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- Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVs
- Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVsIt costs $800 more...and is probably worth itFluorescent backlights suck energy and burn out, while LED's sip power and last virtually forever. If one LED fails you probably wouldn't even notice the faintly dimmer onscreen spot. Figure a service call and bulbs plus power...
- Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TVs, Toshiba Corp., LED-backlit LCD HDTV, first LED-backlit LCD HDTV, light-emitting diode, LCD, TV
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Fixing Motorola's mess: kick that smartphone strategy into high gear
- Fixing Motorola's mess: kick that smartphone strategy into high gearNothing really new with Moto...I gotta wonder if Motorola's afraid of success. Or something. Back in November 2005, they released the Motorola A1200 Ming - a very cool touch screen phone in ASIA only. However, the cool factor of that phone...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Handhelds, phone, Motorola A1200, smart phone, Moto, smartphone strategy, Motorola Inc., high gear, Apple iPhone, strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-01
- "No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugs
- Vulnerability researchers have always extracted value out of their work, even before there was a monetary value placed on exploits. Security researchers at last week's CanSecWest conference dramatically announced their new philosophy that software vulnerabilities should no longer be given away. The movement cites the existence...
- Tags: Researcher, Vulnerability, Exploit, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Water woes: Chile, Tampa, California, global
- Down in Chile they are free market supporters, to such an extent that water rights are bought and sold like land or cattle. That has particularly acute effects in areas where there is little or no local rainfall. And local water supplies are dependent on good behavior by...
- Tags: Istanbul, Green Technology, Chile, Global Warming, Water, Tampa Bay Area, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- New Symbian-based mobile worm circulating in the wild
- F-Secure and Fortinet are investigating a newly discovered mobile malware identified as SymbOS/Yxes.A!worm or "Sexy View". The malware is affecting S60 3rd Edition series devices, and has a valid certificate signed by Symbian tricking the mobile device user into thinking it's a legitimate application. In terms of propagation, "Sexy View"...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Malware, Symbian Inc., Worm, Mobile Malware, SymbOS/Yxes.A!worm, Advertising & Promotion, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Cyber Criminality - Is Your Worst Nightmare Coming True?
- To summarize, cyber-crime has turned into a well-developed underground market of massive magnitudes. Attack methods are getting more sophisticated every day and organizations of all sizes are potential targets. So what can be done to protect the valuable assets? First of all, it is important to take an overall approach...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Outpost24, Attack Method, Security
- White papers 2009-01-22
- PlayStation Home virtual world hacked
- Hackers are using a combination of DNS redirection, software vulnerabilities and the open-source Apache Web server to exploit holes in Sony's new PlayStation Home virtual world, according to a Telegraph report. The hack is allowing developers to customize their PlayStation Home experience beyond...
- Tags: Virtual World, Sony Playstation, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers
- With the industry's eyes constantly monitoring the usual suspects' use of phony hosting providers, another market segment within the underground marketplace has been developing beneath the radar, aiming to build a malicious infrastructure (Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts; Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack) through...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Anti-spam, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Despite what blogs (and Apple) say, Macs will eventually have malware
- People seemed to get into a tizzy about Apple posting an announcement recommending Anti-Virus software for Macs. Even though it was retracted, I do think that Apple priming Mac users for the eventuality of widespread malware is a good idea. People who believe that the fundamental design of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Blog, Malware, Apple Inc., Malware Writer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Following the speculations on the resurrection of what's thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Attacker, Vulnerability, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Symantec puts value of underground transactions at $275M
- Those of you looking for statistics to justify your security budgets for next year, look no further: Symantec has released their view of the underground economy as it has evolved over the past year. The qualitative information in the report is amusing, but the quantitative information has...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- London Tube Maps 1.0 (Mobile)
- London Tube Maps helps you navigate the London Underground system. It provides you with unique, linear maps of every London Underground line, including the DRL and Overground, and displays each station along with the possible changes you can make at them. All for less than the price of one tube...
- Tags: Mobile, Brfos Studios, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-11-19
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...
- Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
- One would assume that popular sources for zero day vulnerabilities+Poc's such as Full-Disclosure, Bugtraq or Milw0rm are the primary sources for obtaining responsibly or irresponsibly released flaws. They'd be wrong. The black market for zero day vulnerabilities and the concept of over-the-counter OTC trade of zero day flaws, has been...
- Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Web Application, SQL Injection, Exploit, Day Vulnerability, E-shop, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- CardCops: Stolen credit card details getting cheaper
- The dynamics of the underground marketplace are pretty similar to that of the legitimate marketplace, with cybercriminals demanding and supplying, consolidating and start to work together, and coming up with new monetization approaches in order to continue enjoying the high profit margins of their goods and services. The once highly...
- Tags: Credit Card, Price, Service, Credit Card Detail, Cloned/Expired Card, U, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
- Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...
- Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareAsus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareThis is a deliberate attempt by Asus to get people to move away from Microsoft Windows and get the Asus eee's with linux installed. I hope Microsoft sues them for negligence. After that people will not want...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, ASUS, Eee Box PC, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- 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
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