you may be the victim of software counterfeit
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 21:43
If you are using pirated or unregistered windows copy and installed the new updates recently, you will get a popup message that you may be the victim of software counterfeit. Millions of computers using pirated os are getting this message. The simple and ethical solution is buy new one. Microsoft is certainly entitled to protect their IP by annoying pirates into buying cd keys", but the tone of the rest of the piece sounds like you don't really believe it. Can you name any cases (sofware or otherwise) where merchandise or IP that's known to be stolen (or counterfeited) from the manufacturer ...
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What is a spear phishing scam
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 22:56
ou've probably heard of phishing scams: fraudulent e-mail messages or fake Web sites designed to steal your identity. Scam artists "phish" in an attempt to persuade millions of people to disclose sensitive information. For information on standard phishing scams, see Recognize phishing scams and fraudulent e-mails. What is a spear phishing scam? Spear phishing describes any highly targeted phishing attack. Spear phishers send e-mail that appears genuine to all the employees or members within a certain company, government agency, organization, or group. Spear phishers often customize e-mails with information they've found on Web sites, blogs, or social networking sites like Facebook ...
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No virus protective system is harmless
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 8:49
If one speaks computer virus protection, anti-virus software and about party walls, it is important to stress that no virus protective system is harmless. Upper security of computer systems often by Haecker and computer criminals were even seeped simply, by programming a virus. Documents were deleted, accounts and identities were stolen, and confidential documents were reached by this Haeckern. This is not to say that anti-virus of softwares it are useless to underline but that these programs work and accomplish better with the support of the users. Computer viruses are programs, which reproduce themselves and documents and disks ...
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Issues surrounding banking IT security
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:17
There are to many internal bank auditors that think that with a class or two can understand the issues surrounding banking IT security, business continuity, or networking infrustructure. It is the reason that OTS frowns on self audits for the IT infrastructure and frequently demands external audits. It is far easier for a technology professional to apply the regulatory standards to the bank's IT infrastructure and determine the threats and risk exposures associated with the technology, then for the banking professional to accumulate the years of technical knowledge to rise to the level of CISO. In these days of identity ...
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Who is using Ajax
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 4:11
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach. All of the major products Google has introduced over the last year — Orkut, Gmail, the latest beta version of Google Groups, Google Suggest, and Google Maps — are Ajax applications. (For more on the technical nuts and bolts of these Ajax implementations, check out these excellent analyses of Gmail, Google Suggest, and Google Maps.) Others are following suit: many of the features that people love in Flickr depend on Ajax, and Amazon’s A9.com search engine applies similar techniques. These ...
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Understanding botnet or zombie army
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:26
A botnet is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet. Any such computer is referred to as a zombie - in effect, a computer "robot" or "bot" that serves the wishes of some master spam or virus originator. Most computers compromised in this way are home-based.Botnet is also know as zombie army. According to a report from Russian-based Kaspersky Labs, botnets -- not spam, viruses, or worms -- currently pose the biggest threat to the Internet. A ...
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