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- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
- Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media. Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Details are still sparse, but both the...
- Tags: Virus, Military, Details, Cyberthreats, Biotechnology, Security, Viruses And Worms, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- I really don't want to use Windows anymore
- Every week, more and more bits of malware seem to be making their way past commercial anti-virus, firewall anti-virus, and ISP anti-virus software. New patches and downloads abound, and I've still re-imaged 3 computers in the last 2 weeks due to massive infestations. This is to say nothing...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Linux, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Desktops, Security, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Malware found in Lenovo software package
- Computer maker Lenovo is shipping a malware-infected software package to Windows XP users, according to warning from anti-virus researchers at Microsoft. The malicious file was identified by Microsoft as Win32/Meredrop, a Trojan dropper that is used to install and execute multiple malicious executables on an infected computer....
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Malware, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows XP, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010
- Microsoft's just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn't the only new Microsoft security service in the works. There's a Microsoft-hosted security service for businesses in the pipeline, too, and it's due in 2010, according to a new Microsoft blog posting. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Security, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Service, Forefront
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malware
- Yesterday, a signatures update pushed by AVG falsely labeled a critical Windows file as a banker malware, prompting the company to quickly fix the issue and issue a workaround, following end users complaints at its support forums. AVG's false positive causing downtime for Windows users is happening...
- Tags: Malware, Virus, AVG, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- CNET Download.com not so 'spyware-free'
- CNET Download.com not so 'spyware-free'Anyone else notice the irony of the name?"Anti-virus defender"? Doesn't that mean it defends against anti-virus products? ;-)
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, not-so, spyware
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- CNET Download.com not so 'spyware-free'
- On its home page, CNET's Download.com promises that all software available on the site "has been tested to ensure it's 100% free of spyware, viruses, and other malware." Unfortunately, there appears to be a kink in the system that allows the display of a known adware program called...
- Tags: Adware, Kaspersky Lab, Malware, CNET Download.com, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Would you flip to Microsoft?
- Would you flip to Microsoft?Nope...happy in the land of Open Source and true freedom. ]:)Spelling mistake, off is spelled O-F-F not T-O... ntntWhat does it matter?why so intent on what people use? Microsoft, Linux, Apple, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.If a company feels that this solution or that solution...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Blogging, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- MLE InterNet Browser (zip)
- This is a free Internet Browser I made that has anti-virus codes built right in the core. So while you surf, it's the lifeguard. The program has tabs, they are: 1 tab = MSN; #2 tab = Yahoo.com; #3 tab = iGoogle; #4 tab = ask.com; #5 tab = about.com;...
- Tags: Antivirus, Tab, MLE Software, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Obama community blog redirecting to malware
- Hot on the heels of yesterday's Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat. During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha...
- Tags: Blog, Malware, Community Blog, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Obama-related spammed trojan propagating worldwide
- Several security companies including F-Secure, Sunbelt, and my employer Cloudmark disclosure are reporting a large volume of Obama-related spam that links to malware. This is just the latest twist on the long-running theme of social engineering end users into installing web-based malware. The lures...
- Tags: Cloudmark, President, Trojan Horse, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'
- Newsweek is reporting that the computer systems of the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were compromised in a "sophisticated cyberattack" by an unknown "foreign entity." At Obama headquarters, what was originally believed to be a virus planted in a phishing attack turned out to...
- Tags: Newsweek, FBI, Federal Government, Government, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Security Shield 2009 (exe)
- Security Shield 2009 provides essential virus protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats. Powerful yet easy to use, protect yourself, your family, and your PC online with Security Shield 2009. When a virus breaks out, Security Shield 2009 will provide a patch within 2-3 hours and a fix for the...
- Tags: Virus, PCSecurityShield, Security Shield 2009, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-11-05
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wildI will not be directly affected.I use Linux. (This is a trap for the Windows fanboys to proclaim that Linux would be as vulnerable if it was as popular as Windows.)thanks sincerely, RyanThis time you were really clear that there was a fix, and...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, LANs, Viruses and worms, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, MS08-067 worm, MS08-067, worm, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- First came Microsoft's emergency patch. Then the public release of reliable exploit code. Now, virus hunters are reporting two new in-the-wild worms exploiting the critical MS08-067 vulnerability. The worms, intercepted on Chinese-language versions of Windows, are being used to install a Trojan downloader, a denial-of-service bot and...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Worm, Attack, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
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