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You ran all the scans, conducted all the tests and yep…you’ve got malware Last month, we detailed steps you could take in those critical and panic-filled moments when you realized that you might have clicked on a malicio...

When it comes to antivirus, how much coverage do you need? Everyone has different concerns when it comes to antivirus coverage. Some people want to circle the wagons and let very little into their networks, while others need so...

A few days ago we encountered a new variant of the Symbian worm, Yxes, that we named SymbOS/Yxes.H!worm. This worm contacts malicious remote servers, which host Java Server Pages, and propagates by sending ‘attractiveR...

Flash exploits targeting the old integer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2007-071) in Flash Player are still relatively active and multiplying on the base of the early versions exploit code, with more or less slight differences. On...

There has been a lot of confusion lately concerning the SymbOS/Yxes worm. Among those, it has now dawned on me the so-called Transmitter.C reported in numerous articles on the net (for instance, here and here), is not sexySpace...

Well that would be the usual boring answer from the guy down at the pub who isn’t really entering in to the spirit of the conversation. How about this one… Be shot out of a cannon - that’s pretty dangerous. Bu...

Not so long ago, I arrived, all fresh and pumping, from a world full of cryptography – you know, RSA, AES, SHA256 etc. – very excited to discover a new face to computer security. It’s always in such situations...