by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
A spokesman for Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that legislation that would set up a $120 million Internet censorship system requiring ISPs to block pornography (and information about euthanasia) will not be introduced before Australia’s...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Our good friends at Sophos anti-virus company have released their tabulations of the geographic distribution of spam relaying computers. It isn’t news that the U.S. has the most (13.1 percent) but it IS big news that China has dropped off the Sophos top 12 list.Graham...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
[Editor’s note: communications have been restored] All Internet and land line communication at Sunbelt Software went down as of 10:15 a.m. today. Verizon and Time Warner Internet and land line service in most of Clearwater, Fla., has been blacked out and is...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
When “doc” stands for “don’t open contents”Brian Ross, one of our Sunbelt malware removal specialists found this little gem – a malicious file that arrives as an attachment in spam and takes advantage of the newly-discovered launch vulnerability in .PDF files.It uses...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Fixes WMS on Win2K serverMicrosoft has reissued Security Bulletin MS10-025 – the one it pulled last week.MS10-025 was aimed at fixing a vulnerability in Windows Media Services running on Windows 2000 Server that could allow remote code execution if an intruder sent a...