Oct

19

Malware as business

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Bruce Schneier found a very, very interesting series of articles on cio.com called Who’s Stealing your passwords? Global hackers [sic] create a new online crime economy which, apart from the misuse of the word hacker (should, instead, be cracker)that has become so prevalent, is a pretty interesting and deep analysis of what malware has become [...]

Oct

1

Microsoft’s Stealth Update comes back to bite them

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So, do you remember back a couple of months ago when Microsoft decided to sneak an update on everybody, even those that had configured their computers to ask before doing any updates, without a warning? Well, the scandal is back on, because said stealth update has provoked a serious problem for users. According to SecuritiFix’s [...]