Archive for April, 2008

Olympic Games and all the topics related to Olympics draw readers’ attention quickly. What countries chose to boycott? What's happening in Tibet? What had Dalai Lama said in the newest interview? Would you open Olympics themed newsletter even though you hadn’t subscribed it? MessageLabs have reported increasing number of Olympics related attacks spreading via email. “Current news” spam is not a new thing; however recent attacks are exceptional because of their complexity. More...

Viruses and spam are not as dangerous as means to distribute them. Cyber attacks wouldn’t be that successful without huge networks that make them possible. Homeland Security (USA) even declared botnets a threat to national security to accent the gravity of the problem. More...

Having anti-virus on computer was really helpful several years ago, but when new types of computer infections emerged, anti-virus became not as powerful tool as it used to be. Some experts even start questioning the methods most anti-virus application uses to located and delete threats. Computer viruses are not welcome on a machine; however, is anti-virus really needed? And if so, does it really do the best to fight malware? According to security experts, the methods used by the most common anti-viruses are old fashioned. More...

Can all software exploits ever be patched? The answer is probably negative. Software creators keep releasing fixes and hackers keep trying to exploit weak points of certain applications. Report on MS Windows vulnerability appeared just after it was patched on 8th April. More...

Having all possible types of security software updated and running doesn’t grant the safety of your computer. Unfortunately, computer parasites can crawl out of pre-infected hardware. Recent incident on HP USB based drives revealed that even reputable companies can slip up. More...

Security experts warn of new scheme of cyber crimes: crime-as-a-service. Modern hacker is not some smart guy who compromises websites and creates sophisticated tools; modern hacker is the one who buys ready-to-use tools and employs them to gain profit or for other reasons. Malware tools have been for sale for some time now, however, they hadn’t been much popular. More...

The users of Mac computers are not longer exceptional when we talk about malware attacks. Despite the public opinion, Mac have been vulnerable for cyber parasites, however the amount of malwares is really small in comparison to PC parasites. The first huge wave of malware attacks emerged on the beginning of the week. More...

It‘s a bad month for scammers and one scammer in particular. Mr. Ron Cooke has been accused by the Washington Attorney General‘s Office of persuading users to buy popup-blocking software after having bombarded them with as ominous Viagra and porn popups as they come. More...