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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.

[Put An End To War] Put An End To War - Google China Spy ~ Compromises Privacy ...: The growing importance of IW (Information Warfare) to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is also driving it to develop more comprehensive computer network exploitation (CNE) techniques to support strategic intelligence collection objectives and to lay the foundation for success in potential future conflicts,” the report states. “One of the chief strategies driving the process of informatization in the PLA is the coordinated use of CNO (computer network operations), electronic warfare (EW), and kinetic strikes designed to strike an enemy’s networked information systems, creating “blind spots” that various PLA forces could exploit at predetermined times or as the tactical situation warranted.”

[SCRIPT-ed] Penetrating the Zombie Collective: Spam as an International ...: Meanwhile, in the United States in late 2003, Congress passed legislation to create national uniformity in spam email legal regulation, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (the “CAN-SPAM Act”),70 which became effective as of January 1, 2004.71 In general, the CAN-SPAM Act prohibits fraudulent or deceptive sender, subject or content information, dictionary attacks72 and address harvesting.73 It also requires that the option to opt-out from future mailings be provided in spam email, that such requests are honored, and that sexually explicit materials are clearly labeled as such.74 Despite the Act’s creation of a private right of action for internet service providers (ISPs),75 the Act pre-empts most state spam statutes, in whole or at least in substantial part.76 As such, it removes private rights of action granted by some state anti-spam statutes which have effectively been used by ISP’s, nonISP business, and consumers to obtain recourse against spammers.77 The Act has received mixed reviews at best to date78 and leaves many loopholes which may catalyze a boom in certain types of spam.79 Some reports indicate that most spammers, as high as 95%, are ignoring the law or are only making very superficial modifications in connection with it to appear in compliance.80 This said, a recent $7million settlement reached by Microsoft Corp. with a renowned spammer demonstrates that some recourse is available under the act for determined litigants.81

[yorhatoy's blog] Alltop - Top SEO (Search Engine Optimization) News: After watching this for the last couple months, I've realized that my peskiness about the whole thing warranted just cause. Proving that Site Speed is directly correlated Pages Crawled I tend to keep an eye on Google Webmaster tools to .

[marXeting] Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber ...: PLA forces could exploit at predetermined times or as the tactical situation warranted. Attacks on vital targets such as an adversary's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems will be largely the responsibility of .

[Defense Tech] Integrated Cyber Operations | Defense Tech: Right now they aren't, and that puts internet infrastructure at risk from Russian organized crime, Chinese maybe-government espionage, and to a lesser extent, Islamic fundamentalist hackers. ...

[A Blog about Corporate Espionage and Security] Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost : Part I « A Blog about Corporate ...: Both corporations allege that patented methodologies were misappropriated by Chinese competitors and used in products marketed in China so that, in effect, Citroen and SigmaTel ended up competing against their own product designs. Furthermore, because the Chinese had little or no research costs associated with development, the products were made available at a price considerably lower than the company that owned the patent could possibly afford to offer.

[Best Travel Writing - Blog] Men's Travel””Gold Winner: The Worst Motorcycle in Laos: It was a 100cc Chinese make - a glorified scooter, actually - the type of four speed bike that is ubiquitous throughout Southeast Asia. The horn was burned out, along with the electric starter and both turning signals.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Fraud and Western Union: Yes, they manipulate the system wich can consist of "phishing" for information through the customer service line or a crooked employee at a location, wich may seem like a breach of security, but YOU are compromising the almost perfect security that Western Union has by divulging the fact that you have a money transfer out in cyberspace to someone who you dont want to receive your money!

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