This is something to take a look at, as we start to use cell phones, and email, for more important tasks. In this story, New Years Eve revelers sent out text messages in large numbers. These text messages, sent all at once, caused a logjam on the servers and some of the messages were delayed for […]
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Here is yet another reason I think we should have a national firewall. I think it is absolutely insane that we don’t have a firewall blocking other countries traffic. We would then be able to block any malicious traffic. If you look at the spam traffic from other countries, we could cut that out immediately.
I […]
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Google is being sued by Northeastern and a company called Jarg out of Massachusetts. I actually had heard a bit about Jarg previously. Kenneth Baclawski was one of my professors at Northeastern. In fact he was one of the best professors I had when I studied at Northeastern University. I remember him telling me about Jarg way […]
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This article discusses how an ‘ethical hacker’ Petko Petkov of GNUCitizen was able to break into gmail using the google cookie placed on your computer.
Cookies have always been contraversial. I think cookies are a good thing, but they really need to be used with caution, and your personal info needs to be protected.
Cross site scripting […]
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Michelle Madigan a Dateline NBC Associate Producer was outed at Defcon over the weekend. The funny part was they knew she was coming, and outed her before she even stepped foot on the plane. They knew when her plane was taking off and when she would arrive. She was violating the rules of the show […]
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In a way this is kind of funny. But the problem is that they are completely clueless in the anti-virus world. Scanning for viruses doesn’t work, because you can’t keep up with the ‘footprints.’ Also, by the time they get in, they are in your system it is too late. Once a piece of malicious […]
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Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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Google released a report that states that 10 percent of websites are dangerous.  Â
 First of all, I would like to say that Google is doing some great work. This is the second major news that I have seen based on reports from Google. These reports show that Google is using its position as the search leader […]
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This article claims that most of malware (spyware and such) comes from a very few Web Hosting providers. The top four being:
Number of infected sites:
iPowerWeb                    11,000
Layered Technologies 2500
ThePlanet.com              2000
Internap                          1400
The report puts China far behind with their top ranked malware hosting provider being at 800. This part of the study is somewhat surprising. I think most people in the industry would guess […]
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A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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