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During the International Crime Science conference that was held in London last week, Professor Walker revealed to the whole world that information contained in the CIA, FBI, US Department of Defense (DoD) databases had been compromised. This occurred earlier this year when a partner agency granted zone transfer acces... |
29 July 2008
10:54 GMT |
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We were recently reporting that the British Government, BPI, Motion Picture Association and six major ISPs have come to an agreement on how to combat illegal file sharing on the Internet. The thing is that most people will receive a letter informing them that they are involved in an illegal activity, which is not muc... |
29 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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According to the Korean police, an unidentified Chinese hacker managed to get hold of 9 million credit records that were sold on for a profit in Korea. The person responsible for stealing these records is known only as Chun, and it seems that he managed to flee to China before the Korean law enforcement agencies had ... |
29 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The problem with web browsers is that they remember the sites you recently visited and then have the quite annoying habit of leaking this information. Although this is not a recent discovery, it is a security issue (or better yet a privacy issue) that has been put to good use by Mike Nolet. He took inspiration from a... |
29 July 2008
05:24 GMT |
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It would seem that people who are up to no good and want to get your machine infected, take less time to do so than in the past. By using information available to the general public, they are able to prepare an attack in a shorter time limit. Generally speaking, it takes about 24 hours from the moment a vulnerability... |
29 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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As of today, the 28th of July, Sophos Email Security and Control will be able to better fight botnet propagated spam through the use of Sender Genotype, a next-generation filtering technology. Sender Genotype, unlike traditional filters that rely only on prior information regarding the email sender, identifies aberra... |
28 July 2008
09:10 GMT |
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As of last week, an agreement has been reached between the BPI, the Motion Picture Association, the UK Government and six major Internet service providers (BT, Virgin, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and BskyB), agreement that states all of them will work together to fight illegal file sharing. One of the first m... |
28 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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According to a recent study entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" conducted by professor Atul Prakash from the University of Michigan, a staggering 75% of all US bank sites do not provide complete security measures to their customers. These sites represent a security issue because they... |
28 July 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Users must know that by setting up an account with Skype in order to make free online calls, they are also exposing themselves to a security problem. The thing is that if you no longer want to use your account and decide to get rid of it, you will find out that deleting it is impossible. The only thing that you can d... |
25 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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If you are a security oriented PC user, then you take the necessary steps to stay safe, such as updating and patching your software regularly, and making sure that your private, confidential information does not fall into the wrong hands. So far it has been thought of encrypted IP calls, such as the ones made through... |
25 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has once again declared that the Child Online Protection Act goes against the US Constitution because it stifles the freedom of speech. It seems that the law is not defined as well as it should be and consequently the use of parental monitoring and filtering softw... |
25 July 2008
05:57 GMT |
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We all know that if we want to keep our browsing habits private, so that nobody can tell what sites we visit on a regular basis, we should clear the browser history. Also, if you want to keep your mails private, you should not give away your username and password. But what if you share a Tesco's online shopping ... |
22 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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According to Ohad Rosen, the web page that he administrates has recently come under constant hacker attack, presumably of Iranian origin. The cause of the attack is a message posted on the site, from Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, addr... |
22 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Shinjiru is an Internet service provider (ISP) from Malaysia that succumbed to pressure from the Government last month and consequently shut down the web pages of several BitTorrent trackers. Although most of these sites are now up and running as if nothing ever happened, TorrentFreak has discovered that Shinjiru is ... |
21 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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The online banking service for Citizens Bank is currently down, and the following message has been posted: 'We are sorry that Citizens Bank Online is not available at this time. Please be assured that we are taking every step to make online banking available as soon as possible. All current and future dated tran... |
21 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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As recent events such as Viacom suing Google's YouTube or Virgin Media sending out 800 warning letters have shown, the entertainment industry does not take copyright infringement very lightly. But how can a simple user figure out which material is copyrighted and which is in the public domain. The ALA (American ... |
21 July 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Just recently, we were reporting that the UK Government was asking for tighter SMEs data security and that phishing attacks on Irish SMEs were on the increase. According to Firebrand, a company that specializes in IT training services, one solution would be not to wait for an actual attack, and to simulate one yourse... |
14 July 2008
11:29 GMT |
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If you were to choose a metaphor to compare network security with, what would it be? Would you compare it to a chain that is as strong as its weakest link, or would you compare it to an impenetrable fortress? Well, here are the opinions of some of the best known security specialists in the business.For Whitehat Secur... |
14 July 2008
08:42 GMT |
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The name of this hacker is Abdul-Rahman Mahaini, he is 26 years old and he lives in Damascus, Syria. According to him, he has so far cracked software programs worth millions of dollars and he will continue to do so, no matter how difficult it is to crack a certain program. He says that he does not do this for the hac... |
14 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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