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uControl: Home Security 2.0
Date: 03/14/09
Keywords: security
Keeping your house secure is not always fun to think about. You have an alarm system, but it's usually dated, and not so easy to use. uControl makes the experience different. Imagine a touch screen monitor that lets you control the security of your home. Not only...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=354
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Is privacy dead, or just very confused?
Date: 03/14/09
Keywords: microsoft
Panel: Siva Vaidhyanathan UVA, Alice Marwick NYU, Judith Donath MIT, Danah Boyd Microsoft Personal information is a form of currency. Privacy is not a substance. It's not something you can trade, or give up. People are willing to trade a little bit of privacy for a better...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=338
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Botnets and illicit file swapping: the original "cloud computing"
Date: 03/13/09
Keywords: no keywords
The primary motives that are being cited for cloud computing, such as lower operational cost, scalability to elastic demand, and high availability, have all been addressed before in the underground. Have you ever heard of this thing called "Cloud Computing"? I have, and apparently it is...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2883
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My Astaro's rock
Date: 03/12/09
Keywords: security
We recently installed 3 Astaro 220 Security Gateways in locations that we upgraded to cable Internet connections. Our services integrator Integrity by CELT was able to bundle them via a lease with our Internet costs and gave me a couple of training sessions to manage them. While they...
Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2246
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BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
Date: 03/12/09
Keywords: no keywords
Update: BBC Click's tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K's Computer Misuse Act. There's a slight chance that you may have unknowingly participated in a recent experiment conducted by the BBC. In a bit of an...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2868
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DDoS applications becoming democratized, tools of protest
Date: 03/11/09
Keywords: no keywords
In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a political statement. During his presentation, Nazario covered the major political DDoS events from the...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2859
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Security considerations for brands using Twitter
Date: 03/11/09
Keywords: security
There's a lot of chatter about Twitter security. But what responsibility lies on brands to make better decisions to protect their users. A lot. by Jennifer Leggio
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=664
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CIO Jury: Businesses need netbooks
Date: 03/11/09
Keywords: security
A jury of UK IT chiefs were almost split over whether netbooks were ready for the enterprise as the pro votes liked the price while the cons questioned security. Netbooks have received a qualified thumbs up by IT leaders in the latest CIO Jury. When...
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-277700.html
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Microsoft given month reprieve in EU browser-bundling case
Date: 03/11/09
Keywords: browser, microsoft
Microsoft has petitioned for and been granted an extra month to reply to browser-bundling antitrust charges levied against it in Europe. by Mary Jo Foley
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2280
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Adobe PDF patch released, but only for some
Date: 03/10/09
Keywords: software, security, microsoft
After weeks of swinging and missing on proper response to a gaping security hole in its ever-present PDF Reader software, Adobe has finally shipped a patch but only for some affected users. On the same day Microsoft issued its scheduled batch of patches, Adobe dropped a security...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2856
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Microsoft fixes critical Windows kernel, WINS flaws
Date: 03/10/09
Keywords: security, microsoft
Microsoft today shipped three security bulletins with fixes for at least 8 documented vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows OS users. The most serious of this month's patch batch is rated "critical" and could allow full remote execution attacks if a Windows user is simply lured into viewing...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2853
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New study details the dynamics of successful phishing
Date: 03/10/09
Keywords: security
Can you teach an old employee new phishing protection tricks? In a recently presented study by the Intrepidus Group, the company behind the PhishMe.com spear phishing awareness service allowing companies to ethically attempt to phish their employees on their way to build security awareness, presents some interesting...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2846
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So I followed all the prompts in AV 360
Date: 03/10/09
Keywords: software
AV360 is a fun little piece of malware that looks to the average end user like an anti-malware program. It's not exactly new, but it certainly seems to be making the rounds. Most commercial anti-malware software doesn't catch it, although we haven't had any problems at sites with...
Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2238
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International Kaspersky sites susceptible to SQL injection attacks
Date: 03/10/09
Keywords: asp, sql, security, web
According to a security group going under the name of TeamElite, the international sites of Kaspersky Iran (kasperskylabs.ir), Taiwan (web.kaspersky.com.tw) and South Korea (kasperskymall.co.kr) are susceptible to SQL injection attacks, allowing the injection of malicious iFrames and potentially assisting malicious attackers into obtaining sensitive data from the web sites in...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2842
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Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSA
Date: 03/09/09
Keywords: security
Rod Beckworth quits after a year on the job, saying he won't be subjugated to National Security Agency. But does Obama support NSA dominance here? by Richard Koman
Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4448
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MySpace using Cloudmark anti-spam for in-network abuse
Date: 03/09/09
Keywords: technology, security, spam
Last week Twitter user Fausto Cepeda asked Ryan if we could go beyond discussing straight security news and talk about product and technology trends on the blog. It was perfect timing. Cloudmark (disclosure: yes, this is my employer) has announced that they have been providing anti-spam...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2834
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TouchDown provides push email for the T-Mobile G1 Android device
Date: 03/09/09
Keywords: google
I've written about TouchDown for the Google Android a couple of times here and here and as I have said in those posts it gets better and better on a regular basis. I have been using beta versions and the latest available beta supports PUSH email, ability to send attachments,...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=856
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U.S.'s cybersecurity director has resigned.
Date: 03/09/09
Keywords: security
Rod Beckstrom, an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has resigned the position of National Director of Cybersecurity. Mr. Beckstrom's position, which reported to the head of DHS, involved wrestling the all of the different Federal agencies into forming a coherent cybersecurity policy. His role...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2832
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Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar
Date: 03/08/09
Keywords: security
Radio Free Europe is reporting that an official from Putin's party has publicly stated that he orchestrated the 2007 DDoS Attacks on Estonia. The information security and military communities have been speculating for the past two years about who were the primary actors behind the 2007 Estonian...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2828
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Twitter and identity theft
Date: 03/06/09
Keywords: security
Someone hacked the Twitter account of ZDNet colleague, Dennis Howlett, exposing security as a serious Twitter weakness. by Michael Krigsman
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=2229