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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2209293/strom-worm-making-millions-dayBy Clive AkassPersonal Computer World 11 Feb 2008The people behind the Storm worm are making millions of pounds a day by using it to generate revenue, according to IBMs principal web security strategist.Joshua Corman, of IBM Internet Security Systems, said that in the past it had been assumed that web security attacks were essential ego driven. But now attackers fell in three camps.I call them my three Ps, profit, polit read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 291 days ago
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http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080212/COMMENTARY/556045574/1012By William HawkinsThe Washington TimesFebruary 12, 2008On Jan. 29, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing on Chinese espionage.One of the witnesses was Larry Wortzel, chairman of the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Mr. Wortzel spent 25 of his 32 years in the U.S. Army working in military intelligence, then ran the Heritage Foundation's Asian S read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 117 days ago
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The microkernel concept that was once theoretically cool but impractical may now be a more reasonable real-world solution. With Microsoft working on Windows 7 and reportedly Midori, have hardware performance improvements finally made the microkernel practical? - The news is full of talk about Microsoft's Midori, a research project to make Windows more distributable and reliable. But Microsoft has many other research projects and directions for Windows in the works. One thing that has been clear for a wh read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 114 days ago
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The microkernel concept that was once theoretically cool but impractical may now be a more reasonable real-world solution. With Microsoft working on Windows 7 and reportedly Midori, have hardware performance improvements finally made the microkernel practical? - The news is full of talk about Microsoft's Midori, a research project to make Windows more distributable and reliable. But Microsoft has many other research projects and directions for Windows in the works. One thing that has been clear for a wh read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 77 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:20:43 -0500 (CDT)http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/091208-romanian-phishing-busts-were-years.htmlBy Robert McMillan IDG News Service09/12/2008The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation spent years laying the groundwork for an investigation that led to the arrest of dozens of people involved in illegal phishing scams operated from Romania and the U.S., a senior FBI official said Friday.Shawn Henry, who was appointed assistant director o read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 66 days ago
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Customers using unified threat management devices say the appliances represent a more streamlined way to provide multiple security functions and to track down security data, but don't necessarily meet all gateway security needs adequately. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 46 days ago
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Real scareware threat spawns questionable figuresFigures suggesting that fake anti-virus packages are allowing cybercrooks to make more than €10m a month are been described as little better than guesswork. Vendors across the industry are warning that scarewore packages - which attempt to trick would-be marks into handing over their hard-earned cash for packages that claim to resolve fictitious infections - are a growing problem.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 34 days ago
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In its annual wardriving survey, EMC's RSA security division shared some good news about wireless security in New York City, London and Paris. However, work still needs to be done when it comes to enterprise deployment of advanced encryption. According to RSA, less than half of the corporate wireless access points in London and New York are using advanced encryption--a figure that lags far behind Paris. - EMC's RSAsecurity division has some news about wireless security and it's not all thatbad.Far from read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 18 days ago
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Some security patches take time. Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it's taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This software is used by Windows to share files and print documents over a network. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 11 days ago
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EU agency launches campaignOnline gamers have become a soft target for cybercrime, with three in 10 users reporting the loss of items of virtual property through fraud.… read more »
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