In this article I promise deception, technological trickery, impart a bit of knowledge, insight, and all through what I hope to be an interesting read for you. I was browsing through a long list of malicious URL's and I came across an interesting URL that caught my eye, hxxp://www.yahoo550.com/....

by Rossano Ferraris Interestingly the new year 2008 opened its doors with a surprising news in the malware field. Hardware infected? Yes, again malware guys have showed their extraordinary fantasy to spread panic and disasters over the computer world. According to recent reports by SANS Internet Storm...

by Rossano Ferraris Another interesting case I would like to bring to your attention is the effect of the so-called “fake-codec” trojans. Here is what I figured out after searching the phrase “daily dawn” on the Google search engine. The screenshot reflects a blogspot webpage from the search results...

by Rossano Ferraris Users are being infected with malware from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, malware authors are continually refining their technique. As I will show in this write-up, clicking on the results from innocent searches, like looking for a flight, music or news story, can infect your...

In addition to the statement we received this past Friday, we have received further communications from Facebook's privacy department, this time directly addressing the silent data transfer to facebook.com. Hi Stefan, Thanks for clarifying your concerns. You can prevent stories from being generated...

“Creepy”, “stupid”, and “a violation of privacy” are a few ways people have described Facebook’s new advertising system. Facebook Ads introduce both a privacy concern and an annoyance factor, and give the user only marginal control over the annoyance concern and zero control over the privacy concern...

by Rossano Ferraris The other day spammers spread two interesting emails to users throughout the Internet and attempted to make users believe these emails originated from Microsoft. The emails contained an alert that advised users of an undiscovered vulnerability in the Kodak Image Viewer and a new 0...

by Rossano Ferraris Bin Laden's cyber legions are fighting back? It is a bit hard to understand what comes out from cyber-criminal minds but what is sure is that once we hear about e-jihad, security researchers are requested to keep their eyes very open making a full immersion of investigation activity...

Just how dangerous is the Internet? We have all heard stories about Government websites being hacked, financial banking scams and malware that encrypts your data and holds it hostage. Did you know that just owning a computer and having it online puts you at risk of being a pawn in a criminal enterprise...

A famous quotation from the The Art of War is "If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories." A malware author following the principles of Sun Tzu might say "If you know both yourself and your victim and use social engineering...