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Is the Convenience of RFID Worth the Privacy Trade Off? (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - RFID microchips, which can be embedded on most anything, already expedite the refueling process for some at the gas pump and allow commuters to pay tolls without even stopping. Earlier this year, the U.S. government began issuing RFID tagged passports. Increasingly, retailers like WalMart use the technology to better manage inventory. |
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You're never too young for identity theft (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Not even kids are safe from identity theft these days, experts say. In fact, they might be the best targets because most won't realize they were victims until years later when they apply for a credit card or try to get school loans or a driver's license, according to research by the Identity Theft Resource Center... |
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Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level, with an intensive and seemingly never ending Phish attack, the sole aim of which seems to be directing end users to a collection of Zango movies on a pornographic website. |
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Curse of the keystroke loggers who cost businesses £1bn a year (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - IT SOUNDS like some sort of cynical joke conjured up by a pack of IT hacks out for mischief. Or a piece of hi tech urban myth, one of many circulating in cyberspace. But a growing number of business victims are unwittingly falling foul of an insidious online practice known as laptop keystroke logging. Or keylogging for short. |
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Windows Vista crack is actually a trojan (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Malware makers are starting to take advantage of the number of users searching for cracks for the pirated copies of Vista floating around. A new download has started circulating around the crack boards called "Windows Vista All Versions Activation 21.11.06". |
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Social sites' insecurity increasingly worrisome (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Personal Web spaces on MySpace, videos on YouTube, and blogs, community sites hosting user created content have become increasingly popular. While the Web has always been about publishing digital information, the stunning popularity of hubs for content created by the audience has attracted more people to the world of quick and easy publishing, but the trend has some security experts worried. |
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Computers Spilling Your History (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - BILL CLINTON'S identity was hidden behind a false name when he went to NewYork Presbyterian Hospital two years ago for heart surgery, but that didn't stop computer hackers, including people working at the hospital, from trying to get a peek at the electronic records of his medical charts. |
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EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - EveryDNS, a company that offers free domain name management services, has been hit by a massive DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) that affected thousands of sites, including OpenDNS (a sibling startup that runs the PhishTank anti phishing initiative). |
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MySpace XSS QuickTime Worm (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Websense Security Labs has confirmed the existence of a worm spreading on the MySpace network. This worm is exploiting the Javascript support within Apple's embedded QuickTime player (1). This is used in conjunction with a MySpace vulnerability that was announced two weeks ago on the Full Disclosure mailing list (2). The vulnerabilities are being used to replace the legitimate links on the user's MySpace profile with links to a phishing site. |
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Nine ways to combat spam (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Anyone with an inbox nowadays knows that email spam is a real and serious problem. Luckily there are a number of techniques you can employ to contain this phenomenon and decrease the amount of junk mail you receive. |
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Spying on Spyware (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - A University of Michigan researcher has developed antispyware technology that doesn't try to stop spyware from entering your computer, it targets it after it's on the machine. |
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How Vista will take over your living room (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - When the smartest businesspeople on the planet, the Google guys, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates all say the future of their companies is in video, who are we to argue? Google is buying YouTube. Apple is set to launch the iTV, which will wirelessly connect your TV to your Mac. And Microsoft? It's about to make a video play that utterly dwarfs its rivals' moves: |
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Anti Virus Is Dead, D-E-A-D, Dead! (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Outgoing Gartner analyst Amrit Williams is leaving with a bang, boldly declaring that stand alone, signature based anti virus is dead. Williams also argues that the stand alone anti spyware market is kaput too, "If it even existed!" |
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Massive jump in phishing messages sent from South Korea and China (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Marshal's Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) Team has announced a threefold increase in phishing emails in the last week. The significant increase in phishing emails is primarily due to a massive jump in phishing messages being sent from South Korea and China, according to the TRACE team. |
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Sweatshops: The Ultimate Botnet? (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - It's a clever, if sinister, idea: Pay people 2 cents an hour to click on ads and spam blogs. Computers should make most of these jobs obsolete. It's not funny at all, even though I find myself chuckling at it. Every now and then you read stories about how people in the Third World are being paid to perform repetitive tasks to assist in fraudulent Internet schemes. |
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$139.98 - Essential NetCenter 160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM, External, RJ-45 / USB 2.0 from CompUSA (Dec 05 2006 01:58 GMT) - Connect the NetCenter external hard drive to your wired or wireless network to centralize and share pictures, video music, files. Print from any computer on the network. Installation of the NetCenter external hard drive is simple with the WD NetCenter wizard and EasyLink utility that sets up the WD NetCenter hard drive as a local drive on any Macintosh computer or PC. Includes EMC Retrospect Express backup and system recovery software -- Easy-to-use and powerful, this backup software includes features such as full system backup and restore, point-in-time restores, file-by-file backup, easy scheduling, encryption, and backup virus protection. Western Digital Essential NetCenter External Hard Drive Features: |
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