What do they use? The Coreflood Trojan horse to infect massive numbers of PCs that gathers confidential information, including bank account numbers and passwords.
The Russian hacker group is at it again using a Microsoft administration tool to steal passwords. This is not new as they have been doing this for years.
A sampling of 11% of [...]

Don’t trust software to be secure. Vista DEP (Data Execution Prevention) isn’t doing a good job protecting Vista users. It’s only partially enabled and if switched fully on too many applications fail. I find this absurd that applications would fail if DEP is totally enabled. It’s not what the doctor ordered.

It’s just another day of [...]

After two recent worm attacks on Facebook, the popular social networking site responded last night with a statement about its security practices. Regarding the attacks, Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, wrote this in a blog post:
“We spent most of last night working on a fix for a worm, which was targeting people on [...]

In what is called a sophisticated attack, hackers sending out spam email to users with links to what looked like CNN.com news feeds. When users go to the site and click on the news “stories” they get a message saying their flash player is incorrectly installed. While some savvy users decided to click “cancel”, [...]