Archive for December 8th, 2009

I’ve been saying this for a long time. P2P networks are have the risk of accidently getting something you really don’t want…Matthew White, of Sacramento, California, has found himself in a rather unfortunate situation; he's been accused of downlo... »

SC Magazine has published a great feature story on the Conficker Working Group, an industry task force that has made major strides damaging the command and control channels of the worm that has infected 6.5 million computers worldwide since 2008.The fe... »

(Dear Friends)Wonderful. Spam email in the Irish language: as usual the grammar was screwed up.Dermot Harnett, who wrote about it from the Symantec blog theorized that the verbiage was generated by translation software. “…the structure of the sente... »

Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for December 2009 As noted in our Advance Notification (ANS) last Thursday, for the December bulletin release we issued six security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities. Affected products include Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Office products. In the ANS, we also noted that the bulletin... »

Our analyst Adam Thomas came across this ugly new social engineering technique when he analyzed the DefenceLab rogue security product.It does the usual scare-ware stuff: a fake scan and fake “Windows Security Center” alert:Then it directs the poten... »

Rogue antispyware authors have been busy in recent days. The security software titles outlined below are phony, all a part of a scam designed to rip people off.Rogue antispyware uses fake security alerts and system warnings to frighten people into buyi... »

Rogue antispyware authors have been busy in recent days. The security software titles outlined below are phony, all a part of a scam designed to rip people off.Rogue antispyware uses fake security alerts and system warnings to frighten people into buyi... »