Hosted Files blog.

Dance of the Botnets, written 3 days ago, According to researchers Pushdo is the main source of worldwide spam in the absence of the Srizbi and Rustock botnets. http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2008/12/kill-pushdo-to-kill-spam.html Marshal Trace statistics for Week ending November 30, 2008. Graphs...

VISCOMSOFT Online Audio Video Chatting, written 3 weeks ago, VISCOMSOFT Online Audio Video Chatting

Security, policy and law, software development, and more.

Decreasing Email Unsubscription Rates, written 3 weeks ago, As a marriage slips toward divorce, couples often seek out counselors. You can avoid a split if you understand and then address the reasons for drifting apart. So it is with email. If you understand why people might want to leave a list, yo...

Anti Virus Program blog.

Spyware.iSpyNow, written 2 days ago, Spyware.iSpyNow Threat Level: Spyware.iSpyNow is a commercial keylogger that tracks your emails, chats, instant messages, and every keystroke you type. Spyware.iSpyNow also appears in fake security alerts from rogue anti-spyware software Perfect Defender ...

A blog about Internet security.

Bypassing web filters, written 1 day ago, from HiR Information Report: Combining SSH Tunneling with web proxies is one of the more advanced ways to get past a web filter. You can increase your odds of being able to contact your SSH Server by running it on ports that are more likely to be allowed out...

Rock Phish-ing in December, written 2 days ago, Nothing can warm up the heart of a security researcher better than a batch of currently active Rock Phish domains, fast-fluxing by using U.S based malware  infected hosts as infrastructure provider. What is this assessment of currently active Rock Phi...

Top 5 Advantages to Data Access Network Technology, written 1 week ago, 1) Get critical data from 10GE ports with 1GE tools. 2) Relieve the contention for Span Ports when multiple tool connections are required. 3) Provide a very secure solution that allows flexibility in connecting and disconnecting...

Forensic genomics, written 1 week ago, I recently presented a paper on Forensic genomics: kin privacy, driftnets and other open questions (co-authored with Lucia Bianchi, Pietro Liò and Douwe Korff) at WPES 2008, the Workshop for Privacy in the Electronic Society of ACM CCS, the ACM Computer and Co...

New Kid on the Block: Downadup, written 2 days ago, Many reports on the last few days mention a new worm growing on the back of the Windows’ MS08-067 vulnerability. The worm named Downadup, also being dubbed Conficker.A by Microsoft, as now spread to alarming levels: “We think 500,000 is a ball ...

Ebay Scam - Old but still valid and works!, written 3 days ago, EBay users - Please be aware of false buyers. Recently, my good friend Chris Ho, got hit by old eBay scam. He advertised a laptop and was wishing to sell it before Christmas so he can upgrade to a new one. Unfortunately, the item was ...

My interests are Computer Security, Computer Forensics, and Incident Handling

BuySafe's founder on e-commerce, eBay, economics, entrepreneurship, online fraud, trust, and safety.

Vishing faxes can trick you into phoning for great deals, written 1 week ago, When computer users finally come around to being wary of links and attachments in emails, what does a starving scammer do? They turn to other ways of tricking you into acting based on greed. In this article at the Streetwi...

3 Strikes and the Telecoms Package: What's Going On?, written 6 days ago, I've been unable to keep up with the latest machinations following the pre vote leak earlier this week and the actual vote on Thursday, due to utter deadline crises, but brave LawClanger and Monica Horten are still right in...

Giving up Email, written 4 days ago, How long could you live without email? What would it cost in terms of lost productivity and increased difficulty and expense of communication? I know that I could live without email. I suspect that doing so would significantly decrease my productivity (a sus...

Managed Service for AD Monitoring, written 1 week ago, The engineers at NetVision were incredible visionaries back in 1995 when they built some of the first identity management tools (for Novell-Microsoft sync) and identity audit tools. (check out their site from 1999) Their directory knowledge is u...