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Vista Internet Security 2012 is fake and very stubborn

Published on June 24, 2011 By Fredrick Berning

A friend contacted me about pop-ups on her computer. I had previously installed Logmein on her machine so I logged in to investigate. It didn’t take long to realize she was infected. Pop-ups like this were everywhere. This wasn’t the first time I had worked on her machine and I had my trusty Sysinternals toolkit saved locally. Unfortunately, [...]

Citi Hack Unsophisticated?

Published on June 13, 2011 By Fredrick Berning

According to the New York Times, a recent breach that exposed private data of “of more than 200,000 Citi customers” was a relatively simple attack. “In the Citi breach, the data thieves were able to penetrate the bank’s defenses by first logging on to the site reserved for its credit card customers. Once inside, they [...]