by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.The Register – which is worth reading twice a day for its insanely funny headlines if nothing else – is reporting that a hacker (hacktivist?), possibly British, who goes by the handle...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV software).Our (environmentally conscious) researcher Adam Thomas heard about a “green” hot water...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
VirusTotal.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal.com ] is a brilliant site that helps both public and researchers alike determine if an executable file they have is potentially malicious or not.Julio Canto (of VirusTotal fame) has noticed that somebody decided...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Very funny:The story starts with an guy insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and original author of the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Operation b49″Tim Cranton, Microsoft’s associate general counsel posted on the company’s official blog early this morning that Microsoft has shut down the Waledac botnet.He wrote:“On February 22, in response to a complaint filed by Microsoft (“Microsoft...
