Monthly Archives: December 2009

Jerome Segura, a Security Analyst at ParetoLogic of Victoria, B.C., Canada, just posted a nice piece on computer security practices with a different perspective in his “Malware Diaries” Blog. He begins his list of security tips by considering four classes …

Gunter Ollmann, VP of research for Damballa security firm in Atlanta, has blogged about the underground service industry that has sprung up to support botnet and malware groups. He found “botnet support” and “malware quality assurance” sites. There’s 24×7 support …

Hong Kong-headquartered security firm Network Box reported that an analysis of web-based threats showed that phishing doubled in a month, probably because of the number of potential victims — people shopping on line in December. Network Box said that its …

From a site that is hacked and serving phishes: What’s mildly interesting is the types of phishes — “speciality phishes” that are not your typical banking/finance scam. These are phishes that are highly targeted, in this case at email systems …

It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about the massive malware threat that every Internet user on the planet faces. …

Adam Lambert may have stolen the show, but Sunbelt Software was at the American Music Awards too.  You can see pictures here.  John-Erich Mantius, who runs global consumer software here, was representing us.  (Finally got around to blogging this, yeah, …

Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D. PC world said the botnet controlled 250,000 machines in a massive network that was responsible …

Cloud storage solutions allow users to access their files from virtually anywhere as long as an internet connection is available. The files are stored by the solution providers.  Usually the files stored in the cloud can be accessed via a …

Researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting, directed at the security community: Alex Eckelberry(with thanks to a researcher who prefers to remain anonymous)

We’re pleased to announce that all our mail server-based products, namely GFI FAXmaker, GFI MailSecurity, GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailArchiver, support Microsoft Exchange 2010. The new Exchange Server has been designed to help users achieve new levels of reliability and …