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[UGNN] Phishing in April « UGNN: UGNN Alert continue reading :: ClickThrough .Social networking sites such as Facebook not only offer a whole new world of opportunities, but also open up dangers, according to executives at the Computerworld Security Forum in Malaysia yesterday.
[Computerworld Blogs - Applications] DNS blocklists and reputation services (part 1: background ...: Specifically, these lists contain known spammers' IP addresses and IP address ranges. When a spammer attempts to make a connection, the receiving mail server simply looks up the source IP address in the list and drops the connection if it matches.
[Janco Associates, Inc.] Blog and Personal Web Site Policy: Compliance with regulatory mandates and internal security policies is critical to the success of any enterprise. To protect the integrity of enterprise-owned information, prevent corporate scandals, and ensure customer privacy, new laws and regulations have emerged governing a variety of enterprises.
[alex.moskalyuk] DefCon weekend « alex.moskalyuk: All those images the banks display to you to prevent phishing are sourced from a single database with the primary key into that database displayed in the ALT field. Get an account with an online bank, go to online banking sign up, start choosing your images by moving through their gallery, and within a few minutes or hours, depending on your skills, you should have a complete database of images supposedly verifying that the site is not a phishing site.
[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Who Owns Your Computer?: It is ironic that the principles that make F/OSS so strong are largely uncapitalistic; it will be even more ironic if F/OSS eventually wins out over a system of proprietary computer development which implodes due to its own capitalistic greed.
[Webupon] Michael Jackson's Death and the World Wide Web: The First 48 Hours ...: Looking at the Jackson-twitter statistics, it is a surprise to see that 3 out of 4 people were under the age of 35 (who were either in primary school or not even born in the 80s), only 13.3% were between 36 and 50 (the people who lived the eighties) and only 6.2% are people who are older than Michael.
[The Red Tape Chronicles] Who's behind criminal bot networks? - The Red Tape Chronicles ...: They have infected perhaps 100 million computers with viruses, turning the PCs around the world into an army of willing criminal assistants known as “bots.” They are using those PCs to send out billions of spam e-mails and make millions of dollars by attacking Web sites and extorting their owners. They have even attacked the core computers that keep the Internet running smoothly.
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