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- Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?
- With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Campaign, Cybercriminal, Search, Marketing Research, Strategy, Security, Marketing, Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Google reCAPTCHA could raise bar in anti-bot, anti-spam battle
- Well what are other options?I'm not knocking your concern because it is a valid point. But does that mean we just leave everything open to bots and spammers? What could be done for the disabled? I thought reCAPTCHA had some ways of handling this.What about for the deaf-blind?Implement CAPTCHA or...
- Tags: anti-spam, reCAPTCHA, Amazon.com Inc., CAPTCHA, bot, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spam
- Too Bad ..."They try to distinguish humans from robots when entering form data."Too bad they can't discriminate humans from 3rd World wage slaves decoding them for the spammers :(RE: Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spamCool from a machine learning standpoint but does this freak you out since...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Google buys reCAPTCHA, Google Buys, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: HP's second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2? ...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- D-Link router's CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrieved
- D-Link router's CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrievedAny comment from Dlink yet?NTHow relevent is this?If you know what you are doing or just take the defaults, then the login to the router cannot happen from the internet side. This makes life a lot harder for crackers. As for WPA - USE...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, Routers & switches, Wireless and Mobility, WPA, router, D-Link Router, CAPTCHA, D-Link Systems
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- News to know: Google Search; iPod Touch; Pre launch date; Yahoo; Zune; AMD
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared Tom Foremski: How...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Apple iPod Touch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA's
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA'sThis is not a good ideaAnd is unfair to blind people, who contrary to popular assumptions do use the internet!The best 'captcha' is actually a captcha with a e-mail verification, like some forums I use are going to. They figure that if someone takes the time...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-19
- News to know: Microsoft's reversal, Obama's policies, MySpace, Apple netbook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft lets laid-off employees keep overpayments Sam Diaz: Microsoft backpedals on severance payback ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Citrix Systems Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, MySpace, HL7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- News to know: RIM, Facebook TOS, Apple-Adobe, Android
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Andrew Nusca: SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating Sam Diaz: Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- FriendFeed, Twitter address URL redirection risks; Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace lag behind
- When I compiled my crowdsourced 2009 predictions earlier this month, several people shared with me the same forethought: URL redirection leveraged by phishers could create a bottoming out of sorts for Twitter. The concern is that masked URLs could lead to stolen data or drive-by-malware, making it too late for...
- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed, Social Networking, Phishing, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters
- Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...
- Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Web 2.0 security? What a mash
- * Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- A year after YouTube ban, Pentagon launches TroopTube
- After blocking YouTube from oversease bases last year, the Defense Department has launched TroopTube, as an authorized alternative. It is, the site says: the new online video site designed to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart. The site is designed...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, Site, Pentagon, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malwareLarge networks are increasingly...being used to comprimise the Internet. These commercial networks are too large to be managed by hands-on real people and are being managed by technology. Things are only going to get worse. If these networks can't be properly managed they...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Google Trends keyword, Google Trends, cybercriminal, malware, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming serviceGo into a little more detail on MX and Ptr...records being defined. There will have to be a domain registered pointing to a start of authority. DNS servers query for the SOA. Then proceed to the SOA to get the DNS records you are referring...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, Spamming vendor launch, vendor launch, spamming service, e-mail server, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economyEconomic TerrorismThe purpose of the CAPTCHA is to ensure fair access to internet services in a manner that is consistent with the license agreements of those offering the services.Employing humans to purposely solve CAPTCHA should be considered economic terrorism because it has no other purpose than...
- Tags: CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Automated CAPTCHA bypass, ACB 1.5 (Windows)
- Automated CAPTCHA bypass, ACB, can be used to automatically translate an image into the underlying text. You do not even find analogues such scripts freely available on the Internet. Do not believe it? Try searching least in the same Google. You will not receive a turnkey solution - only theory...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Windows
- Software downloads 2008-08-13
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