Archive for July 23rd, 2009

I often have to explain targeted attacks to people, but having examples makes the task much easier.  To that end, our friends over at F-Secure have put together a collection screen shots of various “bait” files — files that when ... »

Bill Emerick, formerly VP of Product Management for Sophos, has joined Sunbelt, as VP of Product Management and Operations.  We’re thrilled to have him on the team. Welcome aboard, Bill. Incidentally, we’re growing very fast and hiring... »

Adobe is reporting yet another “potential vulnerability” affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Flash Player 9 and 10 and is “investigating this potential issue.” (their blog post here.)Malicious Flash files can be embedded in PDF documen... »

One of the good folks over at Kaspersky Lab, Yury Namestnikov, has written a great white paper about the worldwide botnet “industry.” The story was picked up by Computer Weekly which did a good summary of it.The financial “highlights” of the il... »