After a malware dubbed as the “Obama worm” was found circulating within an Illinois elementary school’s network, security researchers traded opinions on the threat it brings about. Most reports mainly circulated on the issue of whether the file was malicious or not, considering that it has no malicious payload other than showing the following image…

Barack Obama’s campaign and eventual election to the United States presidency proved an excellent opportunity for cybercriminals in their malicious operations. News about the president-elect was a popular, and most of the time effective, social engineering technique used to trick unknowing Web users into downloading and installing malicious files in their PCs. Web threats that…