A new botnet has been discovered by botnet researchers at Damballa. It’s named Kraken and it’s victims include 50 of the Fortune 500. Early results show the malware arriving as an image that’s filename ends in “.exe” but that executable extension is hidden from the user.
80% of infections are getting by antivirus software and the [...]
Spybot Search and Destroy has always been a good tool for getting rid of spyware and malware on computer systems. Now there’s a plugin under development that will help find rootkits . The new plugin is called RootAlyzer and can be downloaded from the Spybot forums. Here’s the announcement and here’s a link to the [...]
I published an article a few days ago on giving your data to thieves. Here’s a tool to solve one of the problems, public wireless internet hotspots. As a quick recap, unless the sites you are visiting are secured, your data in a public access hotspot goes unencrypted over the air to everyone else [...]
WikiLeaks has been making headlines a lot lately with some pretty ground-breaking releases. Last, they hosted documents embarrassing a large bank in the Cayman Islands that had prided itself in privacy and anonymity. Names of clients that may have been using it as an offshore tax shelter were released along with internal information.
Now, the latest [...]