November 30th, 2007 by admin
Spyware has rocketted to the top of the security worries list, beating out viruses and worms, says the Computer Technology Industry Association. That’s how some 55% of 1,070 businesses surveyed earlier this year saw it. “Spyware was rarely mentioned as a concern just a few years ago,” NetworkWorld has John Venator, president and CEO at CompTIA, saying. CompTIA […]
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November 29th, 2007 by admin
The MPAA wants to persuade American universities to use a special toolkit to help identify and stop the distribution of infringing traffic. But a researcher has discovered a massive security hole in the software. With it, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) can, “drill down and find out where that IP address is going,” says […]
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November 28th, 2007 by admin
The MPAA wants to persuade American universities to use a special toolkit to help identify and stop the distribution of infringing traffic. But a researcher has discovered a massive security hole in the software. With it, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) can, “drill down and find out where that IP address is going,” says […]
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November 24th, 2007 by admin
Telephone calls on standard phone network (PSTN) can be monitored and access to telephone company networks is tightly controlled, and in most countries even law enforcement authorities must be legally authorised to tap phones. But, “Voice over IP (VoIP) changes all this,” says VoIPCode. VoIP calls on IP networks, “are much more open than the PSTN,” meaning […]
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November 22nd, 2007 by admin
The vast majority of Internet users in China - close to 90% - want a law to protect personal information from “unauthorized dissemination,” says state news agency Xinhua. Moreover, they want it sooner rather than later. An on-line survey, jointly conducted by the People’s Daily and www.people.com.cn found 89& said they want personal protection laws to be […]
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November 20th, 2007 by admin
Texan Shawn Macleod thought his estranged wife, Kristy, was up to no good. So he decided to keep an eye on her by monitoring her emails and Net activities. And he did that with an application called SpyRecon which, boasts the company web page, allows users to, “to easily monitor a computer from any location” and, […]
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November 20th, 2007 by admin
Texan Shawn Macleod thought his estranged wife, Kristy, was up to no good. So he decided to keep an eye on her by monitoring her emails and Net activities. And he did that with an application called SpyRecon which, boasts the company web page, allows users to, “to easily monitor a computer from any location” and, […]
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November 16th, 2007 by admin
“Sometime in October a malicious program exploited a security flaw in the Wordpress software I use to host my weblog and injected some extra commands into one of the widgets I use to add features to the site,” writes British journalist and broadcaster Bill Thompson (andfinally.com) going on: They opened up a connection between the blog […]
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November 14th, 2007 by admin
Microsoft says it’ll shortly begin tests on a console meant to give users a single tool for managing all Forefront enterprise security products. Code named Sterling, it, “lets IT administrators manage security software for Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration products such as Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen products,” says vnunet. More […]
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November 10th, 2007 by admin
Hackers infected Alicia Keys’ MySpace site, redirecting them to a Chinese malware site. “When a visitor views the page, an exploit first attempts to install malware on the visitor’s computer if it is not properly patched,” says PC World. Says Security researcher Roger Thompson, on the Exploit Prevention Labs blog, “we keep finding MySpace pages that have […]
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