Malware

Beware fake IRS tax appeal notices

Beware Whitney Houston autopsy links on Facebook

When Hollywood tells hacker stories

Well, in this case, it's the BBC from an episode...

What the heck is a password honeypot?

Has your Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or Skype account ever been hacked? If so, you either have an extremely guessable password, or you gave hackers your login credentials by putting them into a password honeypot. What the heck is a password honeypot? Good question. Let me give you a bit of...

Beware fake iTunes gift certificate malware

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Celebrate International Kill-A-Zombie Day

Beware of Halloween tricks

The bad guys love to trick people into downloading their malicious garbage and will use just about any tactics to do so. It's Halloween season, so people will be searching for all kinds of scary stuff to decorate, dress up and generally celebrate the creepy. The hackers know this and have started...

Beware of Mebromi rootkit

This snippet from SANS NewsBites Vol. 13, No. 74, 16 September 2011:

Researchers have detected a rootkit that targets the BIOS, Master Boot Record (MBR), the kernel, and files of PCs. It has been at least four years since malware that focuses on BIOS has been found. Trojan.Mebromi adds...

Browsers: Who’s the safest of them all?

How safe is your web browser?...

Huge Spikes in Malware

According to the good folks over at Sunbelt Security (now owned by GFI), an incredible 73,000 new types of malware are being issued every day, a 26% increase over last year's figures. Between this and the recent security breach at Epsilon, I am noticing a huge increase in my own spam levels. One of...