CyberCrime & Doing Time

We've seen several attempts in the past for criminals to try to get your passwords by the social engineering trick of a "Digital Ce...

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham our Computer Forensics students are working on a large number of spam and phishing related projec...

Congratulations to the Assistant US Attorney for Western Missouri, Matthew Wolesky, and the FBI investigators who have arrested and indicted...

After monitoring the Waledac "infection domains" for more than a month, our last "interesting" event was the change in L...

Like so many others who were playing the guessing game regarding President Obama's new CTO, I was wrong. I take comfort in failing alon...

We've known that Waledac spreads itself via Social Engineering - convincing users that they WANT to download a program. Recently we...

Those who research Pharmaceutical spam have learned that there are basically two major classes of drugs. Those which the Feds care about s...

At UAB Computer Forensics, we have been tracking the spam bot, Waledac, since March 19th, by checking every so often (like 4 times a minute)...

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for the second half of 2008 has been released (the 184 PDF version, available from http://microso...

For many members of the non-security research community, the New York Times story this week was big news: "Vast Spy System Loots Comput...

One of my favorite twitter friends, InfraGard member and PCI expert Michael Dahn (@sfoak), sent his tweets a link today to the Affidavit of ...

My daughter and her teenage friend were sitting on the couch watching TV today when they began getting text messages on their phone. Here...

We've seen several cases in the past where Law Enforcement action is triggered by one criminal actively and publicly spreading informati...

In the February 25th edition of this Blog, Watch Out For Coupon Offers , we described how the Waledac malware family was being distributed i...