Monthly Archives: July 2009

One of our rogue researchers from the seventh-floor caves brought this to my attention today. It’s an advertisement for mobile device texting spyware sold by some Russian folks we’ve known for a long time. They’re also the folks who bring …

As an update to my May post on Andreas Marx’s chart on the growth of malware, here are the latest stats from AV-Test.org. Unique samples added by month: Total number of unique samples in the AV-Test zoo: According to Marx, …

I often have to explain targeted attacks to people, but having examples makes the task much easier.  To that end, our friends over at F-Secure have put together a collection screen shots of various “bait” files — files that when …

Adobe is reporting yet another “potential vulnerability” affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Flash Player 9 and 10 and is “investigating this potential issue.” (their blog post here.) Malicious Flash files can be embedded in PDF documents which can …

Bill Emerick, formerly VP of Product Management for Sophos, has joined Sunbelt, as VP of Product Management and Operations.  We’re thrilled to have him on the team. Welcome aboard, Bill. Incidentally, we’re growing very fast and hiring for a broad …

One of the good folks over at Kaspersky Lab, Yury Namestnikov, has written a great white paper about the worldwide botnet “industry.” The story was picked up by Computer Weekly which did a good summary of it. The financial “highlights” …

July 22nd 2009 - Steve Ballmer signed off the RTM builds for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at the annual sales kick-off event in Atlanta. This is big news for us all at GFI. Video of signing: Windows …

GFI Software is giving ONE lucky person the chance to win an amazing PlayStation 3! The rules are simple and winning is just a tweet away. All you need to do is: follow @GFISoftware on Twitter express your desire to …

Police in Queensland, Australia, are doing an electronic version or rattling the doorknobs – they’re war driving, looking for unsecured home WiFi connections. Queensland Detective Superintendent Brian Hay said “All unsecured WiFi networks out there are open for exploitation by …

Today isn’t a good time to go looking for that Erin Andrews “peep hole” video. There has been a boom in malicious spam, web sites and Twitter posts advertising a “peep hole” video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in …