Open Source Firewall/Routers That Don’t Suck

Following our list of Linux Distros That Don’t Suck, More Linux Distros That Don’t Suck and Even More Distros That Don’t Suck, we are going to start to narrow our lists to a specific role. In this installment of our “Distros That Don’t Suck” we are featuring routers/firewalls. Sure you can use your default DLink [...]

Android Trojan: Geinimi

With more and more people using Android based phones it’s not a surprise that we are starting to see more and more viruses for these devices. The greater the market share the more appealing an OS is to malware and virus writers. The newest nasty on the block is called Geininmi. Geininimi latches onto Android [...]

Best Buy Admits To Selling Infected Picture Frames

If you bought a picture frame for yourself or a loved one at Best Buy over the holiday season you might have gotten more than you bargained for. Apparently they came with a factory installed virus that is a threat to Windows machines if connected via the included USB port. The frames that had the [...]

Are you secure: Secunia to the rescue

Secunia.com has been a great resource of vulnerability and virus information over the years for Black, Grey, and White hat hackers alike. Recently they released a BETA project that looks promising and could be the first step into a “package manager” for Windows. In there own words: A new addition to the Secunia Software Inspector [...]

Yoggie Pico Firewall

We all know how necessary it is to have some form of virus or spyware protection on our computers, we also know how great a hit they can be to processor performance when we are stuck using a slow laptop. The Yoggie Pico offloads those security requirements to a small USB dongle that serves as [...]

Learn to Hack

Every blog about security needs to post an article like this, as sort of a RTFM reference. Without further ado: First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched [...]

Skype Worm On The Loose

Skype users are being warned by it’s namesake that a new worm that spreads through the peer-to-peer chat feature. The attack begins when a user gets and IM with a link from someone in their contact list or from an unknown user. There are several variations of the chat message, which seem to be very [...]