Tom Kelchner is Research Center Manager at Sunbelt Software. Tom is a communications professional with extensive background in computer security, anti-virus application testing and computer virus analysis. He is a former daily newspaper reporter and deputy press secretary to governor of Pennsylvania.
February 18, 2011
Wolfgang Kandeck, CEO of Qualys, said during a presentation at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco that 80 percent of browsers his company’s BrowserCheck...
February 08, 2011
Google is trying to figure out a tweak for its search algorithm that will stop junk web sites — “content farms” — from achieving high...
February 03, 2011
A number of Internet monitoring systems have detected that Internet traffic is again flowing in Egypt. The folks at Opera reported this morning that their Opera...
January 28, 2011
In what some observers are calling a first, the government of Egypt has shut down the country’s four Internet service providers, blacking out nearly all...
January 21, 2011
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is reporting that businesses have received Bredolab variants in email attachments masquerading as job applications. “Recent FBI analysis reveals that...
January 17, 2011
Mozilla’s Director of Platform Engineering Damon Sicore has posted to Usenet group mozilla.dev.planning saying that there are only 160 significant bugs to be fixed before...
January 12, 2011
High levels of Trojan and rogue malware circulating during December are continuing, with data revealing a surge in activity, boosted by themed activity around the...
January 06, 2011
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that a U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation of money mules (Operation eMule) has been led to two...
December 21, 2010
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a press release detailing the consumer protections in the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act just passed by Congress. “Congress...
December 16, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter to manufacturers and trade groups seeking their help in preventing distribution of tainted drugs in...
December 06, 2010
Oleg Nikolaenko, 23, of Moscow, Russia, was due to face arraignment in U.S. Federal Court in Milwaukee today in the wake of his Nov. 16...
December 03, 2010
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a preliminary staff report that lays out a framework for Internet privacy and suggests a “do not...
December 03, 2010
Google has altered its rating algorithm in an effort to keep the web sites of bad businesses from achieving high search rankings because of widespread...
November 26, 2010
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has posted some advice for those seeking love in all the wrong places (like on the Internet). In a sentence: “don’t...
November 12, 2010
“…an unprecedented wave of Java exploitation” – Holly Stewart, Microsoft. Bottom line: many Java exploits go after vulnerabilities that have been patched. Since Java runs on...
