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Remote search and the invisible elephant

Remote search and the invisible elephantThis is all about pr0nJust what evidence would you find if you scanned people's home PCs? Would you be able to cross-check every file against a checksum list of confidential/secret files? Could you detect packaged and ready to deploy malware? Nope and nope. There is...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), INTERNET, Corporate communications, Desktops, file name, internet crime, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

State AGs ignore phishing, spyware

Phishing, spyware and viruses cost consumers $7.1 billion in 2007, $5 billion in 2006. The Federal Trade Commission received 226,000 complaints of Internet-related fraud. But who cares? Not state attorney generals, apparently. As part of a survey of Internet-related crime, the Center for American Progress reports...

Tags: Fraud, Internet Crime, Internet, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Litigation, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Protect Your Family Against Today's Internet Threats

Internet crime is big business. A decade ago, writing harmful software was largely driven by individual hackers' desire for recognition. Today, profit is the clear motive. Organized groups of criminals create the tools and the distribution mechanisms for a wide variety of harmful software that can be used in criminal...

Tags: Software, Computer Associates International Inc., Internet Crime, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-09-01

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Selling customer information leads to prosecution

What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...

Tags: Asset management, INTERNET, Big Deal, asset, customer information

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Scammers trick users to ship stolen goods

A society of victims...If people stopped being a victim by wanting someoneto do everything for them.Use commonsense, if it is too good to be true thenit is.The entire public Internet is a sewer of sortsfull of spammers, criminals, and imposters.Only fools act naive in using insecure passwords,and posting private data...

Tags: Social networking, Google Inc., social networking site

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption

You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

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. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Government in action: 1.3M mobile plans; Mexico's Internet tax; England's crime map

Loosely linked.. i guess.. but i like the crime mapAs an active member of my HOA, we ask the local police all the time about our areas crime stats compared to surrounding areas.As i am sure everyone is aware, crime rises in a recession and even our local area has...

Tags: mobile, Internet, crime map, Internet Tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Government in action: 1.3M mobile plans; Mexico's Internet tax; England's crime map

Mobile plans for everyone with 1.3 million options; Mexico's new Internet tax will be 3 percent; and the U.K. has a new web site map showing were every crime has occurred for the last 3 years. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Mobile, Internet Tax, Government, Mexico, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.

"Hannah Montana Linux" may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it's an idea that has legs. My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10...

Tags: Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Netbook, Content Filtering, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-on

RE: Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-onIf it had to be blacklisted or not I really don't care now. Implementing code without end user permission is enough reason. We all know MS ways so I am glad Mozilla people used this way and hope they keep doing it in...

Tags: Web browsers, .NET, Linux Distro, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Corp., MS .NET Firefox add-on, MS .NET, vunerability, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Hijacking Windows System Restore for cybercrime profits

welp.... they are finally getting a taste of their own crap.I wonder what they are doing. We use steadystate on all of our machines. Reboot the machine and everything is restored.Maybe they should move from a PC based environment to a terminal server like system. Each reboot...

Tags: Terminal services, system restore, Hijacking Windows System Restore, cybercrime profit, SteadyState, operating system, terminal server, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data

Minor nitpick..but VA is a Commonwealth...NTNTI am not a fan of people who claim to be injured that are not.I am not saying she is lieing or they are being overly burdensome with proof requirements. I think if they just spent the dough to watch her at her house,...

Tags: Facebook, privacy

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

China secretly requires real names to post comments

How do you...secretly require something that every user has to go through? That makes no sense as anyone registering will know immediately.........They're behind the times.South Korea has been doing that for while now. It's all about security, so they say. Google has had problems with the Korean Govt. over...

Tags: Biotechnology, Dietrich T. Schmitz, DNA, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-05

If a flash drive infects a network, who's to blame?

I think the answer could be both are to blame...More more data i could give a clear cut answer such as 1. was there a policy in place that addressed flash drive useage. 2. Did IT limit flash drive useage with admin tools. So who's to blame i cannot say...

Tags: Flash memory, NETWORKING, Wtf, Network Access Control, USB flash drive, network

Discussion threads 2009-09-04