The State of the Net is… not so strong
August 7, 2007
Consumer Reports takes a look at the State of the Net and finds that viruses, spyware, and phishing have cost Americans $7 billion over two years and have led 1.8 million households to replace their PCs. That doesn’t even account for all the money people spend to purchase products advertised in spam. Read more
Businesses having second thoughts about Vista
August 5, 2007
No real surprises here - I’m guessing most will stick with XP… it works!
“Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months ago, according to a survey by patch management company PatchLink, while more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X.”
See the full article by Gregg Keizer Framingham.
Rootkits: The next big enterprise threat?
July 31, 2007
Yet another article (albeit back on May 7) on the lack of awareness of current threats:
“Every organisation is aware of the importance of securing core systems, networks and end-user equipment in an increasingly mobile and malware-saturated world. But what most may not realise is the growing threat of malicious software intended to keep its presence hidden from administrators and traditional antivirus software.”
See the full article by Steve Hultquist here.
NoScript, ByteMobile, & Uninvited JavaScript Injection
July 30, 2007
Having just blogged an entry on the threat of poisoned websites, I logged on to techgripe.net over the weekend only to find that an additional piece of JavaScript was trying to execute!
How did I find this? Via a very useful Firefox add-on called NoScript. If you don’t use this I highly recommend it - it really does show you what scripts are attempting to run, as well as allowing you to pick & choose which scripts (if any) you will permit. (A security consultant colleague of mine put me onto this.) Another excellent add-on is FireBug which is much more extensive in revealing what’s going on in the code (aimed at web developers) - this revealed the actual content of the script. Read more
Poisoned websites soar six-fold, Sophos says
July 26, 2007
I am really worried about this trend - the real threat is becoming secretly embedded code in legitimate websites! And these hackers are incredibly good at hiding their code making it difficult even for experts to find.
Symantec release Norton AntiBot
July 18, 2007
Now we’re talking! This article talks about the new product from Symantec. Finally a product that might actually be relevant to today’s threats!
“Symantec has released its AntiBot software to help computer users stop and delete unwanted Trojan Horse programs. Read more
