[Gadgetwise] Can Privacy Sell Ping? - NYTimes.com: It may help that Apple doesn’t need to data mine personal information to make money, says Al Hilwa, an analyst at research firm IDC. Though Apple gets some revenue from advertising, its real interests are selling hardware and cultivating its app and media-download marketplaces.

[Adam] The New York times: apple Ping attention privacy protection « Adam: Stanford law and social center and Internet users privacy project director Ryan carol (Ryan Calo), said the speech, enterprise that jobs are response user requirements, no longer forced user participation in social networks, and also simplifies the privacy control. These comments, apples and other companies have begun to privacy as a competitive field.

[ReadWriteWeb] Ping: First Look at the iTunes Social Network: Ping places more focus on feature accounts than Twitter, inviting you to "set your inner groupie free by following your favorite artists on Ping." The service comes pre-loaded with accounts for some leading pop, rock and other music acts.

[Gadgetwise] Ping Fosters Music Discovery, Not Friend Discovery - NYTimes.com: For instance, Ping generates a top 10 list from the music purchases of your circle of friends. By learning what your friends and your celebrity heroes are listening to, you will most likely discover songs you’ll want to buy with one more click.

[elitemarketinginsurance] elitemarketinginsurance » Blog Archive » The iTunes Ping Social ...: To be more clear, Apple asks you to decide between two things: do you want to allow people to follow you, or do you want no one to be able to follow you? The latter is a nice option because you can still use Ping, you simply use it as a lurker.

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[Techwatch Tech News: Digital & Satellite TV, 3DTV, HDTV, IPTV, Cable, Computers, Games, Mobile Phones, Broadband, Internet, Telecoms, VoIP, USB and Wireless] Apple gets social with iTunes Ping: With a ready-made initial user base of 160 million iTunes users, it should be off to a flying start, but if it should somehow flop the social network has an equally ready-made headline: Ping Pongs.

[SJL Web Design Blog] Apple venture into Social Networking with 'Ping' | SJL Web Design Blog: Apple’s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs revealed the innovation at a press conference in San Francisco, claiming that Ping was “Facebook meets Twitter meets iTunes”, a clear statement of intent to rival the two present leviathans of social networking.

[Technology Headlines News] How Apple's Ping dings Twitter, Facebook - it: Ping picks at the good parts of Twitter and Facebook and builds a social network around something for which everyone has strong feelings. Might Ping teach Facebook something about privacy too?

[Technikfaultier's Blog] What the Ping? « Technikfaultier's Blog: It´s early in the morning here in Duesseldorf, Germany, but I am already awake, eager to test out iTunes 10 and it´s new feature Ping. The first good thing, iTunes 10 is finally ready for download:

[npust] Ping Pongs: What They're Saying About iTunes' Social Upgrade ...: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused... New York Times (blog) ( 9/1/2010 4:11:26 PM -08:00 ) .

[The Iphone Blog] Apple Announces iTuned 10, With The Social Network Ping, Available ...: There will be privacy settings, including letting anyone follow you, or approving each follower. You can listen to track demos, buy albums, and say which concerts you're going to.

[TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog] iTunes 10 Ping social music network gallery | TiPb: One of the easier ways to protect your privacy on social networks is to NOT use the same name that is associated with all of your bank accounts. Really, Apple…

[Green Web Design Project Blog] Apple Goes Social with 'Ping' Inside iTunes 10 | Green Web Design ...: Apple on Wednesday waded into the social-networking sphere with the introduction of Ping, a service with iTunes that chief executive Steve Jobs called “social music discovery.”

[TweetingMachine Blog» | Twitter tool TweetingMachine] Apple's Ping rival to Facebook and Twitter launches with 160m ...: Users can create a “circle of friends” to share their tastes, as happens with Facebook, or broadcast their opinions in Ping, as with Twitter. In the wake of Facebook's well publicised gaffes over user privacy, however, Apple's limited, all- or-nothing controls may cause controversy.

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[Security Generation] Mobile Web Identity Leakage in HTTP Headers | Security Generation: If a website is so inclined, they can log the headers associated with HTTP requests and then use this information to further track and/or advertise to you. If I were so inclined, I could wait for a mobile browser to leak the visitor’s telephone number and give them a call!

