Syrian Malware Servers Survive Outage, Die Later Mark Hachman, November 30, 2012 4 min read A massive outage knocked Syria’s Internet offline Nov. 29—with the exception of five servers implicated in...
Windows 8 Security: What You Need to Know Nick Kolakowski, November 2, 2012 7 min read All applications submitted to Windows 8's Windows Store must be digitally "signed," encouraging malware authors to try...
Symphony of Self-Destruction: Strengthening Security With a Red Team Steve Ragan, October 15, 2012 17 min read According to Rafal Los, Security Strategist for HP Software, policy is a poor substitute preparation. Organizations...
Email-Based Attacks Made Scary Gains in First Half David Strom, August 29, 2012 1 min read This year's first and second quarters saw a 56 percent increase in email-based attacks that penetrated traditional...
Massive Spamming Botnet Whacked. Ding-dong Witch Is Dead David Strom, August 1, 2012 2 min read One of the largest spam botnets has been dismantled, at least according to security researchers. The Grum botnet had...
Simple Security Tricks You Need to Know David Strom, July 30, 2012 44 seconds Renaming admin accounts to something that's not obvious, changing ports of well-known exploited programs such as RDP to...
Anatomy of A Well-Planned Phishing Attack David Strom, July 20, 2012 2 min read We all know not to open email attachments, and to suspect odd emails that arrive at random from seemingly legit places....
Malware Forces Printers Into Massive Print Jobs C.S. Magor, July 2, 2012 2 min read Over the last few weeks, I've seen reports of companies having their print server paper trays emptied by huge print...
Gen Y and Baby Boomers Generations Apart on Security David Strom, June 26, 2012 1 min read Gen Y and older computer users tend to differ in the music they like, clothes they wear and hair styles. But apparently...
Hacker Claims Security Breach of 79 Banks Dawn Kawamoto, June 19, 2012 1 min read A hacker named ReckzOr claims to have infiltrated 1,700 U.S. and foreign bank accounts and pilfered 50 GB of data...
