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- House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites
- Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...
- Tags: Disk, Passphrase, USB, Laptop Computer, Attack, TrueCrypt, Hotel Room, Mobile Proximity Alarm, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Intel appeals EU $1.45b fine
- Unfortunatelywhen has a companies own shortcomings in marketing itself ever had weight in court. I think it should, but I wouldn't believe a court would take into account the plaintiff and/or "victim"s part in a situation as long as they are deemed a business.RE: Intel appeals EU $1.45b fineThis...
- Tags: Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Converged threats on the security landscape
- Business users can easily fall victim to malicious links in e-mail, instant messages, and rogue or compromised Web sites. In a single click of the mouse, a user can unwittingly access a Web page that installs malware and other unwanted software on the user's PC, leading to possible system damage,...
- Tags: MessageLabs Ltd., Identity Theft, Security
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Absolute Software downplays BIOS rootkit claims
- Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a statement downplaying the researchers' claims. According to the statement, LoJack is neither a rootkit, nor does it behave in...
- Tags: Absolute Software, Anti-theft, Malware, LoJack, Conficker, BIOS, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Rootkits, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- 419 scammers using Dilbert.com
- 419 scammers using Dilbert.comYou know, you'd think 419 schemes would be famous by nowWhy do people *still* fall for them? Quite aside from the cynicism factor this has been going on for years. Surely everybody's heard about it by now???Sometimes they're nearly believableI'm as suspicious about these spam letters as...
- Tags: INTERNET, Spam, Dilbert.com, scammer, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- Adobe Flash zero-day attack underway; Harden PDF Reader immediately
- Malicious hackers have found a new vulnerability in Adobe's ever-present Flash software and are using rigged PDF documents to launch exploits against Windows targets. The Adobe Flash Player flaw, which is currently unpatched, affects millions of Windows XP and Windows Vista users. Adobe has acknowledged a "potential...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Online Restaurant Booking Service Boosts Speed and Scalability With Web Technology
- Online restaurant booking service toptable was becoming the victim of its remarkable popularity. First launched in 2000, the Web site was struggling to deal with 15,000 bookings a day. In 2008, the company's management team decided to rebuild the Web site using Microsoft ASP.NET. toptable expects that the improved user...
- Tags: Web, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Toptable, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account
- Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountHacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountClassicRE: Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountOh, yeah, classic alright, classic BS.First of all, this guy has offered no unrefutable proof of his claims. Could all be BS.Second, even if...
- Tags: Hacking, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Steve Jobs, Amazon.com Inc., hacker, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, operating system, security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies
- Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...
- Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
- Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable pursuit of a wide variety of criminal objectives and has increased its capabilities for penetration into victim systems. Recognizing...
- Tags: Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2009-04-16
- Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM
- Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IMDo you think a Dean of Computer Science could write a dll?He'd try to say the word code then pass out cold.No problemAt least not my problem.It is still a Windows-specific problem.RE: Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IMwhen are people going to recognize...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Operating systems, Neeris, Conficker Worm, IM
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Web 2.0 Expo: Top ten Web hacking techniques
- A large portion of the Web 2.0 Expo attendees are focused on content. They want to create better, more engaging content for social media programs and Web engagement with their customers. But the Web and application developers behind this content need to know how to secure it. This is what...
- Tags: Technique, Web, Web 2.0, Hacking, Attacker, Attack, Clickjacking, Channel Management, Security, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust?
- Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust?It's probably inevitableAs Google continues to grow, it will increasingly step on competitors' toes, and more and more of them will start complaining to antitrust regulators. See below:http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/b2b-search-engine-accuses-google-of-anticompetitive-prices.arsI think it's good to be proactiveIt seems to me that is all she...
- Tags: Corporate law, Google Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Apple Patch Day: Gaping Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
- Apple Patch Day: Gaping Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesAnyone still believe that Apple doesn't have a patch day?48 vulnerabilities fixed in one release. Hmm, either the developers happen to have finished 48 patches [b]all on the same day[/b] or Apple bundles patches together and releases them [b]some time after the...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., patch management, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureWhy are you still allowed to blog for ZDNet?Seriously...a case study from 2002? Have you taken a look at the calendar in the past [b]seven[/b] years? It says [b]2009[/b].Paul Murphy, the story of a victimYou're a victim. We get it. The wwwwiiiinddoze people were always...
- Tags: Operating systems, Blogging, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows, Paul, Windows Culture, blog, Murph
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- Google Video search results poisoned to serve malware
- From the real-time syndication of hot Google Trends keywords, maintaining AdWords campaigns, to the plain simple blackhat search engine optimization tactics, cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to acquire traffic by enjoying the clean reputation of each and every Web 2.0 property. From LinkedIn, Bebo, Picasa and ImageShack, to...
- Tags: Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Will EDoS be the next DDoS?
- Will EDoS be the next DDoS?All DDoS is 'EDoS' - this isn't a new concept.Most DDoS for the better part of the last decade has been directly economically motivated - i.e., DDoS protection rackets, in which the attackers DDoS a victim, then send a demand for payment to make the...
- Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, EDoS
- Discussion threads 2009-01-25
- News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a 'tax' if users happily pay...
- Tags: Strategy, Security, Web, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Twitter, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Managed Hosting, Open Source, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
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