The most common malware technique for avoiding detection is to create loads of “fresh” variants. Actually, the component that changes so frequently...
...one Yasuhiro Kawaguchi was arrested yesterday on suspicion of "saving a virus on his computer," though the story suggests distribution of malware...
It's something of a truism, that 'old viruses never die', and that certainly seems to be the case for some of the...
In a ComputerWorld article Gregg Kaiser cites a Microsoft engineer as saying that the trojan that Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply...
Android Smartphones are under attack again by rogue applications that once installed are reading information from the phone and sending it back...
Security companies in general and, unfortunately, anti-malware companies in particular, are often accused of ‘hyping’ threats because of a perceived self-interest. However,...
Yesterday the U.S. president, Barak Obama, held a conference at the White House to announce that the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama...
Aryeh Goretsky posted a blog about a trojan program in a Microsoft catalog update. I thought it might be a little interesting...
UPDATE #1 Randy Abrams has posted a follow-up article, Anatomy of a Biting Bunny – The Infected Microsoft Catalog Update with additional information...
It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by...
Now that cyberwarfare is out of the bottle, will anyone agree to not use it? In the summer of 1945 in New...
In my ever-widening circle of anti-cybercrime methodology this particular approach to attribution of the criminals looting the free world makes me particularly...
“Written in the form of a personal retrospective, this paper compares the earliest days of PC computer viruses with today’s threats, as...
The attacks from cybercriminals are now occurring in the online stock and equity trading world. Instead of simply emptying out compromised brokerage...
Ouch. This affects virtually everyone including Mac, Linux, and Windows users. More can be found here at the PSIRT site. And yes,...
In the survey, banks that were notifying consumers as quickly as possible or immediately across multiple channels performed well [and] they also...
Since the feed will be public and historic, there is a potential to research trends over the timeline, particularly as twitter is...
What would happen if every single one of the four BILLION cell phones on this planet just went dark? Or most likely,...
Better get your CFO to review UCC Article 4A and realign protocols with your business bank – The clear and present danger...
Earlier this month, we reported on the massive new Koobface campaign making the rounds through Facebook and how it tricked users into...
From time to time I hear people who don’t use antivirus software claim that it doesn’t matter, there isn’t anything of value...