Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Internet search engines are now one of the commonest means by which malware spreads, a new study has suggested.
The study carried out by McAfee?s spyware expert Ben Edelman using the company?s SiteAdvisor tool, analysed common searches on all the Net?s major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.
The ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Anybody with five bucks and a little patience may be able to score sensitive corporate data on eBay.
Organizations engaging in the common practice of disk drive recycling--selling unneeded disk drives directly or through a service--may find that company data winds up for sale on eBay's auction site, even if the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The biggest seller of home wireless LAN equipment is set to launch its gear for the next technology generation on Monday, introducing three products based on a draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
The still-emerging standard is designed to deliver at least 100 megabits per second of real throughput. That's more ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Wondering how likely you are to have your credit card number stolen? Well, according to a comprehensive survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), identity theft is affecting millions of households in the U.S each year and costing an estimated $6.4 billion per year.
About 3 percent of all ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Steve Gibson from GRC was talking about these "bogon" ip addresses that are still unused on the Internet. He estimates that approximately 40% of our current IP address space is bogon, or simply reserved and unallocated.
If you just look at the first byte or octet of the IP Address, ie n.*.*.* ...
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