Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Symantec Corp. today announced the availability of Symantec Online Fraud Protection, a comprehensive program that includes Symantec services, education and ongoing monitoring and management capabilities designed to protect businesses that conduct large volumes of financial transactions and their customers from losses due to online fraud.
This offering helps businesses shield their ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls.
A traditional firewall and its access control lists "is not capable of doing its job today from an access-control perspective," says CEO and President Shane Buckley. "Nowadays, your ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Researchers have developed techniques for stealing computer data from a computer using some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.
In two separate pieces of research, teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany, describe attacks that seem ripped from the pages of spy novels. ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
For those of you that do not know, Paypal allows their registered users to generate temporary MasterCard credit card numbers on the fly to be used on websites that do not allow secure payment methods such as PayPal or Google Checkout.
When you log into your PayPal account, you should see ...
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