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- Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?
- Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report by the Business Software Alliance BSA which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources. The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users...
- Tags: Software Piracy, Patch Management, Malware, Malware Infection Rate, Infection Rate, Patches, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Is "market share" thinking "old school" thinking?
- Is "market share" thinking "old school" thinking?HealthA fragmented market is a healthy market. You can compare it to an ecosystem: a great variety of species is best. Domination of one species poses risks: diseases, plagues.So we can say that the operating system market shows a healthy trend, but is still...
- Tags: Desktops, PC Market, Free Market, Market-Share, O/S, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-25
- Study: Silent patching best for securing browsers
- Study: Silent patching best for securing browsersAll MS had to dowas silently update the update service which would break nothing and the web went bonkers.I haven't had an issue with an MS update in a long time. Nor an Apple update for that matter.But we test every one regardless,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Paul McCartney's official site serving malware
- Paul McCartney's official site serving malwareNo different to his songs thenMalware to the earsCome on now, it's not Paul's faultHis site is hosted by a company called Netbenefit. This should be damaging them, not Paul.paulmccartney.com ==> 83.137.129.98http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?searchtext=83.137.129.98exalia.com brings up netbenefit.comPaul McCartney did this on purposeThere are only 2 explanations...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Paul McCartney, malware, official site
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Remote search and the invisible elephant
- Remote search and the invisible elephantThis is all about pr0nJust what evidence would you find if you scanned people's home PCs? Would you be able to cross-check every file against a checksum list of confidential/secret files? Could you detect packaged and ready to deploy malware? Nope and nope. There is...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), INTERNET, Corporate communications, Desktops, file name, internet crime, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers
- A new study conducted by Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, provides factual evidence of a well known practice by experienced phishers, namely, backdooring phishing pages that they would later on distribute for free across the IT underground, in order to build a covert network where other phishers would...
- Tags: Kit, Cybercriminal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its iTunes update site
- Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its iTunes update siteHate to say it...but if you have iTunes you have to have QuickTime, iTunes won't run without it. But you can have QuickTime without iTunes, just make sure you select the right download.And to be fair...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, window, Firefox beta, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Mozilla Corp., Safari 3.1, Apple QuickTime
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its update site
- Mozilla's CEO blasted Apple for distributing its Safari browser via the Apple Software Update service on Windows that is used by millions of iTunes users. In a blog posted today, John Lilly, the chief executive of Mozilla, claimed the distribution practice is unethical because it allegedly tricks...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Window, Blog, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Apple iTunes, CEO, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- $3.00 Windows and ad-supported product
- $3.00 Windows and ad-supported productI am wondering about the AdsIf the user did not have Internet access...- How would they get the Ad? Installed with Windows/Office?- If it was installed with Windows/Office, would it not get outdated over time?wonderfuli guess if they have no personal rights / privacy you can...
- Tags: Operating systems, advertisement, Microsoft Windows, brand
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Long live the (Windows) king!
- Long live the Windows king!Upside?[i]There is one thing that MS really should do: make Win98SE freeware, and make CD images OEM and Retail available for download along with a key generator for those who have lost their installation discs and/or cd key certificates.[/i]Bill Gates is not, contrary to rumors, running...
- Tags: Operating systems, information technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 98, Win98SE freeware, CD-images, key generator, Microsoft Corp., installation disc
- Discussion threads 2006-07-16
- More hacking targets iTunes, antivirus wares
- More hacking targets iTunes, antivirus waresApple takes it on chin...It is about time, and long overdue in this CIO's opinion, that hackers start targeting Apple. I am just glad it has been proven that Apple is a piece of malware. My rep and I always knew OS X was poorly...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Digital music, Digital media, tech writer, hacker, Apple iTunes, malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, antivirus, security, hacking
- Discussion threads 2005-05-02
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