malware

Malware represents one of the greatest threats that organizations face today and IT departments are coming to understand that their AV tools can only do so much to protect them. When malware is discovered on their systems, they want to know what it might have done, if the threat is still ongoing, and what they might have lost to the infection. Answers can be very tough to find, but reverse engineering the malware might just be the way to provide them.

When a funky Direct Message showed up in my inbox, I had to investigate -- and narrowly missed getting infected with malware. (Kids, don't try this at home.)

The executive director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urges employees and contractors to stop visiting porn sites on MDA computers.

Not everyone believes there are noble motives behind the FBI's plan to shut down temporary Internet servers set up to help victims of the DNSChanger Trojan.

Mapping just one minute of global communications among botnets makes it look as if we've been invaded from outer space, not just infected with malware.

The more interesting a phishing email is the more end users will think about them and the more likely they are to become suspicious. A burst of spam from Russian malware servers disguises itself as the automated delivery of a scan, from a printer, not a person.