The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

Back on Election Day, our network security team received a small, but unexpected, early “holiday gift.” Since most people were off on a government holiday, network traffic was slow. Several members of ...

Since then I’ve been noticing that happening more and more. Bots replying to other bots trying to scam each other. I got quite the kick out of it. I’m waiting for the four-leaf clover of three or more ...

QWe had an exchange student with us for a while; my goodness, he was a whiz with that modem. Now, our computer seems to be dialing out all the time all on its own. AIt's my guess that your houseguest ...

A new report released by security company Symantec found that incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as “phishing attacks,” skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new ...