Matthew Hines

Renowned botnet researcher Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks offers up some interesting new data in a recent blog posting over at CircleID on the fast-flux networks being used to prop up botnet activity. One of the most interesting new angles is that there are actually not that many fast-flux nets in use, but they are […]

Guess who else figured out that RIM’s BlackBerry ecosystem is the most secure wireless business platform out there? Yep, it’s the cyber-criminals. According to an interesting piece typed up earlier this week by reporters at The Vancouver Sun, law enforcement types with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have found that greater numbers of criminals have […]

The trend for ages has been for hackers and malware distributors to tap into current events to more effectively target their attacks at end users, and just like everyone else, when the bad guys want to know what’s hot, news-wise, they’re heading right over to Google. In a recent report published by Webroot, researchers with […]

Bucking some reports to the contrary, which find spam levels incrementally increasing over time, MessageLabs’ latest research paper claims that unsolicited e-mail dropped noticeably during Q3 2008, driven in part by the shutdown of a nefarious ISP. Despite the fact that the MessageLabs Intelligence Report for September/third quarter 2008 aligns the lowered volumes of spam […]

Adware volume jumped during Q3 of 2008, driven largely via the use of schemes involving fake anti-virus programs, security researchers report. According to PandaLabs’ Q3 Quarterly Report, over 31 percent of the malicious programs tracked by the company between July 1 and September 30 ’08 were adware applications that attempt to load themselves onto end […]

Well, it seems that ICANN has indeed been listening to security researchers that have been increasingly critical of certified registrars that appear to be letting cybercriminals abuse their services. Or it has in fact been moving to enforce its rules of operation for registrars a bit more aggressively. Earlier this week, ICANN issued so-called “breach […]

With a long road to go in the official race for the White House, Democratic candidate Barack Obama is already putting a sound beating to his Republican counterpart John McCain, in the arena of spam generation, that is. And no, we’re not talking about all those plaintive e-mails showing up in your personal inbox asking […]

So, it’s been confirmed that the Chinese government has been eavesdropping on politically sensitive Skype conversations conducted by and with its citizens, but is anyone truly surprised by this? I guess by writing this I’m officially throwing away any chance of ever visiting this country I’m so fascinated by, but when we live in a […]

Today is the day that the latest iteration of the PCI Data Security Standard, version 1.2, officially hits the streets, and eWeek Security Watch was recently offered the unique opportunity to sit down with Bob Russo, General Manager of the PCI Council, to chat about what the new version of the standard means, and how […]

Data loss is most often blamed on ingenious hackers and technical complexity within enterprise businesses, but many incidents are instead related to faulty user behavior and careless mistakes, according to a new report published by networking giant Cisco. According to the report issued on Tuesday, which is based on interviews carried out with 2,000 workers […]