Security experts are warning of a phishing attack targeting gamblers on the PartyPoker website.
Emails were spammed out last night purporting to come form the gaming site, which is the largest online poker site in the world.
The spam warns of news about ‘legislation’ affecting online poker players, and asks users to log-in using a compromised link.
‘Dear [...]

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It doesn’t appear to be a good week to be a security site. Spywareinfo.com was unavailable for a couple of days due to the expiration of DNS services provide by ZoneEdit. Complicating matters, Mike Healan the owner of Spywareinfo has been unreachable for some time. LowWaterMark, a resourceful admin from wilderssecurity.com called ZoneEdit and paid for additional [...]

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You’ve taken the leap into Windows Vista, but once in awhile, your heart yearns for the classic features and functionality of XP. Maybe you’ve got software that doesn’t yet work in Vista, or maybe you just want to see how a web site looks in Internet Explorer 6. You could dual-boot XP and Vista, but [...]

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Alcoholics have one, and so do drug abusers. Now people addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step program designed to tackle their obsession.An executive coach in Pennsylvania has devised a plan to teach people how to manage the electronic tool, which some users say can be as much an intrusive waste of time as it [...]

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Microsoft has apologised for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software.
“With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN groups servers.
“SystemDoctor2006 has [...]

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Security site castlecops.com is back online after weathering a sustained DDoS attack at times reaching 1 GB/Sec of malicious traffic directed at it’s server. Prolexic has offered CastleCops free hosting and DDoS mitigation services during the DDoS. Way to go Prolexic!
Welcome back CastleCops!

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About three weeks after launching Windows Vista, Microsoft is on a roll with new and updated versions of its own products that are compatible with Windows Vista.
Microsoft made available on February 19 not only a Vista-compatible version of SQL Server 2005, but also the final version of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 product, which supports Windows [...]

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Security firm Symantec and the Indiana University School of Informatics have discovered a new type of security threat that could leave up to 50 percent of home broadband users susceptible to attack.Called “drive-by pharming,” the threat is focused on home routers, which can be reconfigured and directed to a malicious Web site if default settings [...]

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We’ve been talked about Microsoft’s new tool for remote installation named Windows Deployment Services (or WDS), and Alex told me today that there’s an important security issue in WDS.
The issue is: there’s a full access to the command line (CMD) and full access to the local hard disk (in 3 only minutes!), and that’s without [...]

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The malware commonly known as Winfixer aka Errorsafe is being distributed via MSN Messenger banner advertisements.  This has been reported to secure@microsoft.com and they and the MSN ads team are investigating.
I was originally warned that this is happening by none other than Patchou of Messenger Plus! fame on Thursday 15 Feb 2007 at 7:33:00 am Perth time.  I [...]

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