[Micro trend software] echoecho mobile ltd.: Location Privacy Concerns Drive Growth in ...: third parties, the Company also solves this problem for application developers, web developers and

[Kelly Web Sales] Just How Concerned with Privacy Are Facebook Users? | Kelly Web Sales: The firm studied the public’s reaction to Facebook’s open graph-related announcements that set off the majority of the Facebook privacy controversy back in April. The report specifically compares the general public’s (or at least the portion that uses Twitter) thoughts about Facebook privacy with the media sensationalism around the story.

[Boy Genius Report] Facebook adds privacy controls to mobile web site « Boy Genius Report: Yesterday, Facebook announced the addition of an advanced privacy settings customization page that will be available on your mobile handset. In a blog post, Facebook wrote:

[I Luv My Family] Cyber Privacy- Critical & complex | I Luv My Family: These are kind of boys or girl who will make friends on social networking sites then invite their bf/gf to web-cam chat and will ask them strip so that they can record it and distribute in file sharing mediums. Also recording devices are now portable and mobile so you never know where and who might be recording your private moments.And that makes privacy a much more critical issue than ever.My point here is if a person is living a certain kind of life, .

[ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News] China, India leads global surge in mobile Web usage - Internet - News: Doubts about inadequate privacy and poor security remain uppermost in the minds of consumers, Gary Matuszak, global chair of KPMG's information, communications and entertainment division, noted in the report, adding that these concerns could hold back further development of the online platform as a commercial tool.

[Royal Jelly Blog] Advertising | Royal Jelly Blog: they not only tend to work to the advantage of those with the most money, but they also by their very nature emphasize profit over all else”¦.Hence, today the debate is over whether advertising or food labelling, or campaign contributions are speech…if the rights to be protected by the First Amendment can only be effectively employed by a fraction of the citizenry, and their exercise of these rights gives them undue political power and undermines the ability of the balance of the citizenry to exercise the same rights and/or constitutional rights, then it is not necessarily legitimately protected by the First Amendment.” In addition, “those with the capacity to engage in free press are in a position to determine who can speak to the great mass of citizens and who cannot”.[33] Critics in turn argue, that advertising invades privacy which is a constitutional right.

[Committee to Protect Journalists] What should journalists know about BlackBerry fights? - Blog ...: Locating RIMservers in these countries (as many of them have demanded) would give the localauthorities the ability to straightforwardly intercept all but SSL/TLS (https)Web traffic, and would allow local law enforcement to obtain access to stored e-mail.With a better understanding of RIM's infrastructure (obtained either from RIMitself or through independent research), these nations and others could decodeBlackBerry traffic passing over their mobile networks even without local RIMservers.

[The eMarketer Blog] Mobile Meets Retail @ Shopkick's Location-based App - The ...: I think anything, including this app, that can lure shoppers into stores and drive purchases could be helpful to retailers provided that they tie in with smart, relevant offers. The app can be considered a form of multichannel retailing and could, if enough retail chains sign on and enough consumers download the app, become a decent form of in-store communication.

[TRUSTe Blog] TRUSTe Blog » Design considerations for your mobile application ...: The privacy policy and TOS are frequently overlooked by users because of their length or subject matter.  However, the information contained in these documents can reassure users who may have questions or concerns so they feel more confident interacting with your app or mobile web site.  The same best practice principle of progressively displaying features within the application or web can also be applied to these documents.  By reducing the time a user has to spend reading and understanding the information in these documents, they are able to quickly get back to interacting with your app or continue the process of submitting their information and moving on to the next step.  Note: not following these principles could mean that the user fails to complete the registration process out of fear, confusion or frustration.

[ReadWriteWeb] The Web is Undead: At the same time, platform-agnostic tools like blogs dwindle. So, let's bid a fond adieu to the woolly frontier of the wide-open Web and get ready for a charming, cultivated garden, I mean, an autocratic Prussian labor camp.

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[jamesdressel.com] Sad phishing attempt | jamesdressel.com: Sad phishing attempt. Submitted by james on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 20:24. I think someone is trying to phish me. Today I received the following as an email: Your e-mail account needs to be improved, with our new. F-Secure ® HTK4S ...

