IBM is suing Amazon for alleged patent-infringement, based on several patents created when IBM co-owned the now defunct Prodigy dial-up BBS service. Now I'm certainly not a lawyer, and I ... Read More

In a livejournal post, a University of Michigan student describes her frustrating experience with a Mytob infection. After cleaning the system and sending the report log to the support team, ... Read More

It was 20 years ago last January when the first PC boot sector virus was created. Dubbed Brain, it infected 360Kb floppy disks and operated in stealth-mode by hooking INT13. ... Read More

Multiple new variants of the Stration email worm continue to flood inboxes. Stration is a family of mass-mailing email worms that attempt to disable antivirus and security software and also ... Read More

Joe Stewart of Lurhq has done a thorough analysis of a rather interesting spam Trojan he's dubbed "SpamThru". One interesting aspect Joe points out - the Trojan uses a stolen, ... Read More

A mass-mailing email worm that also spreads via USB and thumb drives, the Rontokbro worm - also know as Brontok - is a stubborn infector that takes a multifaceted approach ... Read More

First, McDonald's Japan awards 10,000 mp3 flash players infected with the QQPass Trojan. As its name suggests, QQPass is a password stealing Trojan that targets users of QQ, a Chinese ... Read More

The Windows operating system recognizes file types and associates them with programs based on their file extension. This association can spell disaster if an extension is removed or renamed. >> ... Read More

Hiding inside of every email is a header, showing each step of the email's journey from point A to point Z and every pass through in between. Here's how to ... Read More

Trying to figure out who is behind that numeric address in your firewall log or email header? Here's how to do an IP address lookup to find the person - ... Read More

According to this post from PepiMK, there may actually be a fix in the works for the TeaTimer bug that renders the interface all but useless to many users. They ... Read More

On a recent flight, I sat next to someone from Chase Manhattan Bank. We chatted about phishing and she was quick to extol the benefits of the Anti-Phishing.org workgroup. Now, ... Read More

There's a war of words happening between antivirus vendor Symantec and the makers of Spybot Search & Destroy. At the heart of the controversy is a recommendation in Norton Internet ... Read More

Microsoft support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and SP1a comes to an end on October 10th. That means no more security patches for newly discovered vulnerabilities impacting those ... Read More

It appears new variants of the Stration email worm may be circulating in email. As with the variants reported last week, the message sent by this week's worm may claim ... Read More