Well, if you or your company only think you need to protect yourselves from external threats, let this be a wakeup call for you.  A computer expert who used to work for a company in Buffalo recently admitted that he hacked into the businesses systems.  Chances are, this was extremely easy for him to accomplish […]

With it being the holiday season, it’s understandable that spammers are going to launch everything they can to see what works.  Which is unfortunate since that means more and more of these emails will get past junk mail filters, meaning you have to manually remove them yourself.  Just brace yourself for it, since it will […]

Computerworld - will rely on the storage include using 10TB to 20TB for electronic message tracking to analyze the relationships between messages to improve security, looking for trends and indicators among many magnetic resonance imaging scans, analyzing computer
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With the amount of people who have the Google Toolbar, this could be considered a big problem.  Fortunately, there are a lot of steps involved for this exploitation to be successful.  Because of the amount of steps necessary for this exploit to be successful, it is not really a huge concern for people.  Nonetheless though, […]

Softpedia - But at the same time, and this is a direct result of Apple’s irresponsible marketing techniques, OS X has somewhat of an aura of impermeability to malicious code. In fact, among the list of reasons delivered by the Cupertino-based software company as
Adobe Ships ‘Highly Critical’ Flash Player PatcheWeek - A […]

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, CAPTCHA’s are simply those pictures of random letter/number codes you are required to enter in a text box to proceed with a certain form.  For the most part, they are just random text and numbers, but every once in a while, they will spit out […]

Dallas Morning News - said she monitors reports from school resource officers and teens who are part of a school district anti-drug task force. She hears about parties where teens pluck from a bowl of assorted prescription pills. It’s called “pharming
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Have you ever been a victim of ’swatting’?  If your saying to yourself that you are not sure, then you have not been a victim (fortunately).  Swatting is the prank where people make 911 calls that look like they come from your location and call in an emergency where the SWAT team gets involved.  This […]

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Some opponents say the system may jeopardize the privacy of patients taking pain pills if hackers or others got access. Database supporters had taken a low-key approach, but say they will turn up the heat next year because prescription drugs have
Cisco Issues Inaugural Report on Global Security LandscapeMSN […]

Computerworld Australia - We feel that we can build a broader umbrella by recognizing spam and malware before it reaches the network on one end, and by helping people monitor the outward flow of information on the other,” Petry said. “We want to provide a stronger level of
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