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[jamesdressel.com] Sad phishing attempt | jamesdressel.com: Sad phishing attempt. Submitted by james on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 20:24. I think someone is trying to phish me. Today I received the following as an email: Your e-mail account needs to be improved, with our new. F-Secure ® HTK4S ...

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[Legal,law Counsel] Legal,law Counsel Legal Advice And Help From Lawyers Incase Of ...: As per reports last year discovered 9.9 million Americans as identity theft victims with a total money loss of $50 billion, and around $5000 per person. If you find yourself as a victim of identity theft immediately minimize the smash up from personal funds, credit accounts, credit cards and accounts by meeting an attorney.

[Destiny Survival] Get Better Identity Theft Protection Now With IDEssentials ...: I wish I didn’t have to bring this up because it’s not specifically a preparedness issue. But As long as we live in an electronic and technology dominated world, identity theft is a problem that shouldn’t be overlooked.

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Ill. trucker rebuilding life after identity theft | The Daily ...: offer, Hood gave Rodgers copies of his commercial driver’s license and U.S. Department of Transportation medical card so Rodgers could deliver them to his insurance company. Hood said it’s routine for truckers to turn over such information to prospective employers.

[tcipost.com] Britain passports have been redesigned to help fight identity ...: The chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, Sarah Rapson, said: “Through its combination of physical and electronic security features, the UK passport remains one of the most secure and trusted documents in the world, meeting rigorous international standards.

[Identity Tiger] Identity Tiger Protect Identity Theft ID Fraud Credit Repair ...: Being ready before someone takes your identity is necessary. It might be difficult on your part, unless you want to go shopping one day and decide to use your credit card, only to know that the department store rejected your credit card and you discover that someone has been using your identity to buy something.

[Identity Theft Protection] Tech With Us » Choosing the Best Anti Virus - Identity Theft ...: Original post: Tech With Us » Choosing the Best Anti Virus Software. Tags: Anti Virus Software, anti-virus, average, Best Anti Virus Software, choose-the-right, choosing-the-best, done-though, need-not, .

[Advice Goddess Blog] Plug-In Identity Theft - Advice Goddess Blog: When CBS News purchased randomly selected copy machines from a used copier warehouse in New Jersey, the insurance company was a previous owner of one of the copiers and the photocopy machine’s harddrive was loaded with 300 pages of individual medical records. They included everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis.

[BSG Blog] BSG Blog » How Merchants Can Optimize Conversion and Checkout: We've found many shoppers simply don't like the hassle of having to remember account numbers, .John brings over 19 years of marketing expertise in leadership roles, including in the e-commerce, financial services, retail and travel industries.

[Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts] My ID Score - Assess Your Identity Theft Score With This Free Tool ...: [...] Assess Your Identity Theft Score With This Free Tool Thursday, August 5, 2010 9:33 pm TTC Shelbyville Leave a comment Go to comments Over at Bill Mullin’s blog, he gives a good article on Identity Theft Score..Unless you’re in the cyber security business, it’s unlikely that you’re aware of this rather startling statistic - a cyber crime goes down every ¼ of a second.  More [...]

[Identity Theft and Data Breach News | ID Experts Corporate Blog] Identity Theft and Data Breach News | ID Experts Corporate Blog ...: The “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010” was introduced by Senator Pryor (D-Arkansas) and Senator John Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) on August 5, 2010. The bill requires businesses and organizations that handle and store private consumer information, such as social security numbers, to use reasonable security policies and procedures” to protect such information and to “provide nationwide notice in the event of a security breach.”

[SiliconANGLE] SiliconANGLE ”” Blog ”” Limewire Acquitted of Infringement by FTC: Hopefully, Limewire can avoid future legal repremands from government branches, as it furthers the security of the users enjoying their software.  While this may not be completely possible, future issues shouldn’t be too major as to lead another federal judge or a union of hopping mad music publishers to demand a whooping $450 million payment for damages of privacy intrusion and copyright violation from Limewire and its founder Mark Gorton.

[Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog] Prosecutors expand use of ID theft laws : Sequence Inc. Fraud ...: “I think the law is giving prosecutors added leverage,” said Huppertz, of Huppertz & Dorow SC.  “The days where an 18-year-old kid takes dad’s credit card, goes out and charges something and we can make that go away are not happening much anymore.”

[MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice] Guess Who's Looking at Your Credit Report? | MintLife Blog ...: it’s based in part on your credit report and your utility credit score.  The good news, if you’ve got good credit it’s unlikely you’ll have to pay a deposit for utilities.  The best news, utility inquiries don’t count in your FICO credit scores (and neither do insurance inquiries).

[youssef mzaoui's blog] Avoid Identity Theft with HIPAA Compliant Secure Document ...: My Original Blog Post: http://www.selkblog.com/avoid-identity-theft-with-hipaa-compliant-secure-document-shredding-13/) by Marc Wathieu Avoid Identity Theft with HIPAA Compliant Secure Document Shredding Identity theft is a major risk ...

[Identity Tiger] Identity Tiger Protect Identity Theft ID Fraud Credit Repair ...: Cybercrime incidents are steadily increasing each year, and incidents of data theft and online fraud have become progressively common. Companies should therefore understand the risks involved in dealing with sensitive data, and manage them effectively in order to serve customers better and win their trust.

[Best Data Recovery Denver] Protect your privacy - Channel 9.mov | Best Data Recovery Denver: John Sileo Identity Theft Expert is interviewed by Channel 9 News in Denver. www.ThinkLikeASpy.com identity theft is increasing, and you need to know how to protect themselves, so as not to become one of the 11.1 million U.S. victims.

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[Change of Address] Change of Address: 5 Notorious Identity Theft Cases: Todd Davis, the CEO of LifeLock (a company mentioned above) embarked on a bold advertising campaign aimed at showing his confidence in the company’s services. So he plastered his social security number on billboards, on the radio, and of course all over the Internet.

[blog.identitytheftcouncil.org] Catch me if you can » blog.identitytheftcouncil.org: The thieves use data collection and web crawling software to harvest the Social Security numbers of kids from web sites across the world. Seems hard to imagine but Social Security numbers can still be easily found on many web sites, often as a result of either mistakes or just lax security by businesses and government agencies entrusted with those numbers.

[Site:] Site: » citi bank identity theft commercial: As a victim of identity theft, do I have to assist a collection agency in the prosecution to clear said debt?

[Yearly-Free-Credit-Report] Identity Theft, How Business Owners Can Protect Themselves ...: Even trained authorities can't tell the difference between a "real" and fake license"real" license and the fake one. The authorities can't distinguish between the "data base you" and the you your friends know"data base you" and the you who is looking at yourself in the mirror.

[Finance Article Directory] Essentials In A Good Credit Protection Firm | Finance Article ...: Credit and identity theft has gone rampant these days and you never know who's going to be the next victim. To prepare yourself from this unscrupulous crime, you should try credit protection to keep your peace of mind.

[God Is In The TV Zine] God Is In The TV | Remotely Interested: The Summer Drought ...: In a bid for originality, Identity eschews the usual convoluted murder and drugs plots in favour of, well, a convoluted identity theft (see what they did there?) and the consequences plot. Rather unoriginally though they’ve cast Keeley Hawes as a tough detective (wonder where that idea sprung from?), but it’s okay because The Wire’s Mayor Carcetti (Aiden Gillian) has turned up with a flock of seagulls hairdo to boost the show’s credibility amongst TV buffs.

[ethan stock] Start a New Labor Day Food Tradition with a Celebration of Natural ...: When Alex Tews unwittingly invented the pixel advertising system through his website milliondollarhomepage.com, he set the ball rolling for a radical shift in thinking about internet advertising. Many sites sprung up, making similar offers, each trying to distinguish itself with one small twist or the other, hoping that 2354 will make all the difference.

[News and Media Releases from AVG (AU/NZ)] AVG (AU/NZ) News | Social Networking for Business: Risk or ROI?: The shift in attitudes about personal information sharing among its user base caused Facebook to change its privacy rules in late 2009 with some of its 350 million worldwide users concerned that the company was out of step with identity theft and online security.

[StopTheft-Answers Blog] Services Offer Identity Theft Protection: Every year in New Hampshire, the identities of hundreds of people are stolen, and now, businesses have sprung up offering services to protect against identity theft.

