by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
A Massachusetts stock broker will pay a $100,000 penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to have security software or procedures when intruders stole account information of hundreds of customers and began making transactions with it.Commonwealth...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Rogue researcher S!Ri (blog here) just blogged about catching some rogue affiliate web sites ripping off his content to boost their search engine rankings. The game is a good glimpse into the rogue security software distribution world.Rogue creators put up web sites,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The history of advice about Vista: 2006-7: It’s pretty buggy, wait till they get the kinks out2007: It’s such a resource hog, wait until you buy your next (bigger, faster) machine and get it free rather than spend the cash for new RAM, etc.2008: The economy is so bad,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
TRE AntiVirus is a new rogue application from WiniGuard family.A few days ago this gang left a Hidden message in their code for Sunbelt.Kara recently called this gang as lazy after watching a series of clones from this gang. (A total of 28 clones using the same...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Software piracy and its relationship to the spread of malware has been a topic this week.Monday, the Business Software Alliance released a report that estimated the “staggering” number of Internet users swapping software through P2P networks has resulted in 41 percent...
