BBC botnet buy: What were they thinking?
By Roel Schouwenberg As Dancho Danchev pointed out, the BBC leased itself a botnet [zdnet.com]. I couldn’t quite believe it when I read it. The BBC, arguably one of the very best TV producers in the...
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The Twitter worm that isn’t
By Roel Schouwenberg On Saturday an alert went out about a new Twitter worm. Could this have been another XSS-Worm? Upon clicking the link users would see the following: However that's not all that...
View ArticleSome Researchers Lack Basic Ethics
By Roel Schouwenberg Once upon a time we were living in a world where creating malware, then still called viruses, was a very bad thing to do. These days, people seem much more relaxed with the idea of...
View ArticleTwitter and Adobe Struggle With Security
By Roel Schouwenberg On Tuesday we got another DDoS attack on Twitter. A lot of people are asking why Twitter doesn't seem to be coping with attacks like these. And at the same time there are more and...
View ArticleHere’s How to Fix Online Banking Fraud
Guest editorial by Roel SchouwenbergOver the last few months, there's been quite a lot of news chatter around Banker Trojans emptying out online bank accounts of small businesses in the U.S. Today, I...
View ArticleAV Scans Slowing Down Your Machine? Think Again
By Roel Schouwenberg As a technology enthusiast -- or geek -- I always enjoy looking into new technologies. Although it's no longer directly cutting edge, I recently started exploring the wonderful...
View ArticleWhich is the Real ZeuS Botnet?
By Roel Schouwenberg, Kaspersky LabAmongst some others the Zeus bot is one of the most prolific bots in the wild and in the media. Lately there has been quite a few reports on the aspects surrounding...
View ArticleAndroid App Makers Should be Held Accountable
Google's response to the recent discovery of malicious apps in the Android market place is proof that we're now entering a new phase in malware mitigation. Can you imagine Microsoft automatically...
View ArticleTen Reasons The Diginotar Breach Will Be Bigger Than Stuxnet
by Roel SchouwenbergEditor's note: This story was reposted from Securelist.com.In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to...
View ArticleJava: The OSX and Cross-Platform Nightmare
By Roel SchouwenbergFor a few days now I've been asking myself the following question: Which is more important: The fact we had a 500k-strong OSX botnet fly under the radar or the culprit that enabled...
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