Windows defender is a useful tool to detect and remove the spyware from your computer and give you an ease in an online environment.  It also have capability of updating with latest updates available by microsoft. The benefits which you can avail from this tool is as follow 1- It detects spyware. 2- ...

Be very careful about taking advice from websites. Unless there's a section telling you who runs the site and what their expertise is, they may not have any. Some sites, particularly those with teenage forums, can give dangerous advice. The people trying to help you out are probably well intentioned, but ...

Signature-based detection: Signature-based engines are extremely effective at identifying and blocking known threats. Multiple signature-based engines form an important part of a multi-layered cocktail approach to real time scanning. However, signature-based malware detection only works for known malware. It is not useful for new threats. Additionally, in order to be ...

There are many different ways to classify malware. Most, such as Antivirus vendors, tend to classify by intent (Trojan, worm, mailer, etc…) and several aspects of severity (damage potential, potential of outbreak, and actual outbreak reports). These metrics are usually averaged to create an overall risk rating. To the end ...

In the world of computers, where many of us dwell, there is nothing more disrupting than hearing that there is a new computer threat on the horizon just waiting to find its way onto our systems. In the latest of a never ending line of attacks we have been most ...

Google Analytics is the best free web stsattics software out there. They recently opened registration to anyone, and even the bad guys seem to have noticed: Everyday we see different things that the miscreants develop to make their job easier. Today I was checking the 288th variant of Opanki. ...

Newsday has a story that, if true, is fascinating. They are reporting that using technology supplied by Iran, Hezbollah fighters were able to listen in on Israeli radio communications. They of course used this intel to evade the advancing units and counter attack. “We were able to ...

After a weekend of monitoring here’s what we seem to know about the MS06-040 Worm(s) in the wild: There’s at least two variants in the wild so far (ref) It appears to be primarily targeting Windows 2000 machines (ref) After infecting machines it communicates out via IRC via port 18067 and scans for ...

Metasploit has proof of concept code for exploiting MS06-040. The countdown to the worm begins. Exploit Module: netapi_ms06_040 [MetaSploit.com] Original post by Security Wonk and powered by Img Fly

The day of the primary is a bad day to have your website attacked. It had happened before but this time it looks like a DDOS attack: But the earlier two attacks involved defacements — the hacker altered content on Lieberman’s home page. This time, attackers toppled the Lieberman site ...

Wired has a story out of DefCon picturing Blackberries as the perfect backdoor into your corporate network. Since many cop orations inherently trust the blackberry straight in through their firewalls, it might be worth a read. The program, called proxy, has to be placed on a Blackberry either physically or ...

Our normal scope here is on information based security, but this you gotta see. A new lock-picking technique called “bumping” renders almost all traditional tumbler locks useless with very litte skill or tools. A bump key is a key in which all the cuts are at maximum depth. The picture below ...