Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Verizon.net is home to more than twice as many spam-spewing zombies as any other major Internet service provider in the United States, according to an analysis of the most recent data from anti-spam outfit Spamhaus.org. Verizon, however, says it plans to put measures in place to prevent it from being ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
A change to Facebook's terms of service, which extends control over user content to profiles that have been shut down, has prompted nearly 20,000 users to join protest groups.
Users signing a contract with Facebook give full control of their social networking content to the company, including the right to copy, ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Sun today released VirtualBox 2.1.4, the second maintenance release of VitualBox 2.1 which improves stability and performance. See the ChangeLog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 2.1.2.
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
A technique for worsening the effects of a distributed denial-of-service-type attacks uses a feature in the DNS system that was once designed to be helpful. Patching it could involve reconfiguring millions of domain-name servers, or even rethinking how the system works.
A DDoS attack, of course, involves bombarding a target site ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
To steal your identity, a cybercriminal doesn't have to have direct access to your bank account or other personal information. Often, he collects information about you from a variety of seemingly innocuous sources, then uses that data to map out a strategy to crack your online defenses and drain your ...
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