The security analysts at AppRiver reported that they have detected a new malware campaign targeting Facebook. An AppRiver spokesperson explains “What’s unique here is that this virus campaign is also hitting smartphone devices (specifically BlackBerrys at this time) that have the Facebook application/icon installed. In other words, it’s not just utilizing email, but also triggering [...]

Small- and midsized businesses use a lot of third-party Web applications for saving money and using them for embedding expertise that they might not otherwise have. But it can also open up their business and their customers to attack. The recent Network Solutions incident shows how this practice can go very wrong. The Internet domain [...]

The most serious breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive which was inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III informed that malicious code which was placed on the drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself [...]

Certain kinds of malware can “kill” security products in various ways and are known as retroviruses. The fake solution searches for uninstaller information in the Windows registry and launches the right uninstaller for certain legitimate AV solution installed on the system, such as products from Microsoft, AVG, Symantec, Spyware Doctor, and Zone Labs. It then [...]