Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.
The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Spammers have begun using come-ons such as stock-pushing images as e-mail stationery backgrounds to evade antispam technology and shovel their unwanted messages into your inbox.
One antispam vendor has spotted the technique in its early stages, but expects we'll see more of it. In a sample e-mail, the subject read 'GED' ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Anti-virus technologies are inconsistent when it comes to identifying attacks such as worms, phishing and botnets.
That's according to a report from the University of Michigan's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and network security company Arbor Networks, antivirus products are inconsistent at best when it comes to identifying attacks such ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
SanDisk on Monday announced a pair of USB flash drives designed to offer both security and access speed to business users.
Unveiled at the Gartner IT Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Cruzer Professional is designed for individuals and small businesses looking to share files, while Cruzer Enterprise includes such features as ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The arrest of Robert Soloway, the so-called "Spam King" who commanded a botnet of zombies that reportedly sent out billions of spam email messages every day, is a case study in just how difficult killing a botnet can be. His capture does not equate to the release of thousands of ...
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