If you would really like to be infected by malware, the best place to go these days is amazon.com! According to a quarterly report for Q2 2014 by Solutionary’s Security Expert Research Team (SERT), Amazon hosts 41% of all malware identified by SERT’s honeynet. A honeynet is...
According to Homeland Securities Computer Emergency Repsone Team (US-CERT) SpamTitan contains a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. SpamTitan is a server system for monitoring email and reducing spam email and other threats. The vulnerability was found in the...
Contributors: Ionel Pomana, Kevin Judge Video games have played an important role in the history of computers and are a significant reason for their popularity as a consumer product. Families had video game players in their homes long before they had personal computers. The...
Ransomware is quickly becoming the scourge of the Internet and Cisco Systems is reporting that several very popular web sites have recently been distribution points via malvertising. According to an investigation detailed on the Cisco Systems blog site, popular web sites inc...
The good news is that an international effort to disrupt two of the most notorious criminal botnets was announced this week. The bad news is that more than a million unwitting participants in these networks and other potential victms have only a few weeks before the networks...
The case for a containment strategy to defend against malware grew even stronger this week with reports that hackers are using vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Silverlight animation plug-in to deliver malware. In recent years, numerous exploits found in Adobe Flash and Java ha...
Improving privacy and security while browsing has been a major objective for Comodo in recent product releases and enhancements, and a Senate subcommittee report yesterday highlights the need. The report warns of the dangers of malicious advertising, so called malvertising,...
Most of the malware created these days is designed to generate income to the malware authors. That’s not a surprise, but it is amazing how creative these digital criminals can be. At Comodo AV Labs we observe and analyze the many schemes, tricks and methods they use to acqui...
How can conventional antivirus scanners deal with a tidal wave of new malware each day? The short answer is – they can’t. Independent tester AV-Test Labs recently estimated that there are up to 55,000 new malware variants released into the wild each day. Other security...
Over the past 6 months US retailers and American consumers have been rocked by a string of high profile Point of Sale System card data breaches, starting with the massive breach at Target last December. Now, the retail arts & crafts supplier Michaels Stores and their cus...
