Nine things about botnets that will scare your pants off

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned into zombies can be forced to distribute spam, steal identity credentials and intellectual property, log keystrokes, commit click fraud [...]

8 Keys to Internet Security

In a recent post, I recommended Panda’s Cloud Antivirus as a decent free antivirus program. Others have recommended different programs, and that’s fine – in the end, I don’t think there’s much meaningful difference between the various antivirus programs, at least in terms of security. Much more important than which antivirus program you use [...]

Sly Spam Run Targets Hotmail Users

Hotmail users need to be wary about a malicious spam run that specifically targets users of the said webmail. Senior Security Analyst Rik Ferguson reports that spam messages arrive with text indicating that it has file attachments that are image files with the JPEG format. In truth however, the file names of attachments are [...]