Monthly Archives: September 2009

Results of a recent survey showed that nearly half of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the US do not have the means to monitor or filter Internet traffic and employees’ online activity. These figures indicate that not only are …

A banking Trojan named URLZone (Finjan) exploits a hole in the major browsers on Windows machines to show victims a fake balance on their banking web site as it steals cash and sends it to the account of a money …

I have dealt with cyber crime in a number of previous posts, such as the 21st Century heists series. This post chronicles a recent event about some of the themes tackled in that series. Finjan has recently released a report about …

Patrick Jordan found this one today: The rogue Alpha AntiVirus page used to hijack a browser copies the Firefox warning screen: Looks like the Firefox warning page (in Internet Explorer), but with a difference. Clicking leads to this: Which goes …

Researchers in the Sunbelt Manila office have reported that the entire staff has been accounted for and flood waters are receding. Half the staff members are in their homes and unable to reach the office. The Sunbelt facility is on …

McAfee Avert Labs is advertising its Focus ’09 conference next month in Washington, D.C.. We find one of the 13 sessions offered on the agenda disturbing: Avert Labs — Malware Experience Join experts from McAfee Avert Labs and have a …

I’ve hemmed and hawed about saying anything about Microsoft Security Essentials. However, I’m getting requests as to my position on the issue. Generally, my feelings on MSE are as follows: It is not a Microsoft conspiracy to take over the …

MAX has visited Greece, Sicily, Malta, London, and even the Moon during the month of September. All those people who sent in their MAX photos are in for the chance of winning a fantastic SONY VAIO netbook! The first hundred …

Don’t go there: The Zeus Trojan is being spread through a major spam campaign under the guise of a notice from the IRS. Spam emails contain a subject line of “Notice of Underreported Income.” If users follow a link in …

Here at the Sunbelt headquarters in Tampa Bay, Florida, we’ve had limited contact with the staff in our research office in Manila, Philippines, about the flooding situation there from Tropical Storm Ondoy (also called Ketsana). Our Manila office is in …