Spam messages exploiting the publicity surrounding the release of the latest installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise are being used to trick users into installing Trojan horse malware. via TechNudge
“Compare this simple action with likely commercial damage that will undoubtedly occur if nothing is done”
CORPORATE Scotland has been warned that it could be hit by exactly the same sort of cyber criminal attack that brought state and commercial website systems crashing to a halt over 1,000 miles away in Estonia. via Scotsman.com
Join renowned spyware researcher and Sunbelt’s Director of Malware Research, Eric Howes, for an engaging discussion on the scope of the spyware problem. via Sunbeltblog
“We have to do what we can to work in this arena”
Small and mid-size businesses often don’t have the resources to protect business computers from spyware and other malicious code. via Inc. Magazine
“These are not victimless offences, the images you viewed were not pictures or diagrams. “They were real children subject to this indignity and abuse in order that people can get some sort of pleasure or sexual titillation.”
A COMPUTER virus inadvertently helped police to catch a paedophile who accessed thousands of child porn images. via The Northern Echo
Serial Logger Service 1.21e Serial Logger Service is a Windows NT/2000/XP service that records all data received on a serial port to a file on a disk or to an ODBC database. via Softpedia
“Reputation is based on data and the breadth of data is the key in making accurate decisions about security threats”
IronPort — also known as Cisco’s latest acquisition — has launched an updated version of its SenderBase.org traffic monitoring site, which serves as a free online malware and spam resource for IT … via Infoworld
“Companies will block applications under the category ’streaming media’ rather specifically block YouTube or XMRadio.com, although this does ultimately block access to those sites”
When the Defense Department recently such as MySpace , YouTube, and 11 others, it cited bandwidth constraints and security concerns as the primary criteria. via InformationWeek
“As they use more sophisticated things to hide their malware, your detection has to become better and better.”
First came the virus. Then came the antivirus software. Ever since, virus programmers have been escalating their technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the computer security engineers and vice versa. via PhysOrg Weblog
Morning, everyone. I know Wormblog has been very, very silent lately as I’ve been very busy with work. via Worm blog
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