The scareware slinger’s cookbook The techniques used by unloveable rogues who automate search engine manipulation attacks themed around breaking news to sling scareware have been unpicked by new research from Sophos.… Read more…
Not Aurora, still a pain Hackers used malware to establish a botnet in Vietnam as part of an apparently politically motivated attack with loose ties to the Operation Aurora attacks that hit Google and many other blue chip firms late last year, according to new research from McAfee and Google.… Read more…
Play hardball fast, advises Anderson Noted banking security expert Ross Anderson was forced to threaten action in the small claims court before his bank agreed to refund a disputed transaction.… Read more…
Drive-by download risk prompts out-of-sequence patch Microsoft has announced plans to release an out-of-sequence patch, designed to resolve a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.… Read more…
Be careful what you invite in Miscreants have begun creating malware that overwrites software update applications from Adobe and others.… Read more…