The Weekly Geek

Here we go again, the Fake AV criminals have come up with a new attack, the SonicWALL research team has received reports of a mass SQL injection infecting millions of websites. It is likely that the back-end databases of these websites were compromised leading to this SQL injection. Malicious script codes were inserted and being served [...]

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Well, last week I finally started a FaceBook account, today I find out about this, though it is no big surprise and why I try very hard to be careful when using a computer period. Sonicwall Research team has discovered a new malicious Worm spreading in the wild. The Worm spreads via Facebook profiles and [...]

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Well, it’s that time again. What time you ask? The time for more mal-ware, crap-ware, spy-ware, trojans et al. In the last 3 weeks we have received more calls per day than we receive in a normal month from people who have pop-ups claiming they are infected or who actually clicked on the pop-up and [...]

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Howdy one and all and a great big welcome back to this weeks fun filled adventure of The Weekly Geek. Back in July I started on how to secure you computer (Basic Security Tips) and I have been working on Intermediate and Advanced tips ever since then, today I wanted to release a quick checklist. [...]

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Welcome back to all our readers. In this weeks exciting and fun-filled edition of The Weekly Geek we are going to continue on our quest to find out more about the malicious side of the internet and how to protect your computer. This week we are going to delve into “worms”. No, not night crawlers, [...]

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