Monthly Archives: February 2010

If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this. The Register – which is worth reading twice a day for its insanely funny headlines if nothing else – is reporting that a hacker (hacktivist?), …

People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV software). Our (environmentally conscious) researcher Adam Thomas heard about a “green” hot water heater that …

VirusTotal.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal.com ] is a brilliant site that helps both public and researchers alike determine if an executable file they have is potentially malicious or not. Julio Canto (of VirusTotal fame) has noticed that somebody decided to cash in  on …

Very funny: The story starts with an guy insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being …

“Operation b49″ Tim Cranton, Microsoft’s associate general counsel posted on the company’s official blog early this morning that Microsoft has shut down the Waledac botnet. He wrote: “On February 22, in response to a complaint filed by Microsoft (“Microsoft Corporation …

Be careful if you’re using Twitter Search to find topics of interest, as multiple spambots are pasting links to rogue antivirus sites all over the place at the moment. Example: It goes without saying that the icons used for said …

Earlier in the year we ran a survey on RMM Software, this is the software IT Company’s/MSP’s use to run their technical operations. What emerged were a few very revealing results on the software itself: Only 4% report they use …

(Swell tee-shirt available too!)Thanks to Bruce Schneier for drawing attention to this one on his blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/remotely_spying.html A security researcher named Stryde Hax has blogged about his research into the public-facing web presence of Mike Perbix, a network technician at …

I love this U.S. Geological Survey site web site and I just have to do a blog piece about it. I guess we could use the topic of “denial of availability risk” as the computer security category. It’s kind of …

You know what would be a bad file to run on your PC? This: (Translation: “give it a name (that you want)” in a southern Slavic language, probably Croatian.) Hailing from somewhere in the Balkans – and called “Best Virus”, …