Tag Archives: anti-virus

Spam-ready tablets off the shelves? Zombie PCs out of the box? Testifying before U.S. Congress this week, a top official for the Department of Homeland Security said that technology being imported into the country is sometimes known to contain preloaded …

In recent weeks, two typically secure Internet sites have been exploited successfully by phishers. Apple’s iTunes store, situated behind the company’s walled ecosystem, has been a tough nut to crack for cyber miscreants, although it has had problems with them …

In a nutshell, here are seven ways to keep your company network safe, and in turn all your company’s workstations. Have a solid anti-virus/anti-spam solution and a firewall in place. This may seem obvious but many small and midsize businesses …

When the Exchange Server 2010 anti-spam features are enabled and configured they take effect for all mailboxes within the organization.  But sometimes it is necessary to customize the settings for specific mailbox users. Organization-Wide Anti-Spam Settings At the organization level …

Security researchers have discovered that the Zbot Trojan is undetectable by most anti-virus programs because it is continually morphing. Zbot is one of the most widespread banking Trojans on the net and has been around since 2006. It uses a …

Ads for shady Internet pharmacies are partly responsible for a new spike in spam levels. The spam messages deliver the ads buried in image attachments and most of them hawk Viagra and other similar medications. The subject lines are random …

A large scale attack on UK government websites has been discovered. Hundreds of sites for schools, government offices, universities and more have been compromised to include links and other references to porn sites or shady pharmacies. The hacks were likely …

On Monday, users of Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus started seeing firewall alerts warning them that an executable named PIFTS.exe was attempting to connect to stats.norton.com. Conspiracy theories immediately started to spread like wildfire. What exactly was PIFTS? Were …

A clever piece of social engineering appears at first to be something similar to the old-fashioned mass-mailing worms which were designed to annoy, but the MonaRonaDona virus actually goes much further than that. Once infected, a pop-up will appear, stating, …