botnets

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

The way most people remove malicious software from an infected Windows machine can be improved upon.

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The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]

Guest editorial by Oliver DayChinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People’s Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the air, land and sea.  However the PLA was born of asymmetric warfare and [...]