The conficker Botnet is dead some security researchers say but according to Qualys, a security risk and compliance management provider, about 10% of the hundreds of thousands of Windows systems it monitors for customers have not yet applied Microsoft‘s MS08-067 security update. MS08-067, an out-of-band release that shipped in October 2008, patched a bug in the service Windows uses to [...]

A new “trend” on facebook – the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card. You are supposed to go to a Fan page where you great this great offer : If you click through and are one of the first 20,000 people to become Best Buy fans, you’ll get a $1,000 gift card to spend on electronics. In the last few months Facebook [...]

Nicole Richie hack Kim Kardashian and Joel Madden – credit Srami April Fools’ Day joke : Nicole Richie hacked the Twitter accounts for her soon-to-be husband Joel Madden, and Kim Kardashian, a very close friend, as part of an April Fools’ Day gag. We are sure that the 3.2 Million Followers of Kim’s account were surprised to see twett’s like [...]

The Vietnamese government denies it’s involvement in the current cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. “The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” said McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. “The comments are groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said on Monday. [...]

China Internet Network Information Center and China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team have recently released a survey regarding the use of antivirus software. The percentage of Internet users in China with no security software was 4.4 percent last year, up from 3.9 percent the previous year, according to the survey results.  Also CNNIC estimates that 384 million people [...]

Google and Mcafee have announced that they found a new global botnet consisting of potentially tens of thousands of compromised machines that is targeting Vietnamese users in the attempt to silence political activists. Neel Mehta from Google’s security team said that users got infected when they installed  trojans that were masquerading as legitimate Vietnamese keyboard drivers, used to allow Windows [...]