Google Blogger hosts 2% of world’s malware

« 23 July 2008 | 13:10 | News | No Comments »

Google’s Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world’s malware hosted on the web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos.
The security firm claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers’ comments.
Beware next time [...]



Laugh at people if they say Vista is secure

« 20 May 2008 | 7:08 | News | No Comments »

According to an analysis from ThreatFire, 58,000 PCs running Vista were compromised by at least one piece of malware over the six months to May 2008, equivalent to 27 percent of all Vista machines probed.
In total, Vista suffered 121,380 instances of malware from its 190,000 user base, a rate of malware detection per system is [...]