[The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.] Morning Bell: The Left is in Full Retreat | The Foundry ...: The Left is _never_ in full retreat, as we have clearly learned repeatedly: e.g., the reputed fall of communism with the failure of the USSR brought into high relief how it is the advocates of that corrupt system slink there plotting way yet deeper into the bowels of Russian politics, renaming and restructuring in the dark nights that are their usual planning mechanism, and has finally sprung back to life in the false reformation of the Russian government led by a man who need not play second fiddle to anyone in Russia but would have the Russian people and officials at all levels play second fiddle to him, no excuses given or allowed.

[Hammer to Nail] Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » SALT OF THIS SEA - Complicated Roots: That the film fails to provide an Israeli counterpoint besides the banality of evil (and in this case, the ability for the formerly oppressed to take up the mantle of the oppressor) is unfortunate; it would have made up for the imposed humorlessness and prodded the audience to open dialogue as opposed to the feelings of retrenchment and/or shame that Hebrew audiences, in the Middle East and the West, are likely to experience after watching Jacir’s promising, if at times problematic, debut.

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[Digital Daily] Phishing Likely Behind Reports of iTunes Security Hole | John ...: It turns out that iTunes allows email addresses (used as the iTunes Account ID for non-MobileMe customers) and passwords to be changed without the email confirmation interlock required by the majority of today’s online services and discussion forums (ironically, even the Disqus service hosting these blog comments requires it!)

[Australian Macworld] Phishers continue to target iTunes users - Australian Macworld: “iTunes is always working to prevent fraud and enhance password security for all of our users,” Apple said in an emailed statement. “But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about cancelling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorised transactions.

[The Last Watchdog] Apple criticized for minimizing iTunes hijacking | The Last Watchdog: ITunes is always working to prevent fraud and enhance password security for all of our users. But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions.

[TechCrunch] Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes: It’s not anyones fault that the user chooses an unsafe password and links that account with the checking account for unlimited spending. As some old IT quote goes, “sure I use my cat’s name as a password, it’s just that my cat is called kj*3D3$9sf(@#lfad and I tend to change it’s name quite often…

[TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog] Scammers steal from PayPal accounts of iTunes users | TiPb: “But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes, we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and issuing a charge-back for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately.”

[winandmac.com] winandmac.com » No security breach in iTunes? accounts are hacked ...: iTunes is always working to prevent fraud and enhance password security for all of our users. But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions.

[Guru3D.com NEWS section feed] iTunes Hacked, PayPal Accounts Drained?: Update: Apple is in spin mode now and several follow-up reports blame the users for being the subject of a run-of-the-mill phishing scam. While that may be the case (and so far these incidents don’t seem to be very widespread), there are still some things which don’t add up.

[CallingAllGeeks] Hackers Steal Paypal Accounts of iTunes Users: In a recently discovered phishing scam, Apple iTunes users have been reported to have lost thousands of dollars through their PayPal accounts which are linked to their iTunes accounts. Although the scam is being termed as a security loophole, reports are suggesting that the iTunes authentication system has not been compromised, but rather it is a standard phishing scam, many of which have been around for years now.

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Thousands stolen through iTunes/Paypal scam: Neither Apple, PayPal or any legitimate company will send you an e-mail asking for personal account information. If you get an e-mail asking for your full name, Social Security Number, credit and/or debit card numbers, passwords, etc., it is always fraud.

[Apple SKY] Phishers continue to target iTunes users | Latest Apple News Blog ...: “iTunes is always working to prevent fraud and enhance password security for all of our users,” Apple said in an e-mailed statement. “But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions.

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[Apple SKY] Scammers steal from PayPal accounts through users of iTunes [u ...: “But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes, we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and issuing a charge-back for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately.”

[TechnicalCafe.com] iTunes PayPal Scam « TechnicalCafe.com: A simple check of the e-mail and web address may be able to stop somebody from becoming the victim of a phishing scam. However, some e-mail may look as though they are coming from and linking to a legitimate company, but may actually lead to a phishing website, so if you’re going to click on any links, you should double check what is in your browser’s address bar.

[Best Make Money] Best Make Money » Blog Archive » Apple can't stop ongoing iTunes ...: “But if your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately.”

