threats from last year. That’s pretty scary, especially with the fact that the next runner up for most security threats was Russia… with 9.5%. Talk about a dramatic leap. The […]

Well, this can’t be a good thing. If this so-called ’secret’ meeting has been released in the media, chances are hackers and the like are trying to find its whereabouts as I write this. The goal of the meeting is pretty simple, eliminate the various threats that are sprouting up now and in […]

While this is considered the largest IT scam ever performed against an online Swedish bank, it sounds like there was quite a large group involved. While only one Trojan was used to acquire the money from various bank accounts, seven people have been arrested and 121 other suspects are being held for questioning of […]

There’s a new email surfacing in people’s inboxes and it ain’t pretty. Considered as the Storm Trojan, it tried to lure people into opening attachments with extremely enticing names. So far, it seems to be pretty successful. Just remember, if you do happen to stumble into any news stories that are in […]

This is exactly why the spice company McCormick was constantly raided by an evolved form of the Blaster Worm. Let’s just say it liked to work with printers…
The Blaster worm hit McCormick and Co. hard and fast. It entered the famous spice company through a service provider connection and ripped across plants and offices […]

All I can say is thank goodness. Especially with the personal version of Vista, it would have been nothing short of disastrous if there were only a couple of anti-virus solutions. Why? Well, if there were only a couple of options avaiable, all the hackers would have to do is evaluate the […]