A security flaw on a US government website has been exploited by a phishing scam claiming to be an IRS refund notification. The phishing email claims the recipient is eligible ... Read More

Lottery winner scams attempt to trick recipients into believing they have won large sums of cash, and then bilks them out of their own dough in a similar fashion to ... Read More

Whether you're trying to keep your home PC safe on the Internet or you're charged with securing an entire enterprise, one of these books is sure to help. Top Enterprise ... Read More

Virus hoaxes, scams, and chain letters abound in email. Virus hoaxes and myths waste time and money - and can make the sender look foolish. Don't fall victim to a ... Read More

Emails falsely claiming to be from the likes of Citibank, NatWest, and other reputable banking entities attempt to entice recipients into divulging their ATM/Debit card and PIN numbers.

A newly discovered Sober variant, dubbed Sober.X by some antivirus vendors, is using scare tactics to trick users into opening its infected attachment. The Sober.X worm pretends to be from ... Read More

Mytob is an extremely prolific family of backdoor access Trojans used to create a botnet of infected computers. These botnets can be used for everything from stealing credit card and ... Read More

Beer drinking beta testers will delight in BitDefender's clever "Crash and Win" contest, centered around the new BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprises. Contestants have from November 15, 2005 through January ... Read More

You might wonder why someone like Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher specializing in massive-scale network security, would weigh in on the Sony rootkit debacle. It's because hiding behind the Sony ... Read More

Plan on using Sony's uninstaller to remove their rootkit? You might want to think again. A Finnish researcher has discovered a serious flaw in the ActiveX control used to initiate the download. ... Read More

CNET published a recent review of Norton AntiVirus 2006 and McAfee VirusScan 2006. The review measured performance and its accompanying graph claims 'longer bars mean better performance'. Based on that, ... Read More

As predicted, new variants of the Sober email worm were discovered; the first spotted spreading just after midnight GMT. The Sober worm email may arrive in either German or English, ... Read More

German police are warning of a new variant of the Sober worm - claiming it will be released tomorrow. According to the Bayerische Landeskriminalamt (BLKA), the infected attachment will be ... Read More

Adware and spyware often work hand-in-hand, slowing Internet connections to a crawl, bombarding desktops with popup ads, and compromising security. This article describes what adware and spyware are and offers ... Read More

A total of four variants of the Stinx Trojan have been discovered exploiting the Sony BMG rootkit. The rootkit is found on music CDs published by Sony BMG and is ... Read More

It seems the newly discovered Stinx.E Trojan is as buggy as the Sony rootkit it attempts to exploit. The question being asked by some security professionals is whether these are ... Read More

The first Trojan exploiting the Sony DRM cloaking technology (aka rootkit) has been discovered. Dubbed Troj/Stinx-E by antivirus vendor Sophos, Trojan.Downloader.Small-882 by ClamAV, and detected heuristically by BitDefender, the Sony ... Read More

Unix-based BBS admins or bloggers beware - the Linux Slapper worm has been given a facelift and this time you're the target. And, as is too often the case, this ... Read More

The President of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business, Thomas Hesse, defends Sony's installation of a rootkit by declaring, "Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so ... Read More

The Sony rootkit saga may have a silver lining - helping spread the word about the dangers of rootkits. But you can't use antivirus software to ferret out these hidden ... Read More

A new month and a new set of Bagle downloader Trojans. On November 1st, three new variants of Bagle were reported with two more following on November 2nd. Each was ... Read More

Things like this are why I haven't purchased any new music CDs in the past couple of years. Because if you've purchased a Sony-labeled music CD since March 2005 ... Read More

Achieving good computer security can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, following these simple steps can provide a good measure of security in very little time.