Monthly Archives: August 2010

August 25: We crossed the finish line last night at 7pm.  We are pretty excited to finally be here. The team have reached their destination and made it to Mongolia in one piece on August 25, 2010 at 19:00 (local …

GFI Software Wins Six Best Channel Product Awards We’ve been awarded six Best Channel Product awards from Business Solutions Magazine in the August issue of the publication. GFI received recognition for the strength of its channel products in the DLP …

Common reasons why content updates fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 1 of 3)There can be various reasons why one or more GFI MailEssentials Anti-Spam modules may fail to download the latest updates files or to update the local engines of …

Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the “DLL preloading attacks” and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of libraries from remote network or WebDAV shares. This tool can be configured to disallow insecure loading …

Dude! Chill! EVERYBODY wants to shoot them! A variety of news outlets are reporting an incident in Salt Lake City in which an employee of a mortgage company allegedly got drunk at a concert, returned to his office and put …

I’ve been seeing a lot of questions pop up in relation to a website involving a “free Pokemon MMORPG”. Click to Enlarge Shall we take a look? The site in question is (of course) pokemon(dot)awesomefreegames(dot)net. You’re promised an awesome MMORPG …

Email Archiving has been around for quite a while now and according to a 2009 study (The Radicati Group “E-Mail Archiving Market, 2009-2013“) the market is predicted to grow from $2.1 billion back in 2009 to over $5.1 billion by …

You get to choose your poison. A Trojan that pretends to be a Microsoft security function is popping up something new. Basically, it mimics the idea of VirusTotal, ( http://www.virustotal.com/ ) a site which enables you to see how 40 …

Our alert analyst Adam found this one, although we don’t know why he was doing web searches for “Miss Universe 2010.” He clicked on one, expecting to see long legs. Instead, he saw this pop up: (click image to enlarge) …

Recently I was reading a very interesting article in a newspaper about the importance of web security in online banking. The editor reported about an incident that affected approximately 3000 personal bank accounts which caused damages of around £675,000 in …