Showing posts with label malware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label malware. Show all posts
19 September 2013

Clueless Spanish Politicians Want To Join The Government Malware Club

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As we've noted before, when it comes to the Internet, governments around the world have an unfortunate habit of copying each other...

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?

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Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is alread...
18 September 2013

The Most Dangerous Windows Infection of All

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Readers of this blog don't need to be told about Windows' awful security record, or how, when news outlets talk glibly of "v...

Mozilla Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Commercial Spyware Company For Using Firefox Trademark And Code To Trick Users

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Techdirt has written several times about the increasing tendency for governments around the world to turn to malware as a way of spying ...
10 February 2013

Australia's Spies Want To Put Members Of The Public At Risk By Using Them To Pass On Malware to Suspected Terrorists

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Last year we wrote about the German police using malware to spy on members of the public. Now ASIO, Australia's national secret serv...
08 December 2012

Stuxnet's Infection Of Chevron Shows Why 'Weaponized' Malware Is A Bad Idea

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The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints . It...
13 October 2012

Creepy Smartphone Malware Re-creates Your Home For Stalkers

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It's become something of a cliché that anyone with a mobile phone is carrying a tracking device that provides detailed information ab...
16 December 2011

People in Glasshouses (With Windows) Shouldn't Throw Stones

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It's no secret that Windows Phone is struggling desperately in the battle against the smartphone leaders, iPhone and Android. And de...
04 August 2011

One Thing We Know about the Shady Rats

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The news about "Operation Shady Rat" has naturally provoked much interest (as it was intended to....) After all, who could not f...
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04 March 2011

Malware at the Heart of the BBC's Decline

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Anyone who has been following me on Twitter or identi.ca will have noticed that I have a bee in my bonnet - actually, make that a Beeb in ...
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16 December 2010

Microsoft: Hoist by its Own Petard

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I always look forward to reading Microsoft-funded research, because over the years it's evolved into a kind of game. The results - of co...
06 December 2008

NYT Has Clue about Malware

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Following my post below about malware, here's an example of how it might be done: Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know...
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05 December 2008

Misinformed about Malware

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I was moaning recently about the appalling sloppiness when it comes to viruses et al.: they are practically all for Windows, and yet nobody...
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05 November 2008

Another Reason Not to Run Windows

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Windows malware on a computer running Ubuntu? Strange.
06 June 2007

Google Points Finger at Microsoft IIS

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Interesting bit of shin-kicking here : Web sites running Microsoft Corp.'s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicio...
30 May 2007

IE Indeed

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Sigh . Tell me again why people are still using Internet Explorer: It turns out the link installs a malicious post logger that transmits al...
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