Ethical hacking site falls victim to hackers
Securecomputing.net.au
Just for fun". The hack was reported on the blog of security company Sunbelt Software. Comments on the blog made by "HD" - thought to be Metasploit creator H D Moore -said that Metasploit had fallen foul of ARP poisoning. "Another customer ...
One year on, Conficker worm claims 7 million infected computers
InfoWorld
The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone: It has now infected more than 7 million computers, security experts estimate. On Thursday, researchers at the volunteer-run Shadowserver Foundation logged computers from more than 7 million...
Conficker worm infects 7 million computers
PC Advisor
Malware still going strong after one year The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone. It has now infected more than 7 million computers, security experts estimate.
5 Tips and Tricks for Home Networks
US News and World Report
Paid software can do the same thing more speedily, including Vipre from Sunbelt Software that adds spyware protection on all PCs in a home for $50 a year. Or Norton Internet Security 2009, which provides numerous protections for 3 PCs at $7...
To Save The Earth, Are YOU a Solartopian?
Common Dreams
Paul is largely a "sunbelt" style city as far as it's sprawling suburban development. But I have trouble believing transit ... The free and open source software movements. On the contrary, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that collecti...
Snopes.com stops serving adware
Computerworld
That pop-up, said Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software, in turn shilled ad-serving software from Zango Inc., a well-known adware distributor that settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in late 2006 over charges it used unfair an...
Fake antivirus attacks rise
Securecomputing.net.au
... and system preferences to display phony alert messages and instigate fraudulent system scans in an attempt to purchase the non-functioning security tools. New rogue security applications have also been discovered in recent days by Sunb...
Is Facebook's $711M Spam Award Just Monopoly Money?
E-Commerce Times
Social networking site Facebook has been awarded US$711 million in damages from prolific spammer and social network scammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding its users with spam, Facebook attorney Sam O'Rourke reported in a blog post. Judge Je...
Microsoft Files Lawsuit Against Scareware Scammers
Redorbit.com
We've repeatedly proven that Internet companies that prey on consumers' anxieties are within our reach." Eric Sites, the chief technology officer with security firm Sunbelt Software, which tracks spyware and malware threats, says the proble...
Obama's $150 Billion `Cleantech' Pledge Lures Deal-Hungry VCs
Bloomberg
... companies in the U.S. that turn out solar panels printed like newspapers, biofuel distilled from wood chips and software that ... In his policy proposal, the senator pledged to invest $150 billion over 10 years to develop solar farms i...
Defensive Computing
CNET News
Now, from Sunbelt Software comes this warning about the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 and Windows XP SP3. In a nutshell, if you install the first beta version of IE8, then upgrade Windows XP from SP2 to SP3, then upgrade to the second...
Cyber crime to soar as Halloween approaches
vnunet.com
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 28 October 2009 at 00:37:00 Spam emails and fake greetings to bring more malware Security experts are warning users and administrators to be wary of unsolicited email messages in the days...
Paul McFedries From Que Publishing and Richard Rabins From Alpha Software to Be Featured on Let's Talk Computers (R)
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
NASHVILLE, TN--(Marketwire - 10/30/09) - Guests from Que Publishing and Alpha Software will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a Pear...
Microsoft Fights Back on Scareware Vendors
Softpedia
Scareware is a name used to describe software which is marketed through fake security alerts or notifications. These messages ... Alex Eckelberry, president of security vendor Sunbelt, who has been tracking these products for a while now an...
Microsoft, Washington state to sue 'scareware' pushers
Computerworld
The most prevalent scareware program in circulation today is software called Antivirus XP 2008, according to Alex Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt Software Inc. Often installed on a PC without proper notification, the software bombards vict...
