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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/07/olpc.securityBy Pete WarrenThe GuardianFebruary 7 2008What if the plans to spread low-cost One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and Intel Classmate computers to the developing world work? What if in a few years there are hundreds of millions of them out there? Many might applaud. But among computer security experts, there's growing concern that those scheme could inadvertently lead to a huge increase in computer crime.Initiatives such as the OLPC and the Classmate ar read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 197 days ago
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Not your father's botnetResearchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 197 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/new_botnet_advances/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco13th February 2008Researchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.One of them, dubbed MayDay by security firm Damballa, uses new ways to send and receive instructions to infected machines. One communication method uses standard HTTP that is sent through an organization's web proxy. That allows the malw read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 196 days ago
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Forwarded from: *Hobbit* <hobbit (at) avian.org>Breathless articles like this just piss me off. It isn't about whose botnet is bigger or more secretive or what its C2 protocol is. It's really about the fact that they're permitted to exist at all, let alone successfully send huge volumes of spam.If the ISPs would actually grow a pair one of these days and curtail untrusted customer netblocks full of known-infested machines from sending ANY direct SMTP traffic to anywhere but the ISP's own authorized read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 149 days ago
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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200804011653.htmThe HinduApril 1, 2008New Delhi (PTI): With cyber crime emerging as a new area of challenge, Delhi Police on Tuesday launched an exercise to train its officers on ways to detect frauds and crack cases involving internet.A hundred officers of the force will be trained in the next few months on hardware, software and computer networking besides specialised training on cyber crime and computer forensics.The first batch of 50 officers, which include five read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 135 days ago
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http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39188638,00.htmBy Nick Heathsilicon.com15 April 2008Q&A: Scott O'Neal, computer intrusion head, FBI cyber divisionScott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers.The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments within the FBI. The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber s read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 121 days ago
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004379751_msftlaw29.htmlBy Benjamin J. RomanoSeattle Times technology reporterApril 29, 2008Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel B read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 101 days ago
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363631_fbiterror19.htmlBy PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND DANIEL LATHROPP-I REPORTERSThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer May 18, 2008Despite a powerful surge in bank robbery, mortgage fraud and white-collar crimes, the Bush administration's 2009 budget leaves an already handicapped FBI criminal program without the agents it needs to respond -- a shortcoming acknowledged by top FBI officials.It's the latest chapter in the administration's terrorism trade-off -- a continuing trend of cannib read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 87 days ago
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Home Office pwnedPhishing fraudsters hacked a Home Office crime reduction website to host an Italian phishing website on Monday.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 78 days ago
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Ministers of state and justice from the Group of Eight nations brought the issue of identification crime to an annual summit for the first time on Thursday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 74 days ago
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ahmedabad/Big_bucks_drew_kid_hacker_into_cyber_crime/rssarticleshow/3132064.cms16 Jun 2008, Parth Shastri, TNNAHMEDABAD: His face is cherubic and his mannerisms childish. But, when he talks to police officials, they find it hard to catch up with this whiz-kid. Ajay (16) is a perfect example of what parents should watch out for when they encourage their children to use computers. Being a teenager from a modest background, he wanted to achieve all the good things in read more »
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