National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Calls People to Action

US President Barack Obama officially declared October as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Now in its sixth year, the said campaign promotes increased awareness with its theme, “Our Shared Responsibility.” It also calls for everyone to do their fair share in securing the nation’s digital infrastructure. Furthermore, it stressed out the need for people [...]

‘What The Experts Still Don’t Know’ – The Thriving Cyber Crime Underground

I was prompted into crafting this post by a Scientific American blog post which stated that many experts in various scientific studies are sometimes “blinded” by — in fact — their focused studies of a particular subject, missing some of the finer aspects of the larger picture, so to speak. This reminds me of [...]

File Infector Takes Infection Up a Notch

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of a not-so-common file infector. Unlike usual file infectors that only do simple modifications to the files they infect, PE_XPAJ.A does complex modifications to hide its malicious code. Though it shares some characteristics with other PE variants, it is considered more than the average file [...]