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Our March 2009 Threat Landscape Report is now available, recapping a month of threat activity from exploits and malware, to spam. Here are some key movements from the report along with comments: After a year long battle, W32/Virut.A finally lands in...

Over the past two years, rarely did a worm get as much attention that Conficker (aka Downadup) is getting now. Its last variant, the infamous W32/Conficker.C, which surfaced in early March and is set to time-bomb on April 1, is literally all over the...

The title of this post could be a nickname for the new breed of Internet worms that attack our networks today. Every new big worm or virus finds a more clever way to disseminate faster than his predecessors. But also the payloads are potentially more...

Back in 2004, several mass mailing worms spread in unprecedented fashion: MyDoom, Bagle, and Netsky. Netsky had instructions to remove MyDoom and Bagle, leaving this message in one of its variants: "We are the skynet--you can't hide yourself

I am sure if you have kids you will recognize this issue. Their friends come round, clutching laptops; we live in a modern age. Of course these friends just absolutely need to get online. That WPA2/TKIP solution and MAC filtering you just had to have...

It looks like we might have the Flocker virus writer's name, age, gender, address, picture, e-mail addresses, IM logins and nicknames. How? Using Google. It all started when we found a nickname in the EPOC executable of the sample. I simply searched...

The Koobface worm scouring Facebook since last July, and which made the headlines again this week, is certainly beginning to redesign the concept of "friend. " The "acquaintance from high school you've never talked to since you added her/him" might n...

While malicious servers hosting "drive-by-install" scripts are continuously evolving, their goal remain the same: to silently drop and run malicious files on the victim's computer. The flaws exploited by those Web Attacks Toolkits have been quite the...

Today was another big milestone in the history of the company I co-founded and I'm very happy to have this opportunity to tell you about it. Fortinet has released FortiOS 4.0, the firmware upgrade for our FortiGate security systems. This release is t...