Matthew Hines

SQL injection isn’t anything new, but it’s still a big enough issue that hackers have been using the time-honored technique to assail some fairly high-profile sites of late, and lots of them, including that of AV vendor Kaspersky only just today. And, according to IBM, SQL injection attacks leapt by an astonishing 30x over the […]

Well, here’s what we learned from the McColo experiment that was so cleverly pulled together by Washington Post blogger Brian Krebs and some other smart folks in the name of stemming malware-laden spam e-mail – attacking spam at its source can work, but, seemingly, not for too long. When Krebs et al convinced upstream Internet […]

You can’t emphasize it enough when you see the numbers – we continue to be pelted with record amounts of malware code, forcing security vendors to engage in an increasingly sprawling game of cat-and-mouse. According to a blog post authored by researchers with McAfee’s Avert Labs, the company will soon crest the 500,000 mark for […]

We’ve heard a lot about savvy attackers marrying both physical and online tactics as part of their efforts to increase the levels of social engineering going into their nefarious schemes. Now someone appears to have pulled together badware distribution with one of the modern world’s other most loathsome scourges, that being, parking tickets. Sidenote: You […]

Spam and e-mail-borne malware attacks surged over the first month of 2009, with worm viruses back on the radar and unsolicited junk mail piling up across the board, according to filtering specialists AppRiver. According to the company’s research into messaging patterns recorded during January, the overall volume of e-mail processed by AppRiver increased by over […]

Researchers at messaging security specialist Cyveillance have issued results of a new report that contends that a majority of today’s cutting-edge malware and phishing threats are capable of circumventing most popular AV and browser filtering technologies. Echoing the findings of similar research project conducted by vulnerability experts at Secunia in mid-2008, the Cyveillance paper maintains […]

Seeing yourself on a TV show, albeit one that is in likelihood not being viewed by that many people other than those you’ve spammed about it, is always humbling for so many reasons. I’ve always preferred the faceless anonymity of print and radio so much more than sitting in front of any camera, even just […]

We all saw what the concentrated efforts of a group of politically minded hackers could accomplish in 2007 when Russian attackers took a wide swath of Estonian Web sites offline in response to perceived affronts against the Russian national image by its smaller neighbor. In the wake of the event, as the Estonian government and […]

If you ever wondered just how much spam and malware most companies have to deal with in managing their e-mail systems, well, it turns out it’s even more than you might have thought. For, according to a new study issued by researchers at AV specialists Panda, the astonishing amounts of spam and malware attacks that […]

Anti-virus software maker ESET has gone to the trouble of publishing its postmortem regarding the most ubiquitous and dangerous threats that its experts encountered during 2008. As in other vendors’ reviews, phony AV programs ruled as the leading threat method, however, ESET also highlights several other emerging trends, such as attacks that use Windows’ Autorun […]

Microsoft has introduced a release client version of its latest browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), and the new iteration of the application includes several security improvements, including a noteworthy attempt to address the emerging problem of clickjacking attacks. For those who don’t recall, clickjacking is a relatively new technique — first detailed in mid-2008 by […]

The big tipping point in the evolution of the mobile malware landscape may be on the horizon, literally and figuratively. In an interesting blog post on its Malware City research site, experts from AV specialist BitDefender make a good case for just how development of the Chinese wireless market could indeed provide such a milestone. […]