by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Project Honey Pot has reported that sometime in November it received its one billionth spam message.“Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. Our billionth message represents approximately 125 trillion...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Rogue anti-virus vendors yesterday used search engine optimization techniques to poison the Google search that resulted from visitors clicking on the Google Doodle – the art that periodically appears above the edit box on the Google front page.The Doodle, a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Friday we blogged about the three generations of the WiniGuard family of rogue security products that began in October of 2008. Friday, the 50th rogue in that line appeared. Analyst Patrick Jordan noted that there appeared to be a newly named clone added to the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
New rogue borrows massively from AV company sitesOur friend M.N. Bharath drew our attention to this web site associated with the new System Adware Scanner 2010 rogue security product. Although the group claims 10 million users world-wide, oddly enough their site was...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Don’t go there. There are a lot of rogue downloaders hiding in those links.Thanks AdamUpdate, 5 p.m. ESTYahoo CEO Carol Bartz, speaking at the UBS Media and Communications Conference in New York, said the Tiger Woods sex scandal was a better traffic generator than the...
