Virus hoaxes, scams, and chain letters abound in email. Before forwarding that dire sounding warning or too good to be true promise, check this list of hoaxes to find out ... Read More

Windows ME and Windows XP both come with a feature known as System Restore that enables users to revert to specific restore points without impacting data files. However, problems can ... Read More

The Windows System Registry isn't just the central nervous system for the Operating System (OS), it's the central nervous system for the OS and any applications installed to that OS. ... Read More

Beginning early in 2006, online fraudsters mass-emailed scams targeting Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan customers. Dubbed 'phishing scams', such emails are designed to trick recipients into relinquishing personal financial details ... Read More

Fraudulent email claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service exploits taxpayers naivete by promising a non-existent refund. In reality, the link provided in the phishing email points to a ... Read More

An excellent report from Kasperksy, "2005: *nix Malware Evolution" - as its title suggests - provides an historical perspective of Linux/Unix malware, with statistics collected for the year 2005 and ... Read More

The threat landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years. The Malware Evolution: A Change of Intent, written by yours truly for The Remediator Security Digest, discusses those changes ... Read More

In September 2005, I published the results of some informal tracking I had done on Instant Messaging threats. (See: "IM Worms Pose Significant Threat"). According to the data collected up ... Read More

McAfee has published part 1 of a 3 part series titled "Rootkits, The Growing Threat". The report provides alarming statistics, including overall growth in the number of rootkits (up 600%) ... Read More

The Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 1.5.0.2, providing patches for seven security vulnerabilities, five of which are rated 'critical'. Those using v1.5 will be automatically prompted to update to the ... Read More

Imagine my surprise when I received a Google Alert this morning claiming "The first Windows, Linux cross-platform virus discovered". Especially since it pointed to an article I had written over ... Read More

Phishing is a scam in which the attacker sends an email purporting to be from a valid financial or eCommerce provider. The email often uses fear tactics in an effort ... Read More

Researchers from Harvard and Berkeley focused on the human-side of phishing scams. According to this BBC News article, their study revealed that 40% of study participants were unable to distinguish ... Read More

Security vendor McAfee has announced plans to acquire SiteAdvisor. I can't say I'm surprised; SiteAdvisor is one of the most innovative consumer-focused services I've seen. SiteAdvisor assigns safety ratings to ... Read More

Bad guys can hijack your PC and use it to transmit trash with impunity. This older, but still valid, article from PC World discusses how your PC can be ... Read More

A Canton, NC man learned about eBay scams the hard way. He was the victim of a clever scam carried out via email that ended up costing him $5000. After ... Read More