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- Here's my problem with many rogue coders, hackers, Open Source cultists
- Here's my problem with many rogue coders, hackers, Open Source cultistsUnderstating the case[i]In the read world, it is more like give me Microsoft Office, Outlook Express, maybe iTunes, some games. Don’t give me hacks or alphabet soup utilities, remedies or solutions.[/i]No, in the real world it is more like, "let...
- Tags: Branding, Microsoft Office, elitism, rogue coder, open source, coder
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
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- 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
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Adobe actively developing a Flash Player iPhone
- Flash Magazine reports Adobe Systems' Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem confirmed that Adobe is developing a Flash Player for the iPhone at the Flash On The Beach FOTB conference in Brighton, UK. The only problem is that Apple controls which apps get approved for distribution in the App...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Apple Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Financial cesspits and compliance
- Governance risk and compliance are not the most popular of topics. Until there is a monumental screw up that is. Then everyone with a GRC solution emails to remind me they have the solution that could have avoided last week's mayhem in the financial markets,which will fix the ongoing situation...
- Tags: Trader, Financial, Compliance, Investment Banking, GRC, Government, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacks
- Adobe has announced plans to modify the next version of its Flash Player to use an "allow/deny" system to mitigate clipboard hijack attacks. The change will be fitted into the final version of Flash Player 10 to demand user interaction when a Shockwave (.swf) file attempts to...
- Tags: User Interaction, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Attack, Keyboards, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Countrywide warning: Ex-employee (may have) sold customer, mortgage data
- Countrywide Mortgage has started notifying customers that a rogue employee since dismissed may have sold sensitive personal information to an unidentified third party. The company mailed "urgent security notification" letters to customers this week, warning that the customer information involved included names, addresses, social security numbers, mortgage...
- Tags: FBI, Customer, Countrywide Mortgage, Mortgage Lead, Mortgages, Social Security, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures, Government, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?
- Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?Chrome / AdvertisingI'm sorry, but I have a hard time taking any article seriously that downplays the "expected" privacy concerns. I mean, Google DID have a clause in their license agreement when they released the browser that said they own EVERYTHING that is posted...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Please Dress Me: A tee shirt-ch engine
- When great minds collide on the Internet, anything is possible. Take the Vaynerchuk brothers for example. When they put their heart into something, it skyrockets. Gary uses the web to connect with each and every one of his thousands of...
- Tags: Social Media, Brother, Gary, Internet, Search, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Web Coder (exe)
- Web Coder is a code based html, asp and php editor with useful features. You can insert html tags easily from the main menu and view how your file looks like by just clicking preview button whenever you want. You have full power on your files while working with Web...
- Tags: Web, HTML, PHP, NonTube Software, Web Coder, Channel Management, Scripting Languages, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- NASA confirms infection, 'not the first time'
- NASA confirms infection, 'not the first time'Kind of makes me wonder.Why is Windows used at all? Infected through laptops in the upload link. Is WMP or Photoshop the official lock in of the space station? There is obviously a huge infrastructure in place to prevent infections. ...
- Tags: Linux, SECURITY, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, infection, space station, NASA, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome, the security tidbits
- The oft-rumored Google browser is real. It's called Google Chrome and it comes with a handful of security-related features like privacy mode and blacklist-based blocking of phishing and malware sites. [ PREVIOUSLY: Google hires browser hacking guru ] A beta version of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Dennis Fisher, Web Browsers, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- Â Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...
- Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
- Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...
- Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'Allowing your brand to be jackedI think the primary concern for an organization would be that of control. It's a win-win as long as things are going well, of course, but what happens when the unpaid maintainer decides to go completely rogue?...
- Tags: Branding, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Tags: Identity Thief, Asprox, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Financial Services, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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