We know that spam works: well, it works well enough for spammers to keep devoting time and money into pumping sewage into...
The news broke a short time ago that pop star Michael Jackson died of a heart attack. It is all too predictable...
As Valentine’s Day is approaching the criminals behind Win32/Waledac have increased their activity. The Valentine campaign started some time ago but the...
You may have noticed that I’ve been making a lot of references to this over the past few weeks. You can now...
The top ten (twenty, twenty-five…) season doesn’t seem to have finished yet: the latest to cross my radar was something like seven...
You might have noticed that Conficker (Downadup) is actually standing up rather well to all the attention it’s receiving at the moment....
CNN reported that there a new sleeper virus out there. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/01/16/virus.downadup/index.html There is nothing sleepy about the Conficker worm, it is wide...
One of the security best practices is to back up your data regularly. This is sound advice as it helps mitigate the...
There are different techniques that can be used by a program to identify in which country it has been installed. It can...
This is bizarre, if slightly nostalgic. I spent a lot of time in the first half of this decade writing and presenting...
And finally… Don’t use cracked/pirated software! These are easy avenues for introducing malware into, or exploiting weaknesses in, a system. This also...
It occurs to me that I should make it clear that this “top ten” isn’t in any particular order. Like the other...
If sensitive information is stored on your hard drive (and if you don’t have -something- worth protecting on your system, you’re probably...
[Update info moved to new blog post on 6th January] In deference to all those old enough to get a panic attack...
Speaking of SANS, the Internet Storm Center has more than once talked about problems with digital photo frames, and at Xmas did...
Log on to your computer with an account that doesn’t have “Administrator” privileges, to reduce the likelihood and severity of damage from...
Yesterday, we started to receive reports of emails pretending to carry links to holiday cards. These emails contain a link that points...