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According to this article from F-Secure, there’s a new version of the Zeus crimeware that’s making the rounds that’s evolved yet again, possibly from the source code for version 2.0.8.9 was…

We’ve spoken many, many times about botnets and the many uses cyber criminals have for them and try to make the discussions as realistic as possible but it’s always good…

September will be a relatively light month overall but the Java vulnerability in Java 7 update 7 has really caused some waves. Microsoft On the Microsoft side, the September Patch…

My fondness of the Android Operating System is nothing new (note, I do not *dislike* iOS [the Apple one or ios, the Cisco one], I just prefer Android and like…

Yup, well before a patch is available, Blackhole now has an update to exploit the newly discovered JRE vulnerability.  Details are available over at the F-Secure website here.

At some point yesterday, one of the Cyber Tech Cafe mail server IP Addresses was blacklisted and a large number of emails were rejected by receiving servers.  We have isolated…

According to this article from F-Secure, a new vulnerability has been found in the Java Runtime Environment and is currently being integrated into several toolkits.  The article is very well…

We knew it was coming, but this article from Ars Technica does a good job of reminding folks of the importance of making sure that their updates are installed (and…

One of my favorite Linux distributions is Backtrack.  Backtrack is a penetration testing distribution and includes (among a *lot* of other things) the Metasploit framework, which is the tool that…