When a Country's Spam Stirs National Attention
09 2010
  Cybersecurity and anti-spam efforts are slowly reaching the highest levels of governmental attention globally, and not before their time. Case in point: The governmental organization responsible for the top-level domains in Latvia, NIC.lv, had a... Read more...

Media Firms Accused of Using Spyware on Children & Adults
09 2010
Two recently filed lawsuits have been causing a bit of a stir lately. The defendants are some of the biggest players of the media world, and they have been accused by a group of parents, on behalf of their children, of using Flash cookies (local,... Read more...

What SEC Filings Don't Say About 'Bad Hosts'
09 2010
When Thomas Jefferson said, “Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce,” he probably did not mean that money should trump morality. But questions of both money and morality might be asked about at least two Internet-based commercial... Read more...

New DNS Solution Could Help Us Regain Web Control
08 2010
“Most new domain names are malicious,” is certainly a bold and attention-grabbing opening line. Although not the author, I can, however, lend support to these words from Paul Vixie, president of Internet Systems Consortium, a provider of... Read more...

Top 50 Bad Hosts, Q2 2010
07 2010
  HostExploit is pleased to present the Q2 2010 report on the ‘Top 50 Bad Hosts and Networks’. At rank #1 in the report, Demand Media/eNom (USA) earns the label of ‘worst host’ from security analysts at HostExploit, taking over the top spot... Read more...

Router Hacking, Warkitting Take Stage at Black Hat
07 2010
Router hacking and modem security is in the news again, thanks to a presentation at Black Hat in Las Vegas this week and to the associated sensational press response. Whether at home or in the enterprise, invariably modems and routers are overlooked... Read more...

Security Lessons From the 'Adult' Web
07 2010
Any discussions regarding the online adult, or porn, industry provoke polarized views. It is not an easy subject to approach from any angle, due to the taboo on these sites, which also has benefited cybercriminals, who very quickly learned in the... Read more...

BlackEnergy Exploit Kit Makes Off With the Loot
07 2010
Russian and Ukrainian banks have recently been on the receiving end of an updated version of a homegrown exploit kit, BlackEnergy. BlackEnergy has been known about since 2007, when Arbor Networks Inc. traced its botnets to the Russian underground... Read more...