Antivirus is 30 years old

Apr 13, 2012 9:46:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Vaccine"][/caption] Simon Edwards created a great blog post about this April 12, 2012. He started out with: " Once upon a time, ...

Blast from the Antivirus Past

Apr 12, 2012 9:08:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="MS DOS 6.0"][/caption] Remember MS-DOS Version 6? It was released March 1993. The new 6.0 had a lot of new stuff including a basic ...

Video: How a crimepack works

Apr 12, 2012 5:37:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are as organized and industrious as any legitimate business. Case in point: exploit kits, also known as crimepacks, which bad guys can purchase and which make infecting ...

SMS-controlled Malware Hijacks Android Phones

Apr 11, 2012 4:25:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things ...

99 Percent Of Malicious Action Starts On Workstations

Apr 9, 2012 10:43:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Roger Grimes made this remark on InfoWorld when he commented on the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report that was released last week. What he said was: "You should enable event ...

AV Vendor claims 600,000 Infected Macs in Botnet

Apr 6, 2012 1:51:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The CSO website reported: "A Mac trojan horse spotted by security analysts since last year has infected more than 600,000 Apple computers, says Dr. Web, a Russian antivirus vendor. Apple ...

Remove Hidden Data And Personal Information By Inspecting Documents

Apr 5, 2012 3:22:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a good hint for your users from the Microsoft website: "If you plan to share an electronic copy of a Microsoft Word document with clients or colleagues, it is a good idea to ...

Global Payment Hack: Almost 340 Million Drop in Value

Mar 30, 2012 10:12:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Global Payment Hacked"][/caption] This is what they said in their press release: Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leader in ...

Unique Malware Samples 2006-2011

Mar 28, 2012 6:42:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="361" caption="Malware Unique Samples"][/caption] Malware is still exploding. Check out this graph. During the last few years, the security industry ...

Netherlands Gets European Centre for Cybercrime

Mar 28, 2012 1:03:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Holland's capital The Hague will get a new international showpiece. The new European Centre for Cybercrime will start there early 2013. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia ...

Look Ma, malware without files!

Mar 21, 2012 4:38:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wow, instead of an exploit dropping a file onto the file system and running it... a DLL is injected straight into memory from the exploit, leaving nothing to scan on the harddrive. Writen ...

For cloud services, security first - growth second

Mar 20, 2012 9:27:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Richard Stiennon at Forbes has a very good point. "My oft repeated advice for technology vendors is that security sells. Given a choice between two vendors of similar products or services ...

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