It's interesting to see ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - finally getting around to condemning the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist. This practice has been going on with a number of ISPs since the first Web browsers started appearing in the mid-to-late-1990s. The ISP reroutes weren't malicious, however, but merely tried to be helpful - with a lit... [More]

Our colleagues over at Symantec have uncovered an interesting - and potentially devastating - new Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server. C&C servers are a type of hacker server that allows a botnet's originator (herder) to control an infected botnet group remotely. This is usually carried through the use of Internet Relay Channels (IRCs) that link from infected PCs to the C&C server. The Trojan malware - which is being called Whitewell - ... [More]