Stealth Mode Malware

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Makers of antispyware and antivirus programs, pay attention to this article. An ugly trend is developing in the world of antispyware. It is my belief that, very soon, all current tools and methods used to detect and remove malware will become obsolete. Very soon, malware will be able to load ...

Spyware shifts from marketing to robbery

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Need examples of why spyware is so insidious? Headlines from the last few months are full of them, said Richard Stiennon, VP of threat research for Boulder, Colo.-based security firm Webroot. Spyware probably contributed to the data thievery companies like Lexis-Nexis, BJ's Wholesale Club and Bank of America suffered, he ...

Webroot: Spyware Rampant in the Enterprise

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The number of Web sites distributing malicious software has quadrupled in the last year to more than 300,000, as the spyware problem continues to fester on the Internet, according to an upcoming report from Webroot , an antispyware software company. Webroot Software Inc.'s State of Spyware Report for the second quarter ...

ID Theft Keylogger Examined

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I have had email conversations with a number of people at Sunbelt Software about the ID theft ring they discovered recently. They were kind enough to provide a HijackThis log entry that identifies the keylogger. I promised not to publish it but said I would warn the helpers at the ...

Browser Alternatives Are No Guarantee of Security

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

If you use an alternative browser--Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, or anything not named Internet Explorer--you may be feeling pretty smug these days. Every time you hear about another patch for IE or about another way hackers use that browser to attack unsuspecting Web users, you think to yourself, "I don't have ...