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...

On December 29, Rob Harles, the SVP for Sears' SHC, submitted a comment to my post titled: " Sears Update: Response to Rob Harles, VP SHC Community ", here is his comment in its entirety. I follow his comment with my response and disappointment. By way of reference, here are my three previous...

In my blog post yesterday I reported that there was a significant change in how the privacy policy for My SHC Community reads - replacing straightforward language with vague legal language (see section: The Privacy Policy). What I have come to learn is that if you navigate to http://www.myshccommunity...

Update to this blog here . While Christmas shopping online this season, be careful what you are signing up for. Visiting Sears.com (and Kmart.com) a few weeks ago, I was offered a chance to join My SHC Community, for free, but what I received was, from a privacy perspective, very costly. Sears.com is...

“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...