[Faredigitale] Faredigitale » Blog Archive » iTunes hasn't been hacked, though ...: That goes of course for PayPal - though there's no obvious mechanism by which scammers could use your iTunes account to make payments to themselves to PayPal. (Is there?) Even so, the rule remains: be absolutely sure before you enter critical data such as your username and password onto any site.

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[Blog about Web Design] web design workshops 2009, | Blog about Web Design: With the help key cryptography, a Botmaster can act as an entity certification, which provides an effective way to rent the botnet to others in whole or in part, by a variable amount of time, and to protect against certain tenants purposes.To malicious, it is advisable to implement a black list containing all public keys.This invalidated the blacklist is stored on the computer of each bot, and Botmaster can add or remove public keys, using its private key to sign the order. Therefore, all certificates belonging to an attacker may be revoked.

[Steve Stewart Credigy] Botnets survey with encryption: It is usually asked to submit personal or confidential information, the legitimate receiver, the URL - the same is made. These emails can be generated and sent spam via botnet mechanism .

[CNET News.com] Bank Trojan botnet targets Facebook users | InSecurity Complex ...: Elinor Mills became fascinated with hacker culture when she was sent to Las Vegas to cover DefCon in 1995. Since then, script kiddies have given way to cyber criminals targeting bank passwords, and privacy risks are everywhere, from Google to Facebook and the iPhone.

[FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab] FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: Smashing the Mega-d/Ozdok botnet ...: Or get some seed money and Payoff and empower 1 or 2 of the largest with bribes, implants into their organization or coersion, to get them to roll or ratt out the leadership on say the bottom 8 botnets. Typically if they are going to be Russian Eastern Europa based, all the hackers primarily know each other in the under ground over there.

[scot hacker's foobar blog] Botnets on the Rampage ”” scot hacker's foobar blog: I see a future where everything is so locked down that all of the fun participatory stuff becomes impossibly difficult. I worry that someday email will only be feasible with whitelisting, that registration with identity verification will be required for all participatory web features, and that the concept of anonymity will ultimately become untenable.

[Latest articles from SC Magazine US] Busting bots: Defending against botnets - SC Magazine US: Network security provider Arbor Networks, in its annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, published in November, said botnets are the single greatest threat facing network operators because many resources are being spent to deflect prevalent and sophisticated botnet-driven DDoS attacks. The report also mentioned growing concern around IPv6 threats.

[Neowin.net] Neowin.net - Zombie botnet targets iPhone buyers: now as for Telling the ISP that a user on their network has a bot, ISP blocks said bot, user that had no idea they even had a bot gets real mad because they can't get email, moves to different ISP BOT still on their machine, New ISP blocks said user poor user has no idea he even has a bot. oh yeah problem not resolved as bot still exists on said users computer, now said user just can't access anything on the net.

[threatpost - The First Stop for Security News] Remember Aurora--and Other Botnets | threatpost: Finally, I think it’s valuable to point out that Damballa researchers have been in constant communication with customers that have been (and continue to be) targeted by the “Operation Aurora” criminal campaigns, and we’re providing our expertise to several of the victims that also fell prey to the newly redefined “Aurora Lite” attacks. Our experience with CnC discovery and how dynamic DNS is abused for CnC management, combined with the historical information necessary for building attack timelines, has proven very useful for tracking down the criminal operators behind the threat.

[BadwareBusters - Discussion Topics] Omg-omg-damn-funny.com - BadwareBusters: You might want to report through Windows Live Support again, and provide a link to this conversation and encourage them to find a way for Microsoft to flag the site for phishing so that a warning will appear for users of Internet Explorer.

[BBC NEWS | The Editors] BBC - The Editors: Click's botnet experiment: In my opinion, and that of other security professionals, the BBC has condoned illegal activities and should be investigated by the police not only in the UK but also in the countries where the botnet victims reside. The computer misuse act 1990 is quite clear about permission and there is no evidence to suggest that the BBC gained prior, written permission for access from the ~21,000 botnet victims.

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[TechCrunch] Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes: No, you can “hold iTunes” any way you want, but everyone that is getting caught by this is not smart enough to catch phising scams or viruses before they get infected / tricked so there is no reason they should have their payment information connected to accounts they are going to get phished.

