12/29/2009
Mega-D Spam Botnet Disabled
Score 1 for the good guys! PCWorld bring news of how security company FireEye brought down the Mega-D Botnet, one of the most notorious spam spewing botnets to date. Atif Mushtaq, a FireEye researcher, spent two years working to keep their clients' networks free of the dreaded malware, and in... Read more
12/03/2009
Cameroon Domains (.cm) Most Likely to Host Malware
An interesting post yesterday on malware statistics at The Register caught my eye: more than one in three (36.7 per cent) of domains registered in the West African country hosting viruses or malicious code. Cameroon domains are those that end in .cm and are easily arrived at as keyboard typos.... Read more
11/24/2009
51 Month Prison Sentence for Spammer Ralsky
Few things get the ire of computer folks more than spammers. Even spammers hate getting spam. What's even worse than spam though is when nefarious techniques including using zobmie PCs (those computers whose security has been compromised by a trojan, worm, or virus to do their bidding, typically without the... Read more
11/22/2009
Vulnerabilities Discovered in Internet Explorer
In a recent post to its security blog Symantec, makers of Norton antivirus revealed, a new exploit targeting Internet Explorer was published to the BugTraq mailing list yesterday. Symantec has conducted further tests and confirmed that it affects Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 as well. The announcement of the... Read more
11/19/2009
Arrests Made for ZBot / Zeus Trojan
Police in Manchester, England, arrested two people in connection with the Zbot Trojans. If you're unfamiliar with the ZBot Trojan, also called "Zeus," it's a nasty bugger that was responsible for over $415,000 being stolen from a Kentucky county's bank account earlier in 2009. But that's not all it's known... Read more
11/16/2009
November 2009 Microsoft Patches Several Programs
With the November 2009 Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," as it's called, there were a number of important security exploits that were dealt with. If you haven't recently updated your Windows OS, we urge you to do so now. Here's one way to to so: Open Internet Explorer Click Tools Windows Update... Read more
11/05/2009
Critical Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player
Let's cut to the chase: patch your Adobe Shockwave. There are four different critical vulnerabilities in the Adobe Shockwave Player that lets an attacker remotely execute the code of their choosing on your PC. Download Adobe Shockwave Vulnerability Cause Why It Matters an invalid index when handling certain Shockwave content... Read more
11/04/2009
Windows 7 Virus Vulnerabilities: Is It Getting Better?
There's a lot of hoopla about how much better Windows 7 is than prior versions at keeping viruses and other malware at bay and keeping people safe online. What's the reality though? Are the default settings in the Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) all that's needed to protect your... Read more
11/02/2009
Virus Writers Turning to Online Games
A great piece today from the BBC's technology section called, Video gamers face malware deluge talks about the latest computer security / virus threats. What may seem strange to some is that one of the main purposes of these viruses is to steal the game players online credentials (i.e. their... Read more
10/30/2009
Conficker: 1 Year Later, 7 Million Infected
"'The only thing I can guess at is the person who created this is scared,' said Eric Sites, chief technology officer with Sunbelt Software and a member of the working group. "'This thing has cost so many companies and people money to get fixed, if they ever find the guys... Read more