All in all it was a good year for SMB IT Security. It seems the problems keep coming and get more complicated, but a major theme seems to be materializing…greed. There was a time when most viruses and security issues were Pride related. Hackers from around the globe seeing what they can get away with [...]

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McAfee continues to dominate the endpoint security industry with its Total Protection for Enterprise solution. Leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leader quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.”
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms is based on an assessment of a company’s ability [...]

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Because of the ever-increasing vulnerability of IT systems, and because new and increasingly complex attacks are being devised every day, an organization can face significant challenges in deploying all of the various software components required for security risk management and control.
Besides the cost of the software and updates, total cost of ownership (TCO) considers [...]

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The Web site pretends to be a blog and even have a list of previous’ months entries. None of them work though because they do not exist (all point to “sorry.html” and the whole Web site consists of only a single page about the spammer’s murder):
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Igor Mittuk of McAfee AVERT Labs [...]

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McAfee’s Avert Labs has found more new malware in 2007 than in all of 2005 and 2006 combined. Ok, we are not even 75% through 2007 and we have topped ‘05 & ‘06 combined. It is not getting better out there it is getting worse! All the security in the world is not worth a [...]

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…they just move to new mediums. Waaaay back in 1994, a computer virus hoax known as Good Times was passed around the Internet. While not the first computer virus hoax, it is probably one of…
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Great blog post by Marc Fossi of Symantec about old hoaxes getting new life. I blogged similarly [...]

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Phishers today are targeting the IRS with a large phish attack. So far it is spread over 25 domains. The phish offers victims $109.30 refund directly to their credit card for filling in an online form. How convenient!
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Do not fall for Phishing Spam Scams
This is a great article written by Chris [...]

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Pump-and-dump stock, or penny stock, spam has been around for a long time. Most memorably it has the distinction of being the main deliverable of image spam. Regardless of the morphing or variations it is…
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This is a great little article by Kelly Conley of Symantec that talks about a current stock [...]

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If you’ve recently received an email with an attachment or link, asking you to install a patch or an update from Microsoft, please beware as this is in all probability a hoax and could transfer…
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Spam or Phishing?
The world of security has become blurred. Is the email described in the Symantec blog [...]

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The storm worm has built a botnet of perhaps as many as 10 million PCs using a revolving strategy of current events and eye-grabbing “headlines” to lure victims into what may be the single largest operating botnet. Major security players like Symantec have commented on the situation.
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Anti Virus, Anti Spam, Anti [...]

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