Two years ago, in front of a standing-room only crowd here at Black Hat, we introduced three new information sharing programs as well as the concept of Community-Based Defense. The underlying concept shared by all three programs was simple-collaboration will be key to preventing and defending against online crime going forward; no one company,... »

The Register is reporting that police in Slovenia have arrested a 23-year-old man, who went by the handle Iserdo, and charged him with writing and selling the code that has been used to create the Mariposa botnet.Iserdo and two other suspects were take... »

There are large amounts of videos on Youtube right now advertising a site called Bestpadmedia(dot)com. Although some are being whacked by Youtube due to “terms of use violation” there’s still a lot of them online. The videos claim the site a... »

The spam bucket is a great place to go looking for net ugliness. And when you’re in this business, that’s business as usual. Here’s a new one:Today we checked out a spam email contained random letters and characters and a link in the middle of th... »

Congressional staffers have posted a very well-written summary of the two Internet privacy bills working their way through the U.S. Congress. It provides a nice birds-eye-view of what the two bills are trying to accomplish without the usual reams of su... »