Google – the new playground of malware scum

It's bad enough when regular sites get hijacked by people who want to fill your computer with all kinds of spyware and other assorted types of malware but when they start manipulating Google search results I think ... continue

Swarm intelligence for cutting edge cyber security

In the battle to keep computer networks safe we are use to using tools like resourcing hogging anti-virus and other malware scanning methods. The problem is that in many cases this is more like ... continue

Rogue ad battle at New York Times

According to Steven Musil at cnet Security The New York Times is in the midst of a battle to get rid of a what they are terming “an unauthorized advertisement”. In typical fashion ... continue

Linux not so pure and safe after all

For almost as long as there has been OS wars the mantra of the penguin herders has been that the likelihood of Linux ever being vulnerable to tings like viruses and trojans was next ... continue

OS X’s changing security landscape

There’s a lot of talk going on in the tech blogosphere about the newest release of OS X, Snow Leopard, coming to market with a built-in malware scanner. Now that it has shipped we ... continue

Snow Leopard ships with malware blocker (Wha??)

After years of lording over Windows the fact that Mac OS X doesn’t, or couldn’t get attacked by malware Apple’s next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is being shipped with as malware blocker. ... continue

Malware served up based on operating system

While the stick yer head segment of Mac users will almost certainly find some reason to spout their typical rhetoric about Mac’s being impervious to viruses, trojans and other such evil goodies that isn’t ... continue

Twitter has your back as it begins blocking nasty URLs

One of the biggest dangers surfers are facing on the web these days is the incredible proliferation of URL shortening services like TinyUrl, bit.ly, and countless more. While they do provide a valuable service ... continue

About that Erin Andrews video that just installed a trojan

Remember back the other day when Paul posted about the peep show video of ESPN hottie Erin Andrews hitting the web? Well it appears that the malware authors have discovered it as well ... continue

Malware peddlers prey on celebrity death frenzies

In the wake of the internet's biggest day since the September 11th attacks, purveyors of spam and malware have been having a field day with copious morbid web searches driving traffic to their sites. Searches surrounding the circumstances ... continue

Way to go Guy Kawasaki, thanks for the malware tweet

Wow, makes me almost glad that I don’t follow Mr. Kawasaki on Twitter, unlike Guy’s other 139,000 followers who were left open to a possible malware threat from one of his automated tweets. According to the report ... continue

Microsoft Morro: free Anti-Virus coming soon and a bit of a rant

Word has been leaking like a sieve around the web that Microsoft is going to be soon releasing its own free anti-virus software codenamed, for now, Morro. The software is apparently being tested extensively ... continue