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- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation servicesThat would account for the Spanish spam......given that my last name contains the character string 'spain'! LOL
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
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- Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup
- To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Beware: Spam on Facebook and Twitter has reached epidemic
- another spammer paradise...tell me something I don't know.Duh reallyDuh really,you got payed to tell us were getting spammed?? Well actually you get spammed i don't subscribe to twitter or face book. I just simply email friends and family and guess what,i don't get spammed doing it that way,who woulda known!How...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Forms To Go 4.2.5 (Mac)
- With Forms To Go web designers can easily create scripts to process HTML forms in PHP, ASP and Perl for unlimited domains. Forms To Go's innovative design removes the development headaches usually associated with script creation and customization, providing an ideal solution for web designers with no programming knowledge to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Facebook beats the 'spam king'
- Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Gawker Media tricked into featuring malicious Suzuki ads
- A group of cybercriminals have successfully managed to trick Gawker's ad sales team into featuring malicious ads serving Adobe exploits (CVE-2008-2992; CVE-2009-0927) and scareware, by impersonating a legitimate ad agency inquiring about an upcoming Suzuki ad campaign. According to Gawker Media, the malware distributors were one of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs
- One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak
- The recently leaked accounting data of thousands of Hotmail users -- Gmail has also been affected -- obtained through what appears to be a badly executed phishing campaign, once again puts the spotlight on the how bad password management practices remain an inseparable part of the user-friendly ecosystem. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- SocialToo gives social networkers a false sense of security
- False SenseI think there is an innate false sense of security with social media after the initial exposure and use of a platform (FB, TWTR, LinkedIn etc.).Anything that adds an additional layer of "false sense" needs to be brought in the light, as you did... good post.If SocialToo "GETS IT"...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?
- Given their experience it has to be Microsoft.{NT}RE: When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?IMHO, Open Source applications are inherently more secure, with far more people pouring over the code.Closed source simply has the undiscovered flaws.Given that they design and make the OS...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Google exec calls for ISPs to get tough on botnets
- I can't agree with a requirement for active A/V.I don't need nor want useless A/V software on my systems.Its inappropriate for an ISP to scan MY machine..for paid access to the interent (when they want to claim they are a "dumb pipe"). If I am spewing out malware - sure,...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
- Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild
- Social Engineering?According the the Symantic press releasehttp://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14463/symantec-threat-bulletin-trojan-peskyspy-recording-skype-voip-conversation"The Trojan is detected by Symantec as Trojan.Peskyspy and can be downloaded to a computer by way of tricking the user with an E-mail scam or other social engineering tactic....The Trojan is targeting Windows API hooks, a technique used to alter the planned behavior...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones
- 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: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Twitter attack: Bots may have been hardest hit
- Tweetbot Spammers?What happened to RSS Feeds?I guess THIS is why I have my updates LOCKED!Wish I could do the same with my USPS mailbox!RE: Twitter attack: Bots may have been hardest hitJust as in watching WICKED, we now learn that there are "good bots" and "bad bots" and just because...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
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