If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more...
By Steve Ragan he malware responsible for attacks on at least 30 local governments, universities, and businesses in the Netherlands, Dorifel (XDocCrypt), is still actively spreading and causing new infections, despite a wide net of detection within the anti-Virus...
The malware that some people are calling Dorifel or XDocCrypt (ESET detects it as Win32/Quervar.C and has a cleaner for it here) is having enormous impact right now, mostly in the Netherlands. It has some very interesting characteristics – it infects documents (and...
Want to access the music tracks of YouTube.com videos on your iPod but don’t want to pay? You’re not alone. Recently, a crop of websites have popped up offering to convert the audio from videos to .mp3 files that you can then download at no charge. Sounds great,...
If you are getting less spam, that could be because cybercriminals no longer control the third largest spam botnet – according to the NetworkWorld article below: Cybercriminals no longer control the third largest spam botnet, researchers say Cybercriminals no...