January 26 1983 - February 19 2012 Tareq was part of the MMPC for several years, in which the social media properties (including this blog) were part of his responsibilities. He was one of those people who make an impact on you from the moment you...

In Windows, the “hosts” file (located in “%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc” directory by default) is often used by malware authors when hijacking websites. The local Hosts file overrides the DNS resolution of a website URL to...

The second of the families added to the February release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is Win32/Pramro . Win32/Pramro is a family of trojans that can act as a SOCKS proxy on an infected computer. In this case, this proxy may...

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn't acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain -- for instance, hijacking a browser...

Cybercriminals are continuing to use a social engineering trick to lure users for their malware campaigns. This time, they targeted customers of Stratfor - a subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis. Attacks against Stratfor clients began...