The City of Bozeman, Montana effectively joined the ranks of phishers when they asked job candidates for their usernames and passwords for...
When I first went to university at the end of the 1960s (yes, I really am that old, though not quite old...
Just last Saturday, June 6th; there was a new posting on the Full Disclosure mailing list from a source that calls themselves...
Some of you may have recently read of researchers discovering a botnet that is using Mac computers. Are you surprised? Well, perhaps...
We all have recently endured a week or so of extensive media hype about a worm called “Conficker”. Phrases such as “One...
When I write about Mac issues, I usually find myself abused by individuals convinced that there are no Mac viruses, never were...
I’ve mentioned here before that targeted malware, often delivered by “spear phishing” carried by apparently “harmless” documents such as PDFs, .DOCs and...
I just picked up a comment made today on a post Randy made about the comparative security of Macs and PCs. Since...
Someone raised an interesting point in a comment to yesterday’s blog about Symantec’s own PIFTS.EXE being flagged by their own firewall as...
I recently had the fantastic opportunity to participate on a panel discussion concerning cyber security. The event was hosted by the Bellevue...
As Valentine’s Day is approaching the criminals behind Win32/Waledac have increased their activity. The Valentine campaign started some time ago but the...
Back in January I blogged about a shortcoming of HIPAA. HIPAA legislation is, in part, supposed to help protect our privacy when...
Here at ESET we have just released our Global ThreatTrends report for January 2009. Not surprisingly, at the top of the list...
Well, this actually isn’t a lie, but a lot of what you read on the web are lies designed to steal money...
…no promise of chicks for free, but I did get spam this morning offering me a “Free-Trial kit” for some scheme for...
You may have noticed that I’ve been making a lot of references to this over the past few weeks. You can now...
Today is inauguration day in the USA. As I traveled to many countries late last year I was amazed at how joyous...
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...
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