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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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Dancho Danchev

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Dancho Danchev

Dancho Danchev
Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, and cybercrime incident response. He's been an active security blogger since 2007, and maintains a popular security blog sharing real-time threats intelligence data with the rest of the community on a daily basis. More details on Dancho Danchev's current and past professional affiliations, can be found in his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter

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  • The simple elegance of faith (a response to Michal Zalewski)

    By Ryan Naraine | May 21, 2010, 10:43am PDT

    Amrit Williams: What we must learn to accept is that security – as it pertains to both the development of software and its operational use – is ultimately more survivable than we like to believe.

  • Hotmail's new security features vs Gmail's old security features

    By Dancho Danchev | May 20, 2010, 4:27pm PDT

    Microsoft's revamped Hotmail, set to be rolled out in mid-summer according to the company's press release, introduces several new features. Let's review them, their applicability to today's cyber...

  • Security engineering: broken promises

    By Ryan Naraine | May 20, 2010, 11:03am PDT

    For several decades, we have in essence completely failed to come up with even the most rudimentary, usable frameworks for understanding and assessing the security of modern software.

  • Malware Watch: Rogue Facebook apps, fake Amazon orders, and bogus Adobe updates

    By Dancho Danchev | May 19, 2010, 1:09pm PDT

    This week's Malware Watch features four campaigns, spamvertised fake Amazon orders, followed by ZeuS crimeware serving email campaign using "Adobe Security Update" as a theme, Adult content themed...

  • Apple fixes old Java for Mac security holes

    By Ryan Naraine | May 19, 2010, 7:30am PDT

    The Java for Mac patch batch, available for Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, includes a fix for a vulnerability that's more than a year old.

  • Microsoft warns of serious, unpatched Windows 7 flaw

    By Ryan Naraine | May 18, 2010, 2:58pm PDT

    A serious security vulnerability in Microsoft's newest operating system could expose users to code execution and denial-of-service attacks.

  • Research: 1.3 million malicious ads viewed daily

    By Dancho Danchev | May 18, 2010, 2:45pm PDT

    New research released by Dasient indicates that based on their sample, 1.3 million malicious ads are viewed per day, with 59 percent of them representing drive-by downloads, followed by 41 percent...

  • Microsoft to share vulnerability details with governments

    By Ryan Naraine | May 18, 2010, 12:36pm PDT

    Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and...

  • Google Cloud Print: Pondering the security, privacy implications

    By Ryan Naraine | May 18, 2010, 10:56am PDT

    There are some important privacy and security implications that need to be fleshed out before end users rush to submit print jobs to Google's coming Cloud Print service.

  • Wardriving police: password protect your wireless, or face a fine

    By Dancho Danchev | May 14, 2010, 12:06pm PDT

    Internet users in Germany, whose wireless networks are left password unprotected, can be fined up to 100 euros, according to a recent ruling by Germany's top criminal court. Just how realistic is...

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