There's a lot of noise out there about "Nitol" and the takedown. What, exactly, does that mean to you?

Infoworld has an article basically saying that firewalls are helpless, blacklists ineffective, and you need Yet Another Box to do outbound deep packet inspection.

There's a blog over on the WSJ about how cyber-criminals are targeting Small and Medium businesses, and stealing money using the Zeus and Spyeye trojans, which we block.

The FlashBack Trojan, which affects a greater percentage of Mac users than the infamous Conficker worm did (and occasionally still does) for Windows users, connects to a limited number of IP addresses for its "Call Home". Although millions of URLs are used as droppers, it appears that the actual malware connects to only two IP addresses:

It's been a long road, with some detours along the way, but we have finally made it! ThreatSTOP release 1.0 is out.

Someone forwarded me an article from CSO Online about how the US Bureau of Printing and engraving was being used do deliver malware via an iFrame.