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- IT security defenses misdirected
- In My Humble Experience...The biggest problem that I have, isn't viruses or phishing. Most people run at least basic AV protection on their machines. My problem is the users themselves.I run a pretty tight setup at the school where I work. Active directory with group policies, Symantec Endpoint Protection, a...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, IT security, information technology, network, security, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Brightfilter Parental Control 2009 2.1.0.10 (Windows)
- Protect your family from the dangers of the Internet: pornography, identity theft, illegal sites, malicious software, potential abuse, cyber bullying sites, illegal file sharing sites and much more. Brightfilter Parental Control provides easy to use web protection and control over what sort of Internet sites your computers can access keeping...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Brightfilter, Brightfilter Parental Control, Internet Control, Internet, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-01-28
- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?
- After anonymously bashing PayPal in Australia, it's not a huge surprise that Google was caught intentionally blocking AppEngine users from using PayPal too. Could it have been a innocent mistake? Sure, but the circumstance and timing are extremely suspicious. First, Google was outed after sending an...
- Tags: Google Inc., PayPal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Operational Accounting, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Finance, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- DNS-changing Trojan opens Mac OS X floodgates
- Guest Editorial by Gadi Evron "The Mac is going main-stream" is just one of the catch-phrases that we've seen in the past two weeks when reading about the Trojan horse infecting Apple Mac OS X users. This attack has created a lot of controversy...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Trojan Horse, Apple Inc., User, Attack, DNS-changing Trojan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry's need to act on spam. Now.
- Last night, in a notice urging vigilance and a series of best practices, salesforce.com sent an e-mail to its customers notifying them that a variety of recent phishing attacks -- both against salesforce.com employees as well as against salesforce.com customers -- were successful at compromising their targets. Although...
- Tags: Customer, Cyberthreats, David Berlind, E-mail, Online Communications, Phishing, Sales, Sales Force Management, Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, That\, top.js.OpenExtLink, Viruses And Worms
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript
- ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We’re a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...
- Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?
- After being in New York City last week and being busy almost the entire time, I spent a good part of the weekend catching up on e-mail. I have more inboxes than I care to admit and use more technologies than I should be using to see access them...
- Tags: Folder, Anti-spam, Gartner Inc., E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Trojan masquerades as IE 7 downloads
- Trojan masquerades as IE 7 downloadsRe: Trojan masquerades as IE 7 downloadsWasn't this always the case?[url=http://www.opera.com]http://www.opera.com[/url]I'd be scaredif I didn't get my software from known valid repositories.Translation : "The Endless Series Of Microsoft Exploits Continues Unabated"... just as we always knew it wouldExploits are exploitsno matter how you get it...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, phishing, Nothing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, IE 7 Download, trojan horse, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- News to know: Virtual PC 2007; IT leadership; Joost's big deal
- Notable headlines: Dion Hinchcliffe: Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets.Viacom to license content to Joost: WSJ.Jason OGrady: The DVD-R at right media that destroyed my SuperDrive photos.Donna Bogatin: John McCain announces McCain Space.Wind River acquires real-time Linux tech.Engadget: Its official: XM and Sirius plan to tie...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- A busy afternoon at DEMO 07
- The afternoon at DEMO 07 covers a number of topics with presenting companies organized around three themes:Making it all work – companies providing the architecture and foundation for web-based applications and services.SupportSoft – System TuneUp and Security Audit – System TuneUp helps computer users speed up the performance of...
- Tags: DEMO, Mobility, Productivity, Software, video, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Top Ten Threats for 2007
- Top Ten Threats for 2007RE:Top Ten Threats for 2007I would include...Privacy, Proxy caching, Ajax valnarabilities, Securing RSS feedsTop threat for 2K7... (dramatic pause...)[b]AT&T[/b]The recent FCC approval allowing AT&T to assimilate BellSouth brings the reality of Mutha Bell being handed control of the Internet one step closer, with the government being...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Smart phones, Advertising & Promotion, SECURITY, PC, malware, mobile, phone, smart phone
- Discussion threads 2006-12-27
- Answers to IT managers' questions about Vista
- Government Computer News held an online forum about Microsoft Vista featuring Patrick Svenburg, Microsoft Federals program manager for Windows Client Solutions. Some key exchanges between fed IT managers and Svenburg: Q: Is Vista shortly going to work with the Navy and other DoD Information Assurance program offices to...
- Tags: Government technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Svenburg
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Merchants on Google Checkout: undermines our customer relationships
- Merchants on Google Checkout: undermines our customer relationshipsBoth are badly over rated.As a merchant selling products on the web I studied the various on line purchasing systems and I found both Google and PayPal to be two very poor choices.First, they are too expensive compared to the competition.Second as...
- Tags: Checkout, eBay Inc., Google Inc., Google Checkout
- Discussion threads 2006-08-21
- Maybe Firefox doesn't have a security edge after all
- Kvetching about Microsoft security flaws is so 2002.That thought came to mind today when I read a misleading and disingenuous post by Firefox evangelist Asa Dotzler. Now, Asa just got back from a trip halfway around the world. So I’m going to assume that it was jet lag that caused...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, phishing
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was taking legal action in 104 cases against phishers, those clever criminals that put up fake banking and ecommerce sites and try to get you to reveal your username/password to them. While I applaud any effort to prosecute these cyberjerks I am...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- 'Active cookies' for better security?
- With 'pharming' technology, the cyber crooks put directly false information on domain name servers. Even if you manually type an URL, especially when using a Wi-Fi connection, you can't be sure that your request is not redirected to a wrong place. And there are no commercial tools to protect you...
- Tags: attack, pharming
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
- The missing glue in the fight against malware
- While at Interop in Las Vegas, I was treated to dinner by representatives of Tenebril, developers of the anti-spyware product SpyCatcher. At the table to convince me that the practically unknown security solution provider is a player to be reckoned with in the anti-spyware market were its newly installed...
- Tags: Tenebril, Zone Labs Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-09
- Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs neck-and-neck
- Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs neck-and-neckYea, tell Google they there is no benifit to running Linux!!!For small companies, the difference between the cost of running Windows servers vs Linux Servers might be rather small. But take a large company like Google where the develop once, and deploy on 10,000 servers....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-04-04
- Will phishing spoofees like eBay and banks get hip to RSS for the end run?
- In preparation for an audiocast interview that I'll be doing with the Anti-Phishing Working Group's chairman David Jevans, we discussed one of the oft-ignored downsides to phishing and how RSS could be the solution. Here's the gist. Because of how bad phishing has gotten, users won't open any e-mail that portends...
- Tags: RSS
- Blog posts 2005-01-25
- IE flaw threat hits the roof
- IE flaw threat hits the roofaye?Pornography dialers? So wheres the problem?disable ActiveX?Oh no, you have to disable ActiveX! But that breaks webpages, I can't do that! I'll switch to a browser that's safe(doesn't use ActiveX) instead!IE is an embarrassment3 cheers for Firefox!KAHCHING Just like money in the bank"Three...
- Tags: Web browsers, Firefox flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2005-01-07
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