Malware Help. Org | Blog

"Microsoft’s Secure Windows Initiative unit has emerged from the shadows, promising a new level of transparency, as well as details of software vulnerabilities and security bulletins.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"The Russian Business Network, a notorious hacker and malware hosting network, runs a protection racket that extorts as much as $2,000 a month in fees for "protective Web services" from borderline sites, a researcher alleged today.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"Researchers at Georgia Tech have published a paper on BotSniffer—a program they’ve designed to detect and disable botnets. Botsniffer is not the only bot-detection program available, but the Georgia Tech research team believes that the program’s approach to the botnet issue results in a better correlation rate and a lower number of false positives.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"One of the early nicknames for the Internet was the "information superhighway" because it was supposed to provide the average person with fast access to a practically limitless amount of data. For many users, that’s exactly what accessing the Internet is like. For others, it’s as if the information superhighway has some major roadblocks in the form of Internet censorship.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"At the last DefCon event, one of the attendees, ‘Hamster’ showed off how the cookies sent by your computer when signing into a Google account can be copied, allowing the account to be cloned by the hacker, and all the implications that carried.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots — except maybe the media.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"Josh Corman is the host protection architect for Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), with more than eight years of experience in security and networking software. What was refreshing was Corman’s out-of-the-box thinking on the distributed networks currently being used by online criminals. Of the most popular of these networks, he said "Storm did a lot of things right; in some ironic sort of way, you could argue that Storm is itself a blueprint for fighting (botnets)."
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"Microsoft is taking a leaf out of the virus writers’ handbook, hoping to use friendly "worms" to distribute software patches surreptitiously.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

"During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible….
Read the rest of this entry »

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!