Guy Bunker

 OK please forgive this little marketing-type plug.... but I think this is a great little tool…. As you no doubt know, Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec Global Intelligence Network. More than ... (more)

... There was an interesting article in the news yesterday from an insurance company about which professions have the worst road accident records. Topping the list... ahead of sales managers and students... are computer engineers!!! Being an engineer at heart (although my program... (more)

Wednesday 2nd September was the 'official' 40th anniversary of the Internet. To mark this important milestone we thought we'd take a look back at some of the most notorious threats ever seen online.  I Love You (2000) – Who wouldn’t open an e-mail with “I Love You” in the subject... (more)

... Or something more disturbing? So, Wikipedia is finally closing its doors to unrestricted editing, why? Well because it was being abused - and the reputation of the site was falling. When the Internet first came on the scene, the data was 'good', because the people who used it... (more)

... Credit card numbers that is. That's what one person has been charged with stealing from several different companies. If convicted he could end up with 25 years in prison and £300,000 fine - which is serious stuff. However, what about those who have had their credit cards stol... (more)

Even safe sites aren’t safe anymore, not if you don’t pay attention anyway. Symantec has recently spotted a phishing attack that used a legitimate SSL certificate to masquerade as a legitimate site. Fraudsters continue to use these kinds of techniques to perpetuate identity theft... (more)

A couple of the largest social network sites have recently suffered from denial of service attacks. In one case, the website was taken down for a couple of hours and in the other, there was a reduced service. OK, so this was social networking... who cares? Well, you should... esp... (more)

At the end of 2008, Symantec’s security researchers made several predictions regarding trends to watch for in 2009. So several months on, how are we doing with the predictions? Our experts said that some of the threats we’d see in 2009 would include a continued explosion of new m... (more)

Finding ways to substantially cut costs and complexity in an active, vibrant Data Centre is not easy. CIO's have spent years trimming here and there and, to many, further demand from the business to reduce CAPEX/OPEX can seem like asking the impossible. Nonetheless, significant a... (more)

A bit of good news it seems as it appears spammers have failed to capitalise on the worldwide release of the blockbuster movie “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on 15 July.  Symantec Security Response is detecting very few spam messages on this topic, a hopeful indication ... (more)

In a novel attempt to help everyone save money, SPRANQ has created 'eco font'. Which is a font with holes in... so it uses less ink! In using less ink (up to about 20%) it can save you money - pretty cool - and a great example of some lateral ... ... (more)

Ransom attacks on computers where cybercriminals lock victims out of their computers to extract a financial ransom are already a commonly used cybercrime technique.   Symantec Security Response has recently detected a new evolution of ransom threats with the discovery of Trojan.R... (more)

It is interesting how some companies define an acceptable disaster recovery strategy. I met with a bank in Saudi Arabia recently who explained to me that they need to implement a complete DR plan in the next 4 months (!) from scratch. When I asked them to describe what needed ...... (more)

There's a great article in this months E&T magazine from the IET on the need to manage your online presence after you have died. OK, so you won't be able to do it yourself, so you therefore need to figure out who will. In essence, the advice is to keep a record ... ... (more)

Symantec Security Response has identified yet another two web browser attacks, one on Microsoft Internet Explorer and the other on Firefox. Two weeks ago we reported the Microsoft Video Streaming Active X control vulnerability, which can be exploited mostly through the older but ... (more)

We have detected, yet another variant of the Koobface worm. This variant, detected as W32.Koobface.C, installs the misleading application detected as AntiVirus2008, and is propagating on Twitter. Now, this worm is not new, since it was discovered last year in August 2008, but it ... (more)

As the world mourns the loss of a musical hero, spammers are jumping on the bandwagon and using it as a tactic to distribute spam. Since his death on June 25, several spam and malware campaigns have taken shape. The spam subject headings used have been as creative and emotive ...... (more)

Symantec Security Response is continuing to monitor a cyber attack – a distributed denial of service (DDoS) – impacting multiple U.S. and South Korean government, financial and media Web sites. A portion of the attack is being carried out by a piece of malware Symantec has identi... (more)

So the new head of MI6 has been caught on a Social Networking site - just being himself. What's wrong with that you may well ask... well, apparently it's all to do with national security. Whether it is, or not, I leave to you but there is a lesson in ... ... (more)

With summer in full swing, travel plans are on the horizon for many of us!    As much as sunscreen and books are travel necessities, so are laptops and Smartphones – and to get online, people are increasingly taking advantage of wireless (Wi-Fi) networks - at airports, hotels, ev... (more)