• There it is – the security Silver bullet

    I love that: There is finally software that is free of bugs and completely secure. Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the world-famous marketing campaign of a big software company which called itself "unbreakable". However, let's be fair: There is an article...
  • What is more important: Security or Privacy?

    This is basically a very interesting and pretty fundamental question for the society. After 9/11 the US changed the way they work significantly. Just as an example: Airlines had to give the US government information about passengers flying to the US that...
  • LiveMessenger Trojan in the Wild

    At the moment we are tracking a Trojan that is spreading through Messenger and AIM. It is called Win32/Pushbot.BD and you can find additional information on our Malware Protection Center . This just give me the opportunity to remind you that you definitely...
  • What can you do if you are a victim of e-crime?

    I think that there is a very good example of how a platform could be offered for victims of cyber crime. There are often questions around: What are my rights? What can I do if something bad happens? Who is here to help?... www.e-victims-org offers answers...
  • Hacker sent to jail

    You remember my post on The Economy of Cyber-Crime ? One of my claims was, that you need to work with Law Enforcement in order to increase the cost for the criminals – and here we have one of the outcomes: Norcross hacker sent to prison I quote: ...