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.
By Tom Kelchner December 10, 2009
Yes, that’s right: 3.6 zettabytes! A report entitled “How Much Information” by the University of California in San Diego, released today, said the average person...
By Tom Kelchner December 09, 2009
SC Magazine has published a great feature story on the Conficker Working Group, an industry task force that has made major strides damaging the command...
By Tom Kelchner December 07, 2009
Bit.ly, the URL-shortening service that sees much use by the Twittering set, has announced that it will begin checking shortened links with input from Sophos,...
By Tom Kelchner December 07, 2009
This is a new one: bribeware. They’ll pay you a dollar to install their product. Nice idea, but unfortunately in this case it comes bundled...
By Tom Kelchner December 07, 2009
The amount of counterfeit software infected with malcode has increased significantly since 2006, Microsoft said. A 2006 study by marketing intelligence firm IDC found that...
By Tom Kelchner December 04, 2009
Researchers are monitoring a massive spam campaign from the Zbot/Zeus botnet purporting to be instructions for signing up for H1N1 vaccinations with the U.S. Centers...
By Tom Kelchner December 04, 2009
For years there has been a collective wisdom about creating strong passwords. Briefly: – don’t use a word found in the dictionary – don’t use...
By Tom Kelchner December 03, 2009
Cameroon, with a country domain of “.cm,” is the most dangerous place to go on the web, according to AV company McAfee. The McAfee researchers...
By Tom Kelchner December 02, 2009
FreeBSD has issued a patch that may or may not be the final fix for a vulnerability that allows someone with local access on a...
By Tom Kelchner December 02, 2009
Researchers with the Honeynet Project have created a graphic user interface (GUI) that plots a wide variety of data and give a visual representation that...
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