The transmission (spreading) of signals from one place to another.
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- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Blizzard introducing two-factor authentication for WoW gamers
- Password stealing malware targeting popular MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft for instance, has become so prevalent, that video game developers are taking their authentication model a step further, by introducing two-factor authentication into play. And while marketable, is the new authentication layer actually useful in a real life situation?...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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- Tracking down the Storm Worm malware
- Tracking down the Storm Worm malwareHaving Knowledge Isn't Necessarily Communicating KnowledgeI respect Mr. Danchev's superior techincal knowledge of Web security. But it's very frustrating to read his run-on, wandering, multiple-car-wreck sentences. Absent a good editor at ZD, Mr. Danchev needs a course in business composition or journalism. Both disciplines teach...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- The Storm Worm would love to infect you
- The Storm Worm would love to infect youUm... It this page a stormworm vector??It certanly looks suspiciousRE: The Storm Worm would love to infect youWhat the heck is that article The Storm Worm would love to infect you talking about? I didn't understand any of it.Will ZDNet please please hire...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- White Light Energy Herbal Encyclopedia (zip)
- A completely illustrated herb encyclopedia that gives you medicinal uses, medicinal actions, preparation instructions, propagation and cultivation, recipes, formulas, and dosages for hundreds of herbs. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-04-03
- Google makes pitch for unlicensed white space spectrum
- Google didn't come away with any pricey spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's 700 Mhz auction, but that doesn't mean the search giant isn't cooking up big ideas. Google has pitched the FCC on plans to utilize the unlicensed "white space" spectrum that will be left behind by TV broadcasters....
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Skepticism and Mary Jo Foley
- Skepticism and Mary Jo FoleyThat does it[i]So, Mary Jo, feel free to be skeptical not that I had to tell you that. Skepticism is warranted, as you have rightly explained.[/i]Now you're going to have Don ranting about you as well as MJF.RE: Skepticism and Mary Jo FoleyGee, considering Microsoft's 20+...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Technorati fails, fixes, and fully discloses
- Technorati, a major blog indexer, recently shut down their spiders to fix severe data problems. From the blog post explaining the incident emphasis added: [A] small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this blog post. The spidering outages allowed...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for Mongolians
- The Mongolians have had a painful lesson on mesh networking according to the OLPC current events webpage. Broadcast storms in the overly dense mesh environment along with excessive mDNS broadcast traffic seem to have crippled the Gobi desert experiment. Here's an excerpt: We have painfully discovered the limitations of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Enterprise Web 2.0 predictions from Forrester
- Enterprise Web 2.0 predictions from ForresterRE: 40 percent of US pop that hate e-mailThe reason that Web 2.0 is such an enhancement to an enterprise involves the 40 percent of the US population that are described as empathetic communicators. This large minority is characterized by the general belief that email...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Is RF exposure from Wi-Fi routers hazardous to your health?
- Is RF exposure from Wi-Fi routers hazardous to your health?I don't know...Naturopaths and others think there is a link. The same debate could be said about high tention power lines too. I don't know if we will ever know the truth.All Frequencies are not equalThe whole issue is resonance... wine...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate
- Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debateThe funniest quote from the Burton report:ODF is primarily focused on content and presentation domains, and it is far less useful for scenarios requiring advanced structure and behavior capabilities."That just make me laugh!! Can they give one scenario or example??? What exactly are "advanced" structure...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Towards a High-Speed Router-Based Anomaly/Intrusion Detection System
- Traffic anomalies and attacks are commonplace in today's networks, and identifying them rapidly and accurately is critical for large networks. With the rapid growth of network bandwidth and fast emergence of new attacks/worms, existing network Intrusion Detection Systems IDS are insufficient for the following two reasons. First, they are mostly...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- IDGraphs: Intrusion Detection and Analysis Using Histographs
- Traffic anomalies and attacks are commonplace in today's networks and identifying them rapidly and accurately is critical for large network operators. For a statistical Intrusion Detection System IDS, it is crucial to detect at the flow-level for accurate detection and mitigation. However, existing IDS systems offer only limited support for...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Policy-Controlled Event Management for Distributed Intrusion Detection
- A powerful strategy in intrusion detection is the separation of surveillance mechanisms from a site's policy for processing observed events. The Bro intrusion detection system has been using the notion of policy-neutral events as the basic building blocks for the formulation of a site's security policy since its conception. A...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Design Best Practices for Latency Optimization
- The approach to minimize latency must be a holistic effort that takes into consideration the entire market data system from end-to-end and focuses on reducing latency throughout the design. This whitepaper addresses options for mitigating key sources of latency within financial data network implementations. Topics surveyed include propagation delay, processing...
- White papers 2007-12-20
- SANS Institute paints gloomy security picture
- The SANS Institute report on the state of security circa 2007 is enough to make you want to pull your ethernet cord out. Is anything out there secure? On Wednesday, the SANS Institute released its top 20 security risks update for 2007. It's pretty bleak across the board. There...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- TimeWarp (zip)
- The TimeWarp software sets your computer's clock from a time server using the Simple Network Time Protocol SNTP. Using your computer's Internet connection, timing messages from an SNTP time server can be obtained automatically to set your computer clock. TimeWarp operates in unicast mode where it sends a message to...
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- Congestion Propagation Among Routers in the Internet
- In recent years, various non-linear phenomena of the Internet have been discovered. For instance, it is reported that congestion of a router propagates to neighboring routers like a wave. Several researches on congestion propagation among routers have been performed. However, in these researches, cause of congestion propagation and condition that...
- White papers 2007-11-16
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