NSS Labs has posted the results of its testing of the big six browsers for their ability to repel social engineering malware and phishing attacks. “The results are based upon empirically validated evidence gathered by NSS Labs during continuous 24×7 …

I spent most of last week in the UK to do the launch of the UK VIPRE, and this week, was a presenter at the Florida Venture Capital Conference. Now back in Tampa, and the weather is expected to hit …

Leopard (not to be confused with the Apple OS) is a really interesting program language for kids developed by Brandon Watts. It uses extremely simple methods to create highly complex programs, very useful for teaching the basics of programming to …

(Malvertisements are Flash ads that have been modified to redirect to a malware site. A malware author takes an ad (often a legitimate one) and then embeds malicious URLs into it, and then attempts to place the ad on various …

A new campaign currently running.  While it perhaps looks like visual poetry (inspired by Augusto de Campos?), it’s a cute trick to bypass filters.   If you select the text, you see something else: So, “Special Offers for Viagra and Cialis” …

Yup: The TSA is tightening its photo ID rules at airport security. Previously, people with expired IDs or who claimed to have lost their IDs were subjected to secondary screening. Then the Transportation Security Administration realized that meant someone on …

Apple just released a rather tome-like document on securing Leopard. It’s a good document, albeit certainly for the more advanced Mac user or system administrator. Link here (pdf). On a related note, the CIS security documentation for Leopard was released …

If you’re a bit confused about the recent Microsoft advisory on the Safari blended threat, you’re probably not the only one. Microsoft’s advisory speaks of a threat that “allows remote code execution”. However, if you review the work of Nitesh …

You’ve probably heard of the current problem with Safari running under Windows. It’s basically a trivial method to “carpet bomb” a users desktop (or other folder) with files. Now, as far as I can tell, it’s not a way to …

Phishers are going after all kinds of odd-and-ends these days.  What’s happened is that the big guys (Chase, Bank of America, Paypal, etc.) have been phished to death.  The phishers are looking around for any new stuff. For quite a …