User: Madas

Is there a "botwar" going on

On: Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global

This article on SC Magazine Apparently there is a war between virus writers and they are all trying to delete each other's viruses. Mikko has provided a lovely diagram to illustrate the point.

Not surprised!!!

On: Government Use of WiFi Not Secure

I saw a similar story on SC's Website link

Nothing to see move along now

On: Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown

I notice that even Graham Cluley of Sophos is downplaying the threat(link)

A lot of it has to do with the World Cup

On: Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic

This interesting article in SC Magazine. Them free tickets offers are great for social engineering attacks!!!

ANd these guys got a certification recently

On: Trend Micro Bug Hits Several Important Computers

link Checkmark labs recently gave out an award to the company for its spyware product. Spyware, as you know, slows down computers and makes them difficult to use. Oh the irony!!!

Here's a review of how it performs

On: Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2

What they are saying is that if you like your computing experience to be all-Microsoft this is the way to go. Otherwise you'd be much better off with a different browser, email client and personal firewall!!

I can't believe they took so long to find out

On: LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed

Quote: "There were about 59 incidents of this fraudulent activity, the company said. Law enforcement officials are investigating the case." (Link here). Surely they should have spotted something was wrong after about the fifth attempt!!!

But IBM is NOT spamming!!!

On: IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers

They are merely sending the email back to where came (see here) Would you be sending unsoliticited post if you were sending junk mail back to the credit card company it came from. (which really annoys junk mailers by the way!!!)

UK almost hosted the world's biggest cyberheist

On: UK Officially The Most Hacked Country

I read here that bots in the UK nearly led to nearly half a billion dollars being siphoned off a Japanese bank.