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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Dell has announced they will be shipping Ubuntu 7.0.4 Feisty Fawn on their new Linux based PC’sThis could be a really good thing for the Linux, as well as the Open Source Communities. I’m very cautious, yet also somewhat excited about this news. I’m still not convinced that Linux is ready for the desktop arena. I’ve been […]
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Apple Macbook hacked at a security event. I had read about this contest, they were giving away a couple of MacBooks if you could hack one. They called it amusingly “PWN to Own.” PWN being a hacker word that means to own or to take control of something (anything really). Â
It took the security about 9 hours to write […]
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This article is very scary. For this to happen to a large company like TJX is bad. But what is really interesting is that this wasn’t an e-tailer. This was a large chain store that had their brick and mortor security breeched apparently over the Internet. It seems today no data is safe.Â
It did take them […]
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I have wondered what it is like to not have the Internet. I have been ‘online’ in one way or another since I was 7 years old. This is no small feat considering I was 7 in 1984. My mother even uses a computer hooked up to the Internet. My father on the other hand […]
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I’m a bit late with this. Registerfly.com, that I talked about in a previous post, has been given the boot by ICANN for non-compliance. It looks like they haven’t pulled the logos off the site yet. Not surprising, they probably can’t login to them to do it. They have until the 31st before ICANN pulls […]
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