Here's a great video showing how you can protect your email address from email harvesting bots and spammers.......
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Tor Lindqvist If you think a firewall is just a nusiance and your anti-virus software is enough, think again. There is more t worry about that you think. Check out this...
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© Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Lending Tree has informed its customers that they may have had their personal information compromised in a security breach. Several former employees are believed to...
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Here is a great video from Google's Tech Talk series. It's a discussion about building a safer web. With the emergence of Web 2.0. more and more people are relying on websites and web based...
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Here is an interesting and informative video from the University of Washington Although it's a few years old I think it's still provides some good information, and an interesting comparison of...
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There is a great blog post on ZDNet about routers quite possibly being the next target for hackers. A "Router Hacking Challenge" was recently made, with the idea being to share attacks...
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Bluetooth is a very common feature on mobile phones today. Unfortunately, some implementations have flaws, making it possible for an unauthorized device to connect to your phone. This video...
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Here is another great video from DeepSec2007. This one is a talk about the Economics of Information Security. From the summary: The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and...
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DDoS attacks are predicted to rise in 2008. These cyber attacks can disable websites, interrupt commerce and can take down entire commercial and government networks. Such high profile sites as Yahoo!...
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This video is a companion to the video series I recently posted called "Malware Analysis: Botnets". This video examines botnet code line by line and examines how bot herders configure them-a...
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Credit issuer GE Money has announced that a computer tape containing the personal data of 650,000 customers of major retailers such as JC Penney is missing. The tape also contained the Social Security...
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Oracle plans to release 27 patches on Thursday. This includes 8 database patches, 6 server patches, and 7 e-business suite patches. Here is a list of products affected: Oracle Database 11g, version...
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2007 was a banner year for cybercriminals. We saw them find more and more ways to get past spam filters and anti-virus software. PDF spam died out but MP3 spam rose. There was ransomware, increased...
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McAfee has announced the release of GroupShield 7 For Microsoft Exchange. GroupShield provides threat protection and security management solutions including anti-virus and content security. It scans...
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Botnets are big news these days, thanks to the Storm worm, this week's massive botnet attack, and other internet security issues. Users whose computers have been infected and joined to a botnet...
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Here's an interesting video from the Department of Justice about Computer Security. It's hosted by John Walsh, who you may of heard of via his show "America's Most Wanted"....
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Here is a great video I found. It's from LiveSecurity's Malware Analysis series. This video talks about rootkits, what they do, and how to protect your server from someone using one. This...
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Microsoft has released the first service pack for MS Antigen. MS Antigen offers server level antivirus, anti-spam, and content filtering, and is part of the Microsoft Forefront Security product...
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More and more enterprises are seeing the benefits of server virtualization, and Proofpoint has introduced a new "virtual appliance" that offers anti-spam, secure messaging, data privacy and...
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A new generation of malicious code is being used in increasingly frequent attacks on banking sites. The technique is called "Man in the Browser" and involves Pharming, which is the practice...
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Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of Kaspersky Security 6.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The software offers malware protection for mailboxes, public folders, and relayed emails on...
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