by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of the good folks over at Kaspersky Lab, Yury Namestnikov, has written a great white paper about the worldwide botnet “industry.” The story was picked up by Computer Weekly which did a good summary of it.The financial “highlights” of the ill-gotten gains from...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Police in Queensland, Australia, are doing an electronic version or rattling the doorknobs – they’re war driving, looking for unsecured home WiFi connections.Queensland Detective Superintendent Brian Hay said “All unsecured WiFi networks out there are open for...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today isn’t a good time to go looking for that Erin Andrews “peep hole” video.There has been a boom in malicious spam, web sites and Twitter posts advertising a “peep hole” video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in a hotel room.Researchers at Sunbelt Software...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Some VIPRE® users have notified us that they are getting warnings from the Microsoft Security Center that VIPRE® is incompatible with Microsoft’s Vista SP1. It’s a false alarm. The warning pop-up window looks like this:The text of the note from Microsoft’s Windows...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The partnership between Sunbelt Software and StopBadware.org was part of this week’s Data Security Podcast, with info security specialist Ira Victor and broadcaster Samantha Stone. Sunbelt sponsors this podcast, but that’s not the reason we were part of the...
