It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about the massive malware threat that every Internet user on the planet faces. It’s going to be controversial and difficult legally and technically. It’s going to cost serious…
Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D. PC world said the botnet controlled 250,000 machines in a massive network that was responsible for nearly 12 percent of world spam according to Message Labs statistics. Mushtaq and those…
AV-Comparatives Summary Reports 2009 Available! Summary Report 2009 AV-Comparatives Site: http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Read/Download Summary Here. Overall winners of 2009 (Best Products of the Year by AV-Comparatives): To be rated “Best Anti-Virus Product of 2009” by AV-Comparatives, an Anti-Virus product should preferably have very high detection rates (of malware and also potentially unwanted applications), high proactive on-demand detection…
Performance comparative test result is available! AV-Comparatives: http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Read/Download test result from Here.
This is the ’12 scams of Christmas’ I mentioned in last post: Pipers tout fake gold rings as Maids are ‘a-phishing’ to milk bank accounts On what is traditionally the busiest online shopping day of the year (1), consumers are being warned not to become victims of the ’12 Scams of Christmas’ and to take…
Tanya has just posted over on Kaspersky Russian site about losses caused by Internet fraudsters in England and Wales. If you want to practice your Russian, hop over there, and take a look! I know that most people in the UK prefer to get their news in English. So here’s a few facts and figures:…
After months of negotiations, US President Barack Obama has finally chosen a Chief of CyberSecurity – Mr Howard A Schmidt. Confirmation of the appointment is expected shortly. Mr Schmidt, who previously served with the Bush administration as a cyber security official, comes to the job with an impressively lengthy list of credentials. The new Chief…
For the first time, the FBI has issued a public warning about the threat of rogue anti-virus software, which the agency said has resulted in more than $150 million in losses to victims. In an intelligence note posted Friday on the website of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, the FBI said users should be on…