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[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Huge Apple iTunes phishing scam: The receipts appear to be legitimate, and come from Apple, generated by the user’s iTunes account. The receipts show purchases for iTunes electronic gift certificates and charges that hit checking accounts, credit cards or PayPal depending on what the user has linked to his or her iTunes account.

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[Truedomain Blog] Phishing News of the Week - 8 January 2010: We’re also starting to see growing concern regarding ICANN’s pending release of top level domain names (TLDs) that not only can consist of any character string, but also characters other than Latin, namely Cyrillic, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese . We think the concern is well warranted and will be keeping close tabs on these as they begin to show up later this year.

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[Limits to Growth] Arizona: Mexican Cartels Dig In | border security | Limits to Growth: Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is raising money to privately outfit his officers with body armor and more powerful weapons because he and his deputies say they can’t compete with the cartels, especially when it comes to weapons.  He even has a website asking for donations. Babeu says the Obama Administration needs to help the state of Arizona, not sue it.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: now he hides behind his campaign consultant," said Quayle campaign spokeswoman Meghan Rose. "He needs to stop hiding, stop hurling hollow insults and start answering some tough questions about his use of a non-profit to make himself a wealthy man and his concealment of the scheme from the IRS."

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] 'Border Bill' only starts to solve security issues, experts say ...: The lack of technical expertise and field expertise has resulted in a priority of providing bingo nights, dance lessons and hanging plants to criminals, instead of addressing safe and responsible detention reforms for non-criminal individuals and families. Unlike any other agency in the nation, ICE officers will be prevented from searching detainees housed in ICE facilities allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into detention centers putting detainees, ICE officers and contract guards at risk.

[Frugal Café Blog Zone] Still No National Guard at Borders, Illegal Immigration Dangers ...: Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Today, these links leave me feeling disgusted | AmericanDad's Blog: In October 2007 the Jordanian Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought led efforts which resulted in the issuing, on October 13, 2007, of an open letter calling for interfaith dialogue to be based on love of God and neighbor. The document, "A Common Word Between Us and You," was issued by 138 Muslim leaders, clerics, and scholars and addressed to Christians worldwide.

[RadioActive Chief] RadioActive Chief » Blog Archive » Alternate Realities from the Border: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday said the administration has “enough” resources to secure the border now that President Obama signed into law a $600 million border security spending bill, and she said Congress must now act on a larger overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws.

[Bossip.com] Mexican Cartel Puts Million Dollar Bounty On Arizona Sheriff ...: THERE IS ALREADY A RACE WAR BREWING IN THE USA, NOW THE CARTEL AND OBAMA ARE GONNA FORCE AMERICANS TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES, BELIEVE ME, IF THE GOV. DOESNT TRY TO GAIN CONTROL SOON THERE IS NO HOPE THEY EVER WILL, WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IT WILL BE INTERESTING AT LEAST AND SURELY DEADLY.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Sen McCain has done NOTHING about the problem of ILLEGAL immigration, that is until he jumped on the ban wagon just recently, in fact he supported amnesty. You sure can tell its an election year, he waited until the majority of law abiding citizens agreed with 1070, then jumped off the fence.

[iOwnTheWorld.com] iOwnTheWorld.com » Blog Archive » Cartel places $1 million bounty ...: When Governor Jan Brewer and the state of Arizona elected to enforce federal immigration law since the federal government has failed to do so, Obama and his Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security denounced the Arizona statute, SB1070, without bothering to read it, then went to court to sue a sovereign state.

[Orlando Political Press] Orlando Political Press » Blog Archive » Mexican Drug Cartel ...: The situation in Arizona is a powder keg waiting to go off!  With the radical far left now bussing in professional protesters over the weekend to ramp up the protests, it may not take long.

[Indigenous People's Literature Weblog] Alan Grayson Crushes GOP On Unemployment Benefits « Indigenous ...: 03 Aug 2010 Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants killed five policemen in the second deadly attack in a week on security checkpoints, while a car bomb in a crowded market in the southern city of Kut left at least 20 people dead and dozens injured. An Iraq Interior Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity says the five were killed at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the affluent West Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour after gunmen with silencers opened fire on the checkpoint at dawn Tuesday.

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