by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Adam Lambert may have stolen the show, but Sunbelt Software was at the American Music Awards too. You can see pictures here. John-Erich Mantius, who runs global consumer software here, was representing us. (Finally got around to blogging this, yeah,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D.PC world said the botnet controlled 250,000 machines in a massive network that was responsible for nearly 12 percent of world...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting, directed at the security community: Alex Eckelberry(with thanks to a researcher who prefers to remain anonymous)
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter was disrupted Thursday night by attackers who hacked Twitter’s domain name servers and rerouted Twitter traffic as well as posting their own banner on the micro-blogging services page. The service returned to normal by Friday morning.Technology blog Mashable,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Our researcher Adam Thomas came across a new piece of ransomware today, an encryption trojan via our old “friends” iframedollars. It encrypts the files on your hard drive very rapidly if you’re unfortunate enough to be victimized by it.It arrives through...
