Infamous vendor of “AntiVirus XP” badware sued

The software purveyor behind AntiVirus XP, a fake anti-virus package, has been sued and will hopefully be put out of business.

There has been plenty of information available on this organization for some time, yet unsuspecting consumers continue to hand over their own money for what amounts to malware. Alex Eckelberry at Sunbelt Software [...]

Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election

Mudslinging in presidential elections is as old as the American political system. The Internet has increased both the rate as well as the quantity of attack strains. The low cost and accessibility of Internet technology has placed the power to disrupt a presidential campaign in the hands of the average American. Someone [...]

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Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug

Just days after shipping a patch for a dozen serious security holes in Firefox, Mozilla has rushed out another version to fix an annoying password manager bug. The newest Firefox 3.0.3 basically fixes a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords. Firefox’s Mike Beltzner explains:

The symptom is [...]

ZoneAlarm Security Suite 8.0.055.000 Beta

ZoneAlarm Security Suite is the easy-to-use, comprehensive security solution that is based on the world’s best firewall to keep out hackers, viruses, worms, and other threats. It combines the most popular firewall with antivirus, Web site filtering, privacy protection, instant messaging security and more to provide the best overall protection of any PC security suite. [...]

Firefox + NoScript vs Clickjacking

In response to my story earlier on the cross-browser Clickjacking exploit/threat, I received the following e-mail from Giorgio Maone, creator of the popular Firefox NoScript plug-in: Hi Ryan, I’ve seen a lot of speculation and confusion in the comments to your Clickjacking article about NoScript not being able to mitigate [the issue]. I had access [...]