Virus

Yahoo to integrate with McAfee to make the web safer

Posted by Paul Godden on May 6, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Those of you who use the McAfee SiteAdvisor plugin for Firefox, will be aware of how McAfee are helping to protect users from malicious sites. The plugin notifies users with a simple colour coding that allows users to visually work out if a website has been reported for malware or spyware attacks. The plugin works [...]

storm virus set to infect millions of computers

Posted by Paul Godden on October 4, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Even though, apparently, this virus has been "wild" for a year now, it appears that the recent study of it’s activities is getting a lot of attention. I’ll summarise what makes this virus different from others before it. The full article can be found at the end of this post: For one reason, the virus [...]

hacking kit infects 10,000 websites+

Posted by Paul Godden on June 23, 2007 at 9:40 am

It has been revealed that a hacking kit, written by a russian hacking group, has been sold for hackers to create their own malicious code, has been implicated in 10,000 website infections. The kit which costs $1,000 has been used by hackers to infect legitimate websites, which if the latest patches are not installed in [...]

hackers are us

Posted by Paul Godden on April 30, 2007 at 2:55 pm

Just say that you were part of a Private Investigation company.. And also suppose that you decided to create a different branch to your business.. And let’s just say that this new company used social engineering techniques and trojans on emails to get information from people! What would you call it? Of course you would [...]

apple software hacked

Posted by Paul Godden on April 24, 2007 at 9:32 pm

See? Apple aren’t “hacker proof” as many mac users will have you believe. Being an IT professional, I’m not dumb enough to assume an OS is free from holes and security flaws, I guess it’s just a shame that Mac fan-boys don’t see the potential problem of their blind trust. Back on topic, a flaw [...]

yoggie security

Posted by Paul Godden on September 27, 2006 at 7:18 pm

This is probably one of the neatest and smallest contained security computers I’ve seen ever. Not only does it look really cool, but does everything you would need to keep the internet safe. Included with this miniture computer is a Firewall, Anti-spam/phishing, Virus scan, Spyware and all sorts of other things. Being an IT professional [...]

mcafee site advisor – firefox plugin

Posted by Paul Godden on August 7, 2006 at 7:36 pm

OK, I stumbled upon this the other day (not to be confused with [stumbleupon.com]) and decided to download to give it a trial. Anything that’s free and will help you avoid those god-damn phising assholes deserves my attention (and hopefully yours!) I’ve just given it a quick trial, and I’m pretty sure that’s all that’s [...]

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