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Update: 10/06/2009 Though this was not an obvious phishing campaign that takes your money, McAfee Site Advisor Rating: Phishing or other scams This site uses your Twitter account info to send spammy messages to your followers. Here is an example: “I got 100 followers using http://TwitPWR.com/swf/ . Check it out!” This is a clear case [...]

With the advent of banking Trojans  such as the Clampi virus spreading like wildfire across the Internet, the security of online banking and financial transactions needs to be addressed more so than at any other time in history.   The virus, called Clampi, “is pretty scary,” says Tim Wilson, editor of DarkReading, a technology security news [...]

I am having plenty of technical difficulty trying to access Twitter today. If I do manage to get to the site and attempt to perform a people search, I end up with this fail: All this “unavailable” jargon and “search servers wandering  off” is starting to get on my twit-nerves. Please bring back the old [...]

Malware Basics Malware is a composition of the words “malicious” and “software” and, simply put, is unwanted software that someone else wants to run on your computer. Malware encompasses a wide range of damaging software such as Adware, Botnets, Crimeware (phishing), Rootkits, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, and Worms. Malware is always intrusive, often hostile, and can [...]

This morning I received an IM from someone concerned about a pop-up ad he had received from reading a post at the New York Times.  He could not remember the exact NYT article, but he did remember the advertisement attempting to download something to his computer.  This wasn’t just any pop-up ad either, this ad [...]