Merijn, the creator of HijackThis recently sold the popular application used to remove malware to Trend Micro. In addition to improvements like support for Windows Vista, they’ve added a deceptively titled “AnalyzeThis” button. While the average user likely thinks the AnalyzeThis button provides helpful information for diagnosing their log, it’s main purpose is to send [...]

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Malicious code attacks over instant messaging networks are up almost 80 percent over last year, according to a new study from vendor Akonix. In July, the company, which develops IM hygiene and compliance appliances and services, said it uncovered 20 malicious code attacks over IM in July. The total number of threats for 2007 so [...]

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Microsoft is joining Ask.com in offering Web surfers a way to use its search engines anonymously, and the two companies are now calling on the search and online advertising industry to develop a common set of privacy practices.
By year’s end, Microsoft will give users a way to search anonymously on its Microsoft Windows Live Web [...]

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It’s such a tremendously bad idea that it’s almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an “advertising framework” that uses “context data” from your hard drive to show you advertisements and “apportion and credit advertising revenue” to ad suppliers in real time. Yes, Redmond wants to own the patent [...]

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In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger–call it fedware–to record the typing of a suspected Ecstasy manufacturer who used encryption to thwart the police.
A CNET News.com survey of 13 leading antispyware vendors found that not one company acknowledged [...]

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Trojans represented 83 percent of the new malware that emerged in the second quarter of 2007, and 26 percent of the infections detected by ActiveScan, Panda Software’s online scanner, in the same period. This makes Trojans the cornerstone of the current malware model.
In 2006, Trojans represented 22 percent of the infections detected by ActiveScan, compared [...]

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Google’s security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threaten the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.
“This is as bad as it gets,” said Chris Gatford, a security expert from penetration testing firm Pure Hacking.
“It’s a pretty significant weakness, which will have a considerable impact if the exploit [...]

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Hey all, if you recall, back in April we released the PREVIEW version of our new portal affectionately known as the Microsoft Malware Protection Center Portal. Since then we’ve received loads of feedback from customers and partners on what they like about the portal and the features they really want to see now and [...]

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Intel’s Core 2 CPUs shipped through April contain an unprecedented number of potentially serious security flaws, and the chip giant isn’t releasing enough information to allow developers to assess or work around them, according to OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt.De Raadt issued a blistering missive Wednesday on an OpenBSD listserv, writing: “These processors are buggy [...]

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Hackers are targeting senior managers of large firms - along with members of their families - in a new wave of highly-focused email attacks.
On 26 June, net security services firm MessageLabs intercepted more than 500 individual email attacks targeted against individuals in senior management positions. The attack email often featured the name and job title [...]

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