With last week's high-profile announcement that a new form of spyware called "Flame" is almost certainly a state-developed program, the topics of cyber warfare and state-sponsored snooping have captured attention. At least, they have captured the attention of Google, which today announced that...
Yesterday the White House hosted a meeting of government officials and corporate honchos to discuss a very serious problem. World peace? The economy? No, they met to discuss botnets. What is a botnet? Here's how the Industry Botnet Group, a voluntary group of companies, trade associations and...
The anti-malware research firm, Kaspersky, recently announced they've detected a new spyware infection called Flame. Researchers speculate that Flame, a very sophisticated program, was created as a state-sponsored volley in what seems to be an escalating international cyberwar. Kaspersky...
It's attained the status of legend, wisdom passed down from generation to generation: Macs don't get malware. It's also what you might call an old wive's tale, or a myth. While it has been true that Macs have largely been overlooked by malware perpetrators in favor of the much larger number...
The Federal Trade Commission has released the final version of its report on how companies must handle the privacy of online user data. There are five main areas of focus that the FTC groups its action items into. Business leaders should probably familiarize themselves with at least the existence...
Last year the FBI busted an Estonian crime gang that had been hijacking computers and rerouting them to bogus websites. By infecting as many as half-a-million computers with the DNSChanger trojan, the crooks were able to reap advertising revenue. The FBI's last step in cleaning up after the group's...
