10 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang

The intensive multitasking on behalf of the Koobface gang, next to the fact that the Koobface botnet is the tip of the iceberg for their malicious operations, prompts the publishing of this top 12 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang list.

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Virtualised USB key beats keyloggers

Is this the future of online banking? US company IronKey has come up with a USB drive that can be used to access accounts virtually without involving the operating system or applications that cause so many of today’s security problems.

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Get Tough With Your Users to Protect Your Network

No one likes to be hated, but if you’re running a small business, sometimes you’ve got to take security measures that will make your employees really angry. You might even have to (gasp) pull some PCs off the Internet, and treat some employees like, well, children.

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Free VirusTotal Uploader Links to 40 Antivirus Programs

The VirusTotal.com Web site offers a free but invaluable security service. It will scan any Web download, e-mail attachment or other file you send it with 40-odd different antivirus scanners to let you know whether it’s safe for your computer. The free VirusTotal Uploader utility makes sending a file to the site a breeze by [...]

Phishers Target “Bloggers”

Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger (see Figure 1), a free blog publishing tool from Google.

The spammed message instructed users to update their Blogger accounts by clicking the embedded link, which leads them to a fake login page. At first glance, the [...]