by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
How sick.At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She was a stellar student who had never been in trouble,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
My good friend Ken Gerbino wrote something last month that’s of interest regarding the current economic situation. You can read it here.Come to your own conclusions. But I will say that I believe a lot of the hysterical talk right now is hogwash, designed to push...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Malvertisements (malicious advertisements) have been a bane of advertising networks the world over. Sleazy malware distributors try to place malicious ads onto legitimate advertising networks using all kinds of tricks (one blogger has made a specialty of tracking all...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
As a follow-up to my post on professional malware developers at promake, we see LonelyWolf, one of the developers, has problems like all other programmers. And uses a female avatar on ICQ:And is pretty active on the exploit.in forum (a forum for malware...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yesterday’s patch day was an important one. IE 7 sploits that can be crafted easily, and a SQL sploit that has functional exploit code published. F-Secure has done a good overview here. I do hope that admins have taken to heart lessons about patching...