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- China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army. Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...
- Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Morro FUD ...
- Morro FUD ...You should've checked your emailPeople with subscriptions that were expiring in the last couple months were getting a free 6 month extension to OneCare.Norton AV 2009 isn't bad though. It's much faster than previous versions, but the Norton toolbar that it installs is garbage. I wouldn't...
- Tags: Norton 360, Morro FUD, Norton Co., OneCare, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundling
- If the StopBadware coalition has its way, software updaters from Sun Microsystems see screenshot above and Apple will carry the embarrassing "badware" label. According to a draft of revamped guidelines (.pdf) from the Google-backed computer security consortium, the badware label will expand to...
- Tags: Software, Guideline, Automatic Update, Consent, Apple Inc., Software Update, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Consumer Reports urges Mac users to dump Safari, cites lack of phishing protection
- The 2008 edition of Consumer Reports' "State of the Net" report, advises that a common security mistake is "thinking your Mac shields you from all risks", and that due to Safari's lack of built-in phishing protection Mac users are urged to switch to Firefox or Opera : "According to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Consumer Reports, Phishing Protection, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...
- Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
- Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information for criminal use. One increasingly popular approach to addressing this problem is warning...
- Tags: Malware, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?Zombies?"Over the years Apple users are brainwashed into zombies that will take anything Apple give them."Hmmmm...Really? Just because they're using the best alternative OS available? I beg to differ. IMHO, there are far more 'Windows'-zombies out there , and just now (with...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, SECURITY, stink, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?
- As part of my work testing exploits for the recent Safari "carpet-bombing" issue -- and the combo-threat to Windows users -- I installed Apple's flagship browser on a brand-new Windows XP machine. The installation came with Apple's automatic software updater, a very valuable tool to automate patch...
- Tags: Apple Inc., StopBadware.org Guideline, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...
- Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will
- Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There’s been a lot of blog hacking going...
- Tags: Google Inc., Site, Hosting Company, Hacker, StorageMojo, Blogging, Security, Internet, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Online thieves worse than 1960s Mafia
- Online thieves worse than 1960s MafiaCompletely different situationThe current situation is completely different. In the '60's the Mafia was basically a U.S. thing. Also, one reason why it had grown was J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI. Hoover was a fanatic about keeping the FBI "pristine",...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Federal government, Spam, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Mafia, Edgar Hoover
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Haute Secure 2.0
- A safe Web-surfing product, Haute Secure is out of beta and available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Founded in 2006 by former Microsoft security engineers, Haute Secure hopes to distinguish itself in a crowded field, including Grisoft Linkscanner and Finjan SecureBrowsing. Today new Web threats come not from sites...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Web browsers, hook, Haute Secure
- Product reviews 2008-03-10
- Greetings...you're infected
- Greetings...you're infectedFeature RequestI'd like to have a Unix/Linux port of this virus please!!! Don't leave us out!RE: Greetings...you're infected"socially engineered to look like electronic greeting cards" -- did a human being actually write that? What drivel!Simple FixScrub Web-2.0 and go back to plain old HTML 3.0. Disallow everything more...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, operating system, Greetings, vulnerability, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Wow, more Google XSS problems
- Wow, more Google XSS problemsRidiculousOk... This is getting ridiculous! 3 security failures have been found in less than a month. Who knows how many more are going to be uncovered, and how many have been used by "bad guys" without notice. If something else like this come out I will...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., XSS
- Discussion threads 2007-01-15
- Google protecting the public from Malware
- Google protecting the public from MalwareQuality of the database?Apparently the organization is new this year. Its announced goal is to be a clearinghouse for information. I didn't see any indication of which other sites are supplying site identifications, though that doesn't mean there are none.Google (Mr. Cerf) and...
- Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Google Inc., malware, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- StopBadware.org issues first reports
- StopBadware.org issues first reportsTime will tell,Sooner or later. I'm curious how the confrontation will end... Probably in the same way as with what's going on between Apple and the French Government..New Movieland / Media Pipe VariantMovieland and their mediapipe software just don't seem to be going away. Another new variant...
- Tags: Web site development, Tools & Techniques, Web technology, Spyware, adware & malware, Removal Instructions, Remove MoviePass, Movieland
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
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