Reading Time: 3 minutes A botnet, a network of unwillingly controlled computers, is sometimes called a Zombie network. That’s because, like “real zombies” the computer owners aren’t aware of what has happened to them. In the case of the Kelihos botnet, a better term might be a Vampire network. The network has been “killed” several times, but always manages to…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s often said “What’s old is new again”. The well-known ZeuS banking trojan is back again, but this time it is being spread as a 64 bit version. In fact, the 64bit version was embedded in the old 32bit version. If the Trojan senses that the target browsers 64bit it will inject the appropriate version….

Reading Time: 2 minutes When we think of an “arms race” we usually think of advances in weaponry that cause death and destruction. It seems that there is a very different type of arms race underway that deals with bits and bytes instead of bombs and bullets. The security firm FireEye believes that an IE vulnerability has been recently…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Internet site security requires a layered approach, at least if you want to sleep well at night! No single layer provides 100% protection. Encryption ensures that no one can “listen in” on a conversation between a browser and a web server. However, hackers may be able to divert or send a user to a fraudulent…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Delivering multiple updates and security fixes, a new version of the popular browser from Mozilla has arrived this week. Firefox version 26 has at least 14 security fixes integrated into it and introduces default click to play for plug-ins, initially for Java applications. This feature blocks Java applications by default, requiring user approval to play….

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Domain Name System is fundamental to the functioning of the internet and works so well that we rarely consider how it works. Most people do not even realize that we have options to choose from that can improve our internet performance and enhance our security. Before I get to the choices, let’s review DNS. What is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo announced last week that our Comodo Internet Security Premium (CIS) software earned a 100% protection score in the most recent evaluation period of AV-Test.org. Comodo made significant improvements to its false positive rate by decreasing the number of false detections of legitimate software as malware from nine to only two. Although six security products…

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the country begins the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which coincides with the government effort to digitize medical records, it is disconcerting to note that the track record of government in data security is pretty awful. There has been a lot of news recently about the potential security vulnerability of the healthcare.gov…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo announced today announced that their Cloud-based AntiSpam Gateway (ASG) service filtered its 50 millionth email on Sunday, December 1, 2013. To-date, ASG has filtered 50,911,110 emails of which 37,954,073 were found to be spam and over 140,000 viruses were blocked by ASG. Live statistics are available of the Antispam website found here http://www.comodo.com/business-security/email-security/antispam-gateway.php

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Facebook monitoring system and data analysis technologies have been become very controversial over privacy concerns. They are even being criticized by Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Sir Tim has been urging companies and countries to make data collection a transparent process so that everyone knows what’s going around them. Now,…