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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 289 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: dell suit reveals lucrative tradedomain names comments Discuss  
A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 234 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn stolen laptop reveals security gap comments Discuss  
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152075-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comMarch 31, 2008Despite federal security policy established two years ago, the National Institutes of Health failed to encrypt a laptop that contained sensitive information and was stolen Feb. 23.The incident, made public last week, demonstrates that agencies have not moved fast enough to secure their data, security experts say.NIH.s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said it has reinforced its information security policies and enforcem read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 232 days ago
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39378374,00.htmBy Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk02 April 2008The US Air Force Cyber Command is just as interested in attack as defence, according to a senior generalThe US Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior US general.Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER), a US military uni read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 217 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: myspace hack reveals profile visitors comments Discuss  
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 205 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/nsa-releases-se.htmlBy Ryan Singel Threat LevelWired.comApril 29, 2008It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government's most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal used by the Army and Navy to transmit wartime communications that could defy German and Japanese cryptanalysis.Then he noticed something odd.Far across the lab, a freesta read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 113 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: exploit reveals darker automatic updates comments Discuss  
A recent study of Web browser installations showed that far too few are up to date with the latest security patches. And browsers aren't alone; as my dear old mum can attest, it can be hard to keep up with OS and application patches when all you want to do is use your computer for work. It should come as no surprise that many PCs are vulnerable to security exploits that could otherwise be prevented. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 106 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: kaminsky reveals gaping hole internet comments Discuss  
DNS patch averts doom scenarioBlack Hat After a four-week orgy of speculation, recrimination and warnings, Dan Kaminsky's domain-name system vulnerability has finally gone public. And boy, are we glad the net's overlords paid attention.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 101 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: researcher reveals critical java bugs nokia phones comments Discuss  
A pair of critical vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology for mobile devices could be used by hackers to surreptitiously make calls, record conversations, and access information on Nokia Series 40 cell phones, a Polish researcher said Monday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 50 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: dos attack reveals yet another crack nets core comments Discuss  
Self-trashing TCP exploitSecurity experts say they have discovered a flaw in a core internet protocol that can be exploited to disrupt just about any device with a broadband connection, a finding that could have profound consequences for millions of people who depend on websites, mail servers, and network infrastructure.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 50 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:43:57 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/fundamental_net_vuln/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register1st October 2008Security experts say they have discovered a flaw in a core internet protocol that can be exploited to disrupt just about any device with a broadband connection, a finding that could have profound consequences for millions of people who depend on websites, mail servers, and network infrastructure.The bug read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 49 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: security researcher reveals iphone design flaws comments Discuss  
Apple's iPhone has two design flaws that could pose potential security problems, according to a researcher. read more »
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