Category: malware
apple’s java update addresses flashback – and more
Apple has been getting some grief over the past week or so for their handling of the “FlashBack” trojan which infected over 500,000 Mac users…
your printers may not explode, but they might give hackers entree into your networks
So, remember a few weeks back, when the tech press got really silly, warning us that hackers could set our HP printers on fire remotely?…
beware the thumb (drive) of doom
So, you just found a USB thumb drive that someone left behind on a bus/train/taxi/spaceship… read this article BEFORE you plug it in to your…
how malware gets in
The latest edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report provides some interesting analysis as to how computers get infected with malware. Microsoft’s dataset is pretty large,…
the 80 percent solution
According to a study published by Danish security vendor CSIS… When a Microsoft Windows machine gets infected by viruses/malware it does so mainly because users…
tdss/tdl4 malware – the arms race continues
Interesting analysis of yet another botnet… The malware detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus as TDSS is the most sophisticated threat today. TDSS uses a range of…
in which i dare disagree with security industry luminary bruce schneier
It’s not often that I disagree with Bruce Schneier, one of the leading lights of the security world… however, I do have a teensy weensy…
more sophisticated delivery = more successful malware attacks?
Lourdian Mosuela over at CommTouch Cafe had an interesting post about some foreign exchange themed malware today. The unsuspecting target receives what looks like a…
americans are more gullible in the morning…
…at least according to this interesting blog post from OpenDNS’ Allison Rhodes. It makes sense to me… in the AM, we are all going…
here… have a pill… what’s the worst that could happen?
Spear phishing has been in the news quite a bit lately – it seems like just about all of the recent high profile hacks began…
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