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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 285 days ago
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62037937,00.htmBy Liam TungZDNet AustraliaFebruary 19, 2008Businesses waste millions of dollars trying protecting their IT infrastructure but too many investment decisions are corrupted by poorly applied mathematics."I believe that industry, by and large, is wasting money on security today," said Gene Hodges, CEO of security firm, Websense.Hodges said the need to feel secure has lead to business making poor investment decisions when it comes to IT read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 251 days ago
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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200803/20080325/article_353399.htmBy Xu Fang ShanghaiDaily.com2008-3-25 FOUR hackers were jailed yesterday for snatching more than 100,000 yuan (US$14,179) from online bank accounts by stealing account codes using a computer virus.The Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Yu Li, Zhang Wei and Chen Feng to between six and a half years to eight years in prison for larceny and fined them from 40,000 yuan to 60,000 yuan.Zhao Gang, who helped them draw read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 245 days ago
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1126249158By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service31/03/2008 Spying programs for mobile phones are likely to grow in sophistication and stealth as the business around selling the tools grows, according to a mobile analyst at the Black Hat conference on Friday.Many of the spy programs on the market are powerful, but aren't very sophisticated code, said Jarno Niemela, a senior antivirus researchers for Finnish security vendor F-Secure, which makes security products for PCs a read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 217 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/hacker-in-murdo.htmlBy Kim Zetter Threat LevelWired.comApril 25, 2008An American hacker who is at the core of a piracy trial against a Rupert Murdoch subsidiary, testified this week that he created pirating software for the company but did not use it to sabotage the company's rivals.Earlier this week I laid out the case against NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm and a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The company is accused of reverse-engineering ac read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 195 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 58 days ago
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At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at least that's the case for fans of the teams that are winning). The U.S. financial system meltdown smacked world markets and set off a whole lot of worry, which tended to overshadow all the other news. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 30 days ago
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Microsoft's PDC was the source of the biggest news this week as the copany unveiled its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform. The company also let out some more details about the forthcoming Windows 7 OS and talked up its ambitions with Silverlight. Meanwhile, Google proposed settling lawsuits related to its book-scanning and indexing project, and word also seeped out through the Wall Street Journal that the company's search advertising deal with Yahoo could be scrapped because of regulatory issu 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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