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Skype trojan
After two days of confussion, it seems that the skype-related piece of malware is not really a worm, but a trojan, though there can be different points of view:…
Are you planning to hack in Spain? Think twice…
The Spanish law has taken another step forward. From now on, hacking into systems is a criminal act. This will include attacks against intimacy as well…
A very large malware honeynet
As of today approximately 4.5 million PCs are running a malware honeypot on their machines with Panda's behavioural-based Host Intrusion Prevention System (aka TruPrevent©). All…
Skype or sk-hype worm?
There is a rumour about a possible skype worm being active. So far, all we have seen is a piece of encripted code which contains…
Is our data safe?
It has been published that over 100 million cases of identity theft have taken place since 2005. This can happen in several ways, but it…
Kids at risk?
The European Union has proposed the ".kid" domain extension for children web sites. The goal is to increase the children's security on the web. Will this…
Rootkit cleaner
Rootkits are normally not visible to traditional AVs since they hide by installing themselves as kernel modules, low level hooks and by patching undocumented OS…