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Boot Sector Virus proves challenging – and yet not challenging 2 Jul 2010 | 01:32 pm
So, a repeat client of mine came across the good ‘ol Sinowal virus. (read about it here). He switched over to a different antivirus, one provided by his ISP, namely F-secure. F-Secure began popping up...
Never assume an intelligent customer will not make stupid mistakes 23 Jun 2010 | 01:34 pm
So, I provided a new computer to a public service agency when their old one died. This particular agency is one of the top 3 jobs which all young boys want to be when they grow up. So, the “chief” of...
Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets 5 May 2010 | 01:00 am
Your Office Copy Machine Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale By Armen Keteyian // At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. ...
Malware Registry Entry Points: 14 Apr 2010 | 02:13 am
Most trojans, worms, backdoors, and such make sure they will be run after a reboot by introducing autorun keys and values into the Windows registry. Some of these registry locations are better documen...
AVprofit: Rogue AV + Zeus = $ 26 Mar 2010 | 01:55 am
An amazing article about how the “bad guys” are making some serious coin with malware… The presence of rogue anti-virus products, also known as scareware, on a Microsoft Windows computer is often jus...
malware botnets have the largest “cloud” 24 Mar 2010 | 03:03 am
Who’s got the biggest cloud in the tech universe? Google? Pretty big, but no. Amazon? Lots and lots of servers, but not even close. Microsoft? They’re just getting started. Household names all, but t...
Ripping on the mainstream security software 23 Mar 2010 | 01:07 am
Back Story, for you bored people out there- I used to subscribe to the “Langa Letter” by Fred Langa. He merged with Windows Secrets a few years ago. I got THIS in a e-newsletter: http://windowssecrets...
rogue database 18 Mar 2010 | 01:37 am
http://roguedatabase.net/RogueDL.php I had a customer call me today and complain that the Microsoft Security Essentials icon was missing. After talking with them for a minute, he mentioned he had “M...
Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers Inside Gas Station Pumps 24 Feb 2010 | 03:06 am
Wave of recent bank-card skimming incidents demonstrate how sophisticated the scam has become Feb 22, 2010 | 05:20 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices ...
Attackers going after end users rather than servers 24 Feb 2010 | 03:04 am
The Web traffic study also finds issues with botnets, corporate policies, and outdated browsers By Paul Krill, InfoWorld February 22, 2010 08:01 PM ET Rather than targeting Web and email servers, a...
