The University of Exeter took the unusual step of temporarily taking its network down this week in response to a virulent virus outbreak. Computers at the south west England university were taken offline on Monday for a clean-up in response to an unidentified malware outbreak, which has since been contained. By Thursday the vast majority [...]

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I just read about the tool Malheur designed for malware analysis. It looks interesting, I don’t know what other tools like this one are out there (if you know some of them, please leave a comment) but it is worth some minutes to read through their page. After thinking some minutes about their approach using [...]

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The malware coder who wrote the sniffer program used in the infamous TJX credit card heist has been jailed for two years. Stephen Watt, 25, from New York, was also order to spend a further three years on probation following his release. He was also ordered to pay $171.5m in restitution. Watts was part of [...]

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2009 was dominated by sophisticated malicious programs with rootkit functionality, Conficker, web attacks and botnets, SMS fraud and attacks on social networks. With the start of 2010 quickly approaching, researchers and analysts from Kaspersky Lab have come up with a list of six predictions for what will be the New Year’s greatest threats and newest [...]

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MessageLabs released their 2009 Annual Security Report, and here is what they have to say about the malware that plagued us in the passing year. 1 of every 286.4 emails carried a virus, which is a decided improvement on 2008, when there was one in every 143.8 emails. This drastic decline is due to a [...]

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