Earlier today, Trend Micro Technical Account Manager Fioravante Souza in Brazil spotted a (potentially harmful) URL that redirects users from the Best Buy domain site. Users who visit www.bestbuy.com, as it turns out, are redirected to the URL,...

Michael Jackson has been dead for a week already, but there are still a lot of speculations regarding his death. The spam runs are plenty as well — a Michael Jackson-related spam was seen bearing the subject Who killed Michael Jackson?, coming from a...

Exactly three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download...

On June 23, Jakob Nielsen posted an article declaring that password masking on the user interface is more harmful in terms of usability than helpful to the security of an application to which Bruce Schneier, in a June 26 blog post agreed. Both argued...

Cybercriminals once again used the passing of Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ a few days ago as an opportunity to go about with their malicious activities and attack innocent users. We spotted an email (see Figure 1 below) about Michael Jackson’s...