Monthly Archives: September 2009

DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544 Another day, another example exposing the fragile human security in an organization. Malware writers and spammers greatly depend on disguising their payload as innocent messages or software, which may even pretend to be offering a form …

Robert X. Cringely’s blog “Notes from the Field” carried a piece under that head today. Cringely (is that his real name?) has a writing style that can only be described as a breathless, rapid-fire series of snarls. I appears that …

The worst part about going to a mega-conference like Virus Bulletin 2009 is the vast amount of stuff there to see and do, all the food that you overeat and the late nights you spend drinking too much beer with …

A while ago I wrote a series of articles about theft in the modern age that provided an in-depth account on how malicious people were stealing using technology in the modern age. I recently came across a very interesting article by Jacqui …

VIPRE® with lifetime license, $99.99. See HSN.COM video here. Tom Kelchner

“Mystic Compressor…Greetings to Sunbelt – only they know my name ” What this means: 1. Somebody wrote the Trust Warrior rogue and distributed it.2. Sunbelt researchers analyzed it and put it into VIPRE signatures earlier this month, calling it “Trust …

I work in marketing (I think? Or I did and nobody has told me otherwise) for a Software Company. They provide software to help run IT Companies, or as they seem to be known (in some cases) Managed Service Providers! …

There were three stories today with interesting variations on familiar themes: 1. Razer USA, maker of popular gaming accessories, discovered that its web site had been compromised and visitors who were trying to download mouse or keyboard drivers were getting …

Recent figures put Microsoft IIS as the second most popular web server on the internet, second only to the Apache HTTP Server. It is therefore of no surprise that following the Apache site breach on 28th September ’09, it was …

The Internet has put an incredible amount of power, for good or ill, in the hands of anyone who can operate a computer. Occasionally there is a news story about that power that just makes your jaw drop. A Connecticut …