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February 9, 2010 1:23:04 AM CET

Oops… It wasn’t a Trojan – For many years I have taught people that they really need to back up their data. Sometimes malicious software destroys data and a good back up is one defense against that type of attack, but more often data is lost due to many other reasons. In addition to backing up your data you need to [...]

May 21, 2010 8:21:12 PM CEST

Should I Stay or Should I Go? – I don’t really want to leave ESET, but IBM needs me. Several years ago Microsoft had a serious problem with viruses in its software. I was given the task of making it go away. It started with retail software. My job was to make sure none of the retail software Microsoft released was infected. Then came [...]

December 22, 2009 10:26:21 PM CET

Some People Just Don’t Get It – I read an article on the Newsweek Blog today http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2009/12/22/antivirus-under-attack-from-polymorphic-threats-and-you.aspx In the blog the author states “Individuals and corporate users are storing less data on their hard drives and more in the cloud — remote servers, operated by giants like Google and Amazon. With less valuable data on individual PCs, the need for virus protection could [...]

July 6, 2010 3:10:00 AM CEST

Resignation Of Barack Obama Virus Hoax – Message warns recipients not to open an email with a subject or attachment titled "Resignation Of Barack Obama" or "Postcard From Bejing" because it contains a virus that will destroy the hard drive on the infected computer.

July 9, 2010 3:45:00 AM CEST

Black in the White House Virus Hoax – Message warns that an email attachment named "Black in the White House" or "Black Muslim in the White House" contains a damaging computer virus that can destroy the hard drive of the infected computer.

May 13, 2003 2:00:00 AM CEST

IBM AIX Multiple Unspecified Security Vulnerabilities – Type: Vulnerability. IBM AIX versions 4.3 through 5.2.0 vulnerable to multiple issues in print sub-system; may result in privilege escalation or other attacks.

March 1, 2010 3:12:24 PM CET

Get avast! Free Antivirus or a „free“ upgrade with the Alureon rootkit – avast! Free Antivirus can be downloaded for free from our servers or from other download servers such as download.com, 01.fr and others.  But why limit yourself to avast! Free Antivirus if there are other products available with additional functionality that can be downloaded for free? At least, that is what some people are thinking. Last week when [...]

August 25, 2010 2:58:57 AM CEST

Insecure Library Loading in OS and Applications – While reading Microsoft’s confirmation of the DLL preloading risks in arbitrary Windows applications vulnerability, somehow it reminded me of the wave of LD_PRELOAD vulnerabilities that were exploited many years back on multiple non-Windows-based systems. It’s not a new class of vulnerability; the recent LNK file zero-day was probably the last biggest flaw that allows untrusted [...]

July 1, 2010 11:54:29 PM CEST

Do You Have a Process? – USB thumb drives, such as those pictured below from www.promotionalpro.com, are very popular marketing item, but oftentimes people are not aware of the digital risks these devices can present. In recent years many USB devices have been sold or given way only to be found to be pre-infected from the factory. At a recent security [...]

July 1, 2010 11:54:29 PM CEST

Do You Have a Process? – USB thumb drives, such as those pictured below from www.promotionalpro.com, are very popular marketing item, but oftentimes people are not aware of the digital risks these devices can present. In recent years many USB devices have been sold or given way only to be found to be pre-infected from the factory. At a recent security... Read more.

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