For those who spend a lot of time behind Google, there are some new features to play with improve your efficiency at work. After a search results are presented, the “show options” control displays more ways to narrow your search …

The worst part about going to a mega-conference like Virus Bulletin 2009 is the vast amount of stuff there to see and do, all the food that you overeat and the late nights you spend drinking too much beer with …

Web surfers in search of news of California wild fires are being served up Trojan downloaders from malicious sites taking advantage of the high news profile of the situation. Steve Bass, who is near Altadena, Calif., sent us a note: …

Twenty four hours after the denial-of-service attack on Twitter, the web is just aglow with theories about what happened. There seems to be agreement that Twitter, which has been experiencing phenomenal growth in the last year, didn’t have the infrastructure …

Researchers have discovered that micro-blogging service Twitter is apparently working on a system for filtering malicious URLs, including shortened ones, but it’s a work in progress. We tried it. It’s a work in progress. Shortened URLs are handy in Twitter …

Our rogue software researcher Patrick (last name withheld to protect the innocent) goes to some strange places on the Internet pretty much on a daily basis. Recently he drew our attention to some interesting URL obfuscation: vvindows.com and google-rnail.com. Look …

Today isn’t a good time to go looking for that Erin Andrews “peep hole” video. There has been a boom in malicious spam, web sites and Twitter posts advertising a “peep hole” video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in …

Determining the fine line between security and usability is a hard task for everybody involved in IT security, from software developers to network administrators. The lack of balance between these two items is one of the main reasons that can …

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, boosted by $100 million in marketing, quickly grabbed a 16 percent market share and is second to Google now (at 71 percent). And the joke has started: Q: “What does ‘Bing’ stand for?”A: “But It’s …

We found two new rogue security products using the same name “Extra Antivirus” One of them belongs to the Virusdoctor family of rogue security products. This rogue uses the same site that was earlier used by Extra Antivir. Like its …