12/08/2008
DNS Trojan on the loose. . .
The cheeky folks at The Register bring us this news of a new Trojan DNS attack, DNSChanger that can compromise multiple different OSes. The upshot isn't that Mac and Linux/Unix users need to be worried per se, but that they should still be concerned if they're using DNS servers set... Read more
12/05/2008
Facebook Koobface virus
120,000,000 people use Facebook, and we're all being targeted by "Koobface" that leverages Facebook.com's instant messaging system to infect PCs. The target according to Yahoo? Your credit card numbers. Not surprisingly, the Koobface/Facebook story showed up on Yahoo! News today [editor's note: the article has been removed since this blog... Read more
12/04/2008
Connecticut Teacher - Spyware Trial
For anyone not tracking this spyware story, you should be. It's the tale of Julie Amero, 7th grade Connecticut substitute teacher. Ms. Amero had taken charge of a language class (not even hers, mind you, but that of another teacher) and wanted to integrate, as teachers are supposed to do,... Read more
12/01/2008
London Hospitals Hit by a Virus. (No, the Other Virus.)
PCWorld brings news today of a worm that hit three London hospitals in early 2005. Looks like almost three years on, the systems are nearly free of the Mytob worm that forced hospital administrators to shut down all PCs as a precaution. The virus update said of the three hospitals... Read more
11/24/2008
Symantec / Norton 60-day intro on Gateway & eMachines
A little bit of news in the anti virus arena showed up today at CNNMoney. Looks like Symantec has struck a deal with Gateway / eMachines for a Symantec / Norton 360 trial on Gateway & eMachines PCs. [Editor's note: since the page on CNNMoney is no longer available, the... Read more
11/21/2008
Morro: Microsoft's free anti-virus / anti-malware
Our friends in Redmond, Washington, are at it again. :-) Microsoft just announced their own free anti-malware / anti-virus software. cnet has full coverage of Microsoft's Morro anti-virus software and the general consensus amongst security industry companies seems to be a universal shrug. Here's what reps from some of the... Read more
11/20/2008
10 IT Security Companies worth Watching
Network World, long one of our favorite magazines / sites for all things network and security related, has a 5-page piece on a few of the many interesting computer security companies. Each company tries to tackle different challenges many of us face in computer and network security. All-in-all it's an... Read more
11/19/2008
Trojans in Microchips / CPUs?!
OK, we're normally a pretty computer security oriented lot around here, but a post we came across today at DailyArtisan.com has us even more concerned than normal. :-( Trojan Microchips from China is the theme, and if true, it's downright alarming. Even if only partially true, it should raise the... Read more
11/18/2008
Just what *is* Spyware?
Two terms we often hear bandied about out here in the ol' Interwebnets are: spyware and adware. We used to take the position that adware meant software that didn't steal personal information or "spy" on your Internet habits (namely by reporting them back to a central server) and that spyware... Read more
11/13/2008
Firefox 3.0.4 Released
Firefox, one of our favorite browsers, just released rolled out the latest version, 3.0.4. Here's the official release notes: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/releasenotes/ For a complete list of bugfixes check out: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?.... Here's a recap of what was fixed in this version... CRITICAL: MFSA 2008-55 Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager MFSA... Read more