by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Infosecurity magazine is quoting Manchester, England, news sources as reporting that the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit has arrested a man and a woman and charged them with distributing the Zbot Trojan.Infosecurity wrote: “the Zbot trojan has become one of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Our Sunbelt Sales Director Debbie Graves alerted us to a great blog piece about the state of computer security from securosis.com. It falls firmly into the “glass half full” camp (by a toe length, anyway.) It’s a great read.The blogger, “Rich” raises an interesting...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The FBI is warning that its agents are investigating a growing number of spear phishing attacks on legal firms and public relations companies.Criminals are turning to those two industries because of the large amount of highly confidential information on company...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation today is looking into deceptive “loyalty” discount programs – those that offer discounts and coupons to customers for a monthly fee. Marketing companies Webloyalty, Affinion and Vertrue and the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
The expected hacks for Windows 7 activation have been publicized and utilities called “RemoveWAT” and “Chew-WGA” are circulating.They join the grimy world of cracks and key-gens – oft-Trojanized applications that defeat activation passwords or...
