WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Google Hangouts… the most popular instant messaging services aren’t necessarily the safest, with a low level of protection for personal information and a lack of security for the messages sent within them. Because of this, it’s possible for said information to fall into the hands of others who may have malicious […]

 Download PDF version Spam: features of the quarter Online dating The dating theme is typical for spam emails, but in the third quarter of 2015 we couldn’t help but notice the sheer variety appearing in these types of mailings. We came across some rather interesting attempts to deceive recipients and to bypass filters, as well […]

 Download PDF version Introduction The Brazilian criminal underground includes some of the world’s most active and creative perpetrators of cybercrime. Like their counterparts in China and Russia, their cyberattacks have a strong local flavor. To fully understand them you need spend time in the country and understand its language and culture. The Brazilian underground generates […]

For all we know about creating secure passwords, it’s still a pain that practically every service we use requires one – they’re easy to forget and, if we don’t change them often, a cybercriminal could possibly run amok with them. So, there are some who believe that traditional text passwords are still necessary, while others […]

Microsoft posted four critical bulletins today, along with another eight rated Important and lesser. Microsoft’s summary is at the Technet site. All in all, the software maker is patching a large number of vulnerabilities this month, with 37 CVE listed vulnerabilities being fixed with the four critical Bulletins alone. On the bright side, Microsoft claims that none […]

Virtualized environments are exceptionally flexible, manageable, fault-tolerant and cost-effective. However, a number of difficulties have to be overcome to protect them from external threats. If this is not done successfully, problems will inevitably arise. This is true of individual virtual machines, as well as the data center as a whole. Unfortunately, malware infections are a […]

A secure system – especially a system that is used to provide security – has to be trusted. But what underpins that trust? What proof do we have that the main components of our trusted system are implemented properly and won’t fail at a critical moment? We mentioned this point in our last article about […]