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It’s that time of year again when most admins get more nervous about computer security. Why? April 1st is looming, and often malware is implanted on victims machines with an internal timer set to unleash its effects on April Fools Day. Conficker is the perfect example. It is a dangerous computer worm that has targetedRead more

Reported last week in PC Pro, leading security firms AVG and Symantec have been accused of ripping off their customers by cutting short their AV subscriptions once they had upgraded to different versions of the software. How? Believe it or not, pop-ups and email were the mechanisms used to dupe customers into taking discounts onRead more

Catch a lizard by the tail and it will shed its tail and run free. This is a fun fact of nature (even more fun when you’re a kid) and a very clever trick to fend off a predator’s attacks. And did you know that if you try to catch a botnet, chances are theRead more

A Honeypot is, by definition(1),(2), a decoy or a trap whose purpose is to detect and identify unauthorized use in order to prevent breaches. In Email Security, a Honeypot is a SMTP server setup to process a single domain (or multiple domains)  to gather emails all day long.  Let’s examine two methods used by emailRead more

Botnets are a fascinating piece of software yes, they really are! Although they lie deep in the ‘dark’ stack of widespread tools that are used to perpetrate cyber-crimes, they really shine as well-engineered structures. They are forced to constantly evolve because of the current and on-going ‘arms-race’ between security experts and cyber-criminals. Think about itRead more