Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011
I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community [...]
Thoughts on Mobile Security and Applications
I had an interesting discussion about mobile systems security and banking over the weekend with some friends from the University of Washington. Here are my thoughts on what is going to be some of the more advanced issues with information security, mobile systems, and the idea that the phone is the new credit card. Few [...]
Understanding VMware vShield Endpoint And Agentless Malware Protection
When I wrote my analysis on VMware’s VMworld 2010 announcements earlier this week, I didn’t cover a product which piqued my interest. It is about VMware’s moves to beef up virtualization and cloud security through their vShield offering. I decided to wait because I wanted to talk to one of VMware’s partners, Trend Micro, before [...]
Cleaning up after Antivirus Soft on Vista
It has been about three years since I caught a computer virus, but a nasty little chunk of malware broke through my browser and Anti-Virus last night called Antivirus Soft. Here is a quick way of cleaning up after being taken out by this rogue chunk of malware in a few easy steps. The cleanup [...]
The Case of the Disappearing Posts – No Malware Here
Well, isn’t it funny Ben just wrote about crutches, and this morning we almost needed them here @ CloudAve… Earlier readers who used the Chrome browser may have been greeted by this warning: Our support team @ Zoho (thanks, guys!) quickly jumped on the case and determined that the CloudAve itself does not contain malware, [...]
Security issues with the iPad.com domain
As Apple prepares to amaze the world with their planned announcement today on whatever it is they are officially going to announce, I decided to take a look at the possible names for the device they are going to announce and see if I could get a sneak peek at the domains that might reflect [...]
Panda Releases Cloud Antivirus
Image via Wikipedia Antivirus on the Cloud is an interesting topic for me. Six months back I was reading a research paper by the researchers at the University of Michigan on the topic of Antivirus on the Clouds (CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud by Oberheide et. al.). They proposed a model where Antivirus [...]
Google Advises Against Visiting their Own Pages
Chances are you got scared away from visiting a webpage this morning by Google’s malware warning: Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer! Suggestions: Return to the previous page and pick another result. Try another search to find what you’re looking for. Or you can continue to http://www.google.com/ at your own risk. [...]
