I’m not saying all of my trips go horribly wrong, but exploding toilets, 1984 style televisions, badges that make no sense, surprises in alleyways and emergency fuel dumps could perhaps convince you otherwise. You’ll be pleased to know Rootcon 5 went off without a hitch (well, besides …

Have you already heard about the banner trick? Not yet? This is one of the latest sophisticated additions found in the Zeus malware configuration. This addition has been recently discovered, analyzed and reported by Trusteer. Malware such as Zeus place …

Since Monday there has been a bit of a deluge of Linkedin scam mails that redirect the end-user to Zeus data theft malware. It’s worth pointing out that these emails are still doing the rounds: Click to Enlarge In addition …

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 …

Ok. Just because they put out a news release, doesn’t make them legitimate.Our good friends over at PhishLabs drew our attention to this one: a rogue security product called Shield EC that is using mainstream public relations techniques to make …

Over the weekend, spam started appearing in mailboxes that claimed to be Imageshack registration notification. That’s great, but I hadn’t registered – and certainly not with that username / password combination. A quick Google for the Forsight domain (pre compromise) …

Sunbelt malware specialist Adam Thomas located a server being used as a drop for a Zbot/Zeus botnet. It contained over a gigabyte of text files of stolen information. Yes, it is just another Zeus botnet and a relatively small one …

Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 249 to 181 – including the six worse ones. Abuse.ch wrote: “As you can see …

Security blogger Brian Krebs on Friday wrote a column on the spreading infections from the Kneber botnet, which apparently caught a lot of peoples’ eyes. The question has come up “does VIPRE protect me against Kneber?” Kneber is simply a …

Herndon, Va., forensics firm NetWitness has said that the Zeus botnet has breached the networks of nearly 2,500 organizations in nearly 200 countries, including 10 U.S. federal agencies. NetWitness researchers said many victims are Fortune 500 companies in energy, finance …