The developers of the DNS Changer trojan have been busy, three generations just in the past year. The newly released version is the one we need to worry about. Learn how to find and combat it.
Getting rooted by a drive-by dropper is fast becoming the predominate method of involuntarily joining a botnet. Simplest way to avoid this is to keep your computers up to date. Easier said than done, well it doesn’t have to be.
In discussions about botnets, how and why a computer becomes part of a botnet are two questions that get asked quite often. Like most things in life, the answers aren’t simple. Michael Kassner sets out to provide some answers about the origins of botnets.
The title says it all. Recently I was up close and personal with a compromised Exchange 2003 email server. It certainly wasn’t fun, but I learned a few things that I’d like to share.
Love it, hate it, use it, Instant Messaging sites and technologies may pose a communications risk to the sensitivity of company information. Here is a perspective on why to block public services and replace with internal offerings.
Many organizations use instant messaging (IM) for departmental and organizational informal communication. This communication can become a hodgepodge mix […]