Monthly Archives: June 2011

This is a really weird story: After setting up its own cyber-warfare team, China’s military has now developed its first online war game aimed at improving combat skills and battle awareness, state press said on Wednesday. After setting up its … Continue reading →

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars. 1280×800 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1200 | 2560×1600 As usual, we’ve highlighted some of the notable malware-related events from years gone by. More here

I’m really getting tired of stories like this: Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And … Continue reading →

Is this malicious campaign familiar to you?   More here

Complete malware analysis is often limited by real-world circumstances. Many of the trojans that we analyze will attempt to connect to a remote server for further instructions. At this point, we know that the software is not legitimate and should … Continue reading →

What a coincidence! The same day I start tumblring, Tumblr users get hit by what seems to be one of the most publicized phishing attacks the social network has seen so far. Yet another phishing attack has resulted in thousands … Continue reading →

The recent online hysteria over the BitCoin virtual money system has attracted the attention not only of those who dream of making money out of thin air but also of cybercriminals who, as usual, want to steal anything they can … Continue reading →

There was a recent report of a malicious Android package installation being hosted on a fake “Android Market”-lookalike site, which was pushed to users from an advertisement link. The distribution strategy itself is not new. We saw variations of this … Continue reading →

There’s some great data on common iPhone passwords. I’m sure the results also apply to banking PINs. More here

AppFence is a technology — with a working prototype — that protects personal information on smart phones. It does this by either substituting innocuous information in place of sensitive information or blocking attempts by the application to send the sensitive … Continue reading →