3.141592654… is about my limit when it comes to remembering Pi… and that seems to have worked for me. However… there is a new world record… Pi to 5 trillion places! (It’s a ‘2′ if you were wondering…)

However, the real news here is how much storage it took… 6TB. Not too …

A really cool bit of research from the University of Pennsylvania has looked at how smudges on your smart phone touch screen can be used to guess your password. So, while this is all research at present, as per usual it will only be a matter of time before it is exploited.

So… along …

Over nine in ten of all email messages in July were spam. Meanwhile, phishers find a new target with interactive customer support services, according to Symantec’s August State of Spam and Phishing report.

The report found spammers changed focus from the World Cup and shifted back to current events like the …

The recent Siemens WinCC SCADA targeted malware packages an zero day application vulnerability with a zero day OS vulnerability. The OS vulnerability in Windows creates a worm capability to get to the target and once on the target the application vulnerability allows compromise of the application’s data. The vulnerabilities are used in stages:
Stage [...]

There have been a couple of stories in the news recently about cached credentials. In essence, you enter your username and password and it enables you to, in this case, easily buy things from the online shop. Making it easier to use compromises the security and here meant that someone …

Today the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol public key gets added to the ‘root’ name servers. Some commentators such as Alex Pawlik quoted in ZD Net predict it will be a ‘Black Thursday’ for cyber attackers with malicious DNS re-directs becoming a thing of the past. I’m not …

In a recent announcement by SAP, they say that they will ‘push all useful data to mobile devices’. Good news… but not entirely unexpected, the smart-phone of today is just as powerful as the laptop of yesteryear and much easier to carry. However, security and usage policies are sorely lacking …

Vuvuzelas weren’t the only annoyance during this World Cup. Symantec’s July State of Spam and Phishing report reveals that the volume of messages with World Cup keywords in the subject line is more than nine times higher during this tournament compared to that in 2006. Not only this but there’s …

The news last week was that EMC was closing its Atmos cloud storage service with immediate effect – you can keep using it for developmental purposes but that’s about all.

Why did it close? Industry analysts said that it never took off, and recent surveys show that it is still a …

With the news that a couple of Android apps have been pulled as they misrepresented their purpose (they were used as research – duping users into downloading and installing them – to see if people would), it raises an(other) interesting question for IT departments around applications, mobile devices and keeping up with the user.

While …

Symantec’s security response team have found that Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the latest major world event to be hijacked by spammers. We’ve been monitoring several different variations of spam that uses World Expo keywords and email subjects to deliver their usual mix of fake promotions, products and services to …

So, you are using the cloud and all is going well. New upgrades to the software appear at regular intervals providing new functionality… all is going well. But what happens if something goes wrong? Twitter has just had such a problem, and it took down the service for many users. …

We have been talking about Information Security for a few years now, but with the changes in legislation earlier this year that means you can incur £500K fines, it’s time to look beyond the reactive and towards the proactive. Time to move from Information Security to Information Assurance.

So why Information …

Vulnerability disclosure is in the spotlight again. First it was Tavis Ormandy disclosing a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows before Microsoft had a fix available. Now a group called Goatse Security has disclosed a vulnerability in an AT&T website that affects Apple iPad 3G owners. The Wall Street Journal reports on the repercussions [...]

… What? A new browser-based threat has been created – just to show it can be done. However, rest assured, this will be used for real in the near future. It’s called Tabnapping… sort of like kidnapping, but with the tabs on your browser. The way it works is that …

The wild west forms the backdrop for our latest video on Windows 7. Shot from the hip we warn y’all how to avoid the bandits associated with migrating to this hotshot platform.

For an IT manager working to migrate to Windows 7, Symantec provides the silver bullet to help you ride …

In his blog, Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald asks the question, “Is .NET More Secure Than Java?”. Veracode provided data to help answer this question from our “State of Software Security Report” which contains the static analysis results from 1591 Java, .NET and C/C++ applications. .NET comes out slightly ahead.
…the vulnerability density (average flaws [...]

Every now and again a story crops up which causes you to do a double-take. Such an incident occurred this week when the FT (no less) reported that a scientist from the University of Reading had ‘infected’ himself’ with a computer virus. The study suggested that this had important …

Earlier this week at the highly prestigious Sabre Awards run by the Holmes Report (http://www.holmesreport.com/index.cfm), Symantec came away with an award for best blog of 2009 for www.viewfromthebunker.com.  Naturally we are all rather chuffed, so we’d like to take the opportunity to thank all the contributors to the site and …

No, this isn’t a comment on minimum wage… £6 ($8.94) is the cost of a botnet for an hour! The average cost is further reduced if you rent it for 24 hours. Just what can you do with a botnet, well they come with a number of services – most …