I don’t ordinarilly send out these types of things. (Goes the mantra from your friends who always send you junk.) It is true, I try not to be reactionary and alarmist. I try not to rile people up with bug fixes they need to install NOW. Most bug fixes can wait. They tend to not be […]
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If you have ever wondered why you get so much spam, this article will take that question away.
“Our research has revealed a smoking gun that shows that Storm and other botnet spam generates commissionable orders, which are then fulfilled by the supply chains, generating revenue in excess of $150 million per year.”
That’s Million. With an […]
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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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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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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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This credit card prank pulled off by Zug.com had me laughing hysterically. It is funny mainly because it is so true. I could see myself getting away with trying this. No one really ever looks at your credit card signature. The lazy store clerk just looks at you with a look of disgust that they even have […]
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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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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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