Talk about using pop-culture to your advantage. With the newest Harry Potter movie released as well as the eager anticipation for the last book to come out, hackers developed a piece of malware specifically for all the Harry Potter fans. Since Harry Potter is such a worldwide phenomenon, this is a serious threat. […]

With MySpace being in the top 5 most visited sites on the Internet, it’s easy to understand why hackers and malware developers target it. This new MySpace worm tries to infect people by making them click on artificial MySpace profiles. Here’s a tip for all you MySpace users: if you notice that the […]

It looks like an email has been moving its way around people in regards to a Microsoft patch. Supposedly, ‘Microsoft’ is telling everyone that they need to update their computers with a critical patch… so critical that they have gone out of their way to email everyone with the appropriate Windows Operating System. […]

It’s strange to even see articles that talk about this topic. Currently though, it looks like this could definitely happen between Estonia and Russia. If a real war does break out between Estonia and Russia, then chances are similar things will happen in other places as well. The scary part is that […]

CNET News - Trend Micro Pre-Startup Scan runs before Windows Vista boots, ferreting out sleeping malware such as rootkits before engaging the operating system. Pre-Startup includes a system restore checkpoint, so that a user can always roll back any changes made
Businesses lack IM securityZDNet UK - The report advises organisations monitor, manage […]

I was pretty surprised about the risks at gas stations after I read this article. I had absolutely no idea how much information the gas station point-of-sale terminals collect when you use your credit card. Knowing this in addition to the fact of poorly-secured networks at gas stations can give sophisticated hackers an […]

With George Orwell’s book, 1984, it seems as if the topic of Big Brother is always popping up. Many people are curious as well as intimidated about new technological methods of monitoring services. Well, with this new technology, it almost seems as if the machines determine what is appropriate/inappropriate behavior. It may […]

Globe and Mail - There was evidence that anti-spyware software had expired on the schools network, but no evidence was allowed into evidence suggesting how malware may have entered her computer, through no fault of her own. Prosecution evidence that the
Mi5 Puts Bull’s-Eye on BotnetseWeek - Mi5 Networks has […]

Officially being considered the ‘financial’ capital of the world, I am actually surprised that we don’t hear about more people stealing financial assets from London. While this article discusses someone using a DoS attack to simply overload the London Stock Exchange website, it’s really interesting that you don’t hear about people’s stock portfolio’s getting […]

A lot of people consider hackers as people who are only interested in breaking into systems for financial gains. While that is definitely not the case, here is a perfect example. This person, known as ‘Gabriel’ states that he has broken into the Harry Potter Publisher’s network and stolen a digital copy of […]