Now here’s a piece of malware that is very clever, but in a scary sort of way.  Granted, it is malware, but you won’t know it unless you decide to check your online bank accounts.  When this malware discovers that you are at a bank site, it gets out of it’s dormant stage and starts […]

Pretty much everyone thinks of P2P networks as places where you can share media and files.  Granted, that is their intention, but what is the security like with them?  A lot of people will have the false misconception that they are ‘anonymous’ and that their information is kept private.  Well, for anyone who believes that, […]

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Triple-Barreled Trojan Attack Builds BotnetseWeek - […]

A lot of people out there may think that a programming language is a programming language and that they all have the capabilities of doing the same things.  While that is true to an extent, AT&T decided to really change this paradigm by creating a programming language strictly for mass surveillance.  You’ll probably not want […]

eWeek - Symantec representatives promised an improved repair engine late this quarter to address LSP-based malware. Each product we tested provides free enterprise management platform components bundled with client licenses. These platforms allow mature and
Commtouch tracks new mp3 blackmail spam dmnews.com - Steinberg Herson, VP of marketing at Commtouch. […]

According to this article, Vista has climbed past the 10% market share in the world of OSs.  Even with all of the complaining and annoyances people have shared towards Microsoft’s newest operating system, it seems to be doing well, but that is not what this is about.  Vista has reached the 10% market share level, […]

A study indicated that there have been at least 100,000 forms of malware created this year.  Even though there is still another month, the unfortunate thing is that this number is only going to grow in 2008, but is that really surprising.  Now that hacking has turned from a computer-enthusiasts hobby (on their own systems) […]

Talk about a career killer. Surprisingly, the mistake of losing sensitive information on 25 million people didn’t lead to this man getting fired, let alone receiving a decrease in pay. You would think being the cause of potentially the largest identity theft scare’s in Britian’ history with pretty much everyone in a panic. […]

Computerworld - That signifies a left tag, which tells Web sites and software to treat any text between it and a right tag character as executable code. This way, seemingly garbled text can hide malicious JavaScript commands that can do damage without having to
Enterprise SecurityBPM Today - Keys’ MySpace page has been […]

Yup, it’s one of the newest scams making its way across email addresses.  I would have to say though that this type of scam will probably get some of the biggest reactions, especially when it comes to the extremely paranoid.  The scam has to do with receiving an email from a ‘private investigator’ with an […]