Monthly Archives: April 2010

A spokesman for Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that legislation that would set up a $120 million Internet censorship system requiring ISPs to block pornography (and information about euthanasia) will not be introduced before Australia’s upcoming elections, possibly …

Our good friends at Sophos anti-virus company have released their tabulations of the geographic distribution of spam relaying computers. It isn’t news that the U.S. has the most (13.1 percent) but it IS big news that China has dropped off …

[Editor's note: communications have been restored] All Internet and land line communication at Sunbelt Software went down as of 10:15 a.m. today. Verizon and Time Warner Internet and land line service in most of Clearwater, Fla., has been blacked out …

When “doc” stands for “don’t open contents” Brian Ross, one of our Sunbelt malware removal specialists found this little gem – a malicious file that arrives as an attachment in spam and takes advantage of the newly-discovered launch vulnerability in …

Fixes WMS on Win2K server Microsoft has reissued Security Bulletin MS10-025 – the one it pulled last week. MS10-025 was aimed at fixing a vulnerability in Windows Media Services running on Windows 2000 Server that could allow remote code execution …

The Honeynet Project blog is carrying an article about a new botnet that appears to be a revival of the Storm Worm network that died out in 2007 — once one of the biggest on the Internet. They said Steven …

I came across a very interesting post by Peter Cochrane that should send shivers down the spine of anybody reading it. And if you are a security professional, I’d recommend grabbing the chair closest to you. It reads like the …

“Narcissistic Vulnerability Pimps” Is it just my perception or are there a diminishing number of good rants on the Internet? “Admin” on the Verizon Security Blog posted a really great one last week that deserves comment. “Admin” is David Kennedy …

“Finders keepers” isn’t exactly a legal concept Many bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confiscated computers, servers and other equipment, …

Make big money! $.80 to $1.20 per 1,000 People in China, Bangladesh and China are bidding on jobs solving CAPTCHAS so spammers can create new email accounts, but the work is a bit tedious, according to a story in the …