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- Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
- how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs
- One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Virtual Spam Prevention 2.1.2 (Windows)
- Stop spam, not mail. Experience a new breed of spam-fighting mail gateways, that consider outbreak behaviour rather than content. They also protects against phising, viruses, zombie attacks and outgoing distributions. VSP, the virtual machine spam prevention gateway runs on any machine since its virtual. Version 2.1.2 may include unspecified updates,...
- Software downloads 2009-06-26
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorware
- A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has found a bevy of exploitable vulnerabilities in Green Dam, censorship software that the Chinese government wants to bundle on every PC. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that China wanted to require PC makers to bundle...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs
- McAfee on Tuesday released its quarterly report on Internet security. The results? Cybercriminals have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses since January. Add it up and the U.S. contributes 18 percent of the IP addresses controlled by botnets. These zombie PCs appear to be lining...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Many still vulnerable to Conficker
- Many still vulnerable to ConfickerThis just proves...that regardless of what you do - stupid people can and will continue to exist. Why in the WORLD these folks have not patched (legit or NOT - MS provides this patch free to both) is beyond me. I guess stupid and clueless people...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA...again
- The latest version of Microsoft Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken, reports InfoWorld via security company Websense. According to a detailed analysis of the latest hack by Websense, spammers have come up with a new scheme to fool the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware' Google blames 'human error' for search...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Will EDoS be the next DDoS?
- Will EDoS be the next DDoS?All DDoS is 'EDoS' - this isn't a new concept.Most DDoS for the better part of the last decade has been directly economically motivated - i.e., DDoS protection rackets, in which the attackers DDoS a victim, then send a demand for payment to make the...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-25
- Spammers ââ¬" Best wishes for 2009!
- Satire While many bloggers and mainstream tech pundits are pulling together their legitimate “Best of 2008†column or “Trends for 2009†predictions, I thought I’d take a different approach this holiday season. I’d like to send best holiday wishes to those tireless workers (and their army of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-21
- Zombie PCs: 'Time to infection is less than five minutes'
- A fascinating -- and horrifying -- new article in The New York Times offers the lowdown on "zombie computers," the half-a-million-or-so machines that are converted, assembled into systems called "botnets" and forced to do a shadowy figure's bidding, namely in the form of automated programs that send the majority of...
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- 74ò0of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam
- 74ò0of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spamIt would be helpful ifthis post contained links to reports on previous quarters or a page that contained those links. Knowing that the U.S. went from 5% at an unspecified position on the list to ninth (at 4.3%) shows relative improvement but...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- 74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam
- In Q2 2008, 74% of all mail received was spam. In Q2 2008, Turkey became the country with most zombie computers (11% of the global total), followed by Brazil (8.4%) and Russia (7.4%). The USA, which in the Q1 2008 accounted for 5% of all zombies, is now in ninth...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service
- Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- A personal denial of service attack
- A personal denial of service attackNot that easyMost email spam comes from zombie bots - computers taken over through nefarious means. I'm sure that your D.O.S. email could be traced back to one of these bots - and THEN who would you fine/cut off? It was probably 10 years ago...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-Based Malware
- While the web provides information and services that enrich their lives in many ways, it has also become the primary vehicle for delivering malware. Once infected with web-based malware, an unsuspecting user's machine is converted into a productive member of the Internet underground. This paper explores the life cycle of...
- White papers 2008-04-05
- The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate
- The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debateIs Apple, Inc. arrogant?Just watch the "Mac vs. PC" ad.RE: The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debateFile this one under "Duh". All it takes is a few minutes reading "MS=Eeeeeviiiil" posts to convince you that, regardless of any technical merits to Apple products, Apple users are...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-09
- If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3F
- If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3FWell ...And im so going to anger the privacy advocates here...Maybe we can create a token system. I want to sign up for a service at say, ZDNet, WELL I proceed with my sign up...however, I also have to insert a token into my computer (that through a special ACTIVX,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Talking malware with Eugene Kaspersky
- MOSCOW -- Amidst growing chatter that the anti-virus/anti-spyware market is gasping for air, a veteran virus fighter says desktop security products must add new protection mechanisms to keep pace with aggressive online criminals. Eugene Kaspersky, founder/CEO of 10-year-old Kaspersky Lab, says next-generation anti-malware...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
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