Rogue DNS Network Collapsed as Web Host Went Offline

Last Saturday, California-based Web hosting company Intercage dropped off the Internet because its upstream provider PIE decided to terminate its services. All servers became unreachable as IP addresses were no longer routed to the Internet. They found a new upstream provider last Monday, after being offline for more than 36 hours. Traffic to and [...]

Talkback Tuesday: Webmail Security

I am going to devote one post a week to responding to recent user comments. It is the least I can do for those of you who write thoughtful responses to my posts.

nucrash writes: Much can be done to improve web mail security, your point of improving knowledge mechanisms to a person’s email [...]

‘Wachovia Security Certificate’ Installs Rootkit

At 4:18 PM PST yesterday, Advanced Threats Researcher Ivan Macalintal discovered a spy-phishing scheme targeting the Fortune 500 company and 4th largest banking chain in the US, Wachovia Bank (NYSE: WB). This attack ends in the execution of a rootkit detected as TROJ_ROOTKIT.FX, which is a file that hides files and processes, allowing malicious [...]