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June 29, 2009
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Jerson
A man is convicted to serve five years in jail after being convicted of being the creator of a botnet that had in it’s peak infected almost half a million computers, spreading spam and adware. The man, Jeanson James Ancheta at a young age of 21 is set to serve a total of 57 months in prison, which is considered to be one of the the longest ever sentence for computer crimes. He drew the curiosity of government cyber-security people when he tried to infiltrate computers owned by the US Naval Warfare Center and the Defense Information Systems Agency, both of which were being constantly attacked by hackers and botnets. Please tell me more! »
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Written on
May 29, 2009
by
Jerson
The software giant announced that it will be releasing their own Windows embedded anti-virus that raises some eyebrows in the IT industry. Why, well the company has been known to be the most attacked PC platform on earth compared to other operating systems due to their ways of old. This hatred of the company stems back from the days when Microsoft was involved in what can be called “steal then deal”, when they were involved in getting nifty software form the many start up firms who produced respectable programs they embedded within their OS releases. This is sure to result in lawsuits which the company then opted to settle out of court, buying out the rights and even the company in a hostile take-over. Please tell me more! »
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Written on
April 29, 2009
by
Jerson
Meanwhile, the cure the anti-virus programmers are not always perfect, so it can be considered a first response which may not fully contain the situation. This is where people make the biggest mistake in their security platform, that the programs they have installed are there to protect and prevent whilst the truth cannot be farther from the truth for the infection has already been active, way before it was detected. The follow-up security updates to security software makes the necessary adjustments enough to cope with the spread, halting it in it’s track, hopefully. The false security we feel works only if the threat is known which is true for variants of already known threats. New viruses are only known as much as the programmers who race to find a cure for it can work. Please tell me more! »
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Written on
March 29, 2009
by
Jerson
The world of cyber-crime has grown so much in these past few years due to the explosion of growth with respect to the number of internet users the world over. It has not only expanded on the side of normal people but on the side of cyber-criminals who now operate on their own networks, spanning the globe and ready to spread their products, malicious code that first scans the globe for weak points in the security net that we all put up to somewhat give us a sense of security from the ever-growing threat which is actually futile to some extent. Please tell me more! »
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Written on
February 18, 2009
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editor
It is unfortunate that many people nowadays see passwords as an annoyance rather than a necessity. They only learn their lesson when important files are compromised. Today’s fast-paced world is no excuse to leave our personal information in the hands of those who seek to abuse it.
The best way to avoid this is to make a strong password. The habit of making easy to guess passwords should stop with you. Stop using passwords that use your birthday or wedding anniversary, because these are the first things hackers use when they try to access your system. Make a password that is your own, preferably alphanumeric, which uses both letters and numbers. If you have a hard time remembering it, write it on a small piece of paper and keep it somewhere safe.
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Written on
January 12, 2009
by
Jerson
The much known Conficker worm has been in the sights of the many web security experts since it was discovered a few years back. It has evolved and changed the way it works and is assured to be once again in the hot-list this coming April Fools which is the hard-coded zero day for the said malware. What it’s going to do, nobody knows for there has been no solid proof of the intent of the makers of the famed worm. Many people on the internet have been trying to reverse engineer the program but that’s as far as they get, the location and name of it’s master not included in the code. Please tell me more! »
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December 19, 2008
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editor
Web Security begins and ends with the user, for they are the ones that anti-virus companies can never control nor solve with an engineering formula:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.
“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”
Hopefully the number goes down even further next year due to additional internet knowledge and ensure that internet security goes higher.
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November 24, 2008
by
Jerson
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Well, not by the terrorists. But by the computer terrorists. Those whose intentions are to seek and destroy other people’s and institutions’ properties and businesses. Now even the White House is being attacked. Just recently, it was also discovered that even presidential campaigns of Obama and McCain were hacked during summer. the White House email archives were compromised many times during the past months. After those attacks, they just put up new defense systems to counter those unnecessary attacks. A new unit tasked of keeping cyber security, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force were able to trace the attacks from servers that are based in China. Ultimately they were able to hack unclassified documents from the White House.
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October 7, 2008
by
Jerson
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To protect yourself from phishers, there is an easy way that offers reliable phishing scams detection. Netcraft is one. It focuses on tracking down online technology. It is a toolbar available in Internet Explorer and Firefox. And it has a great community for user support. It protects you from phishing attacks. Another tool bar that offers phishing protection is the Yahoo Toolbar. You can rest assured your Paypal and eBay accounts are safe. And the number one way of prevention of phishing attacks is by doing away with greed. Greed for money or to make lot of them makes our senses lose its focus and we tend to separate ourselves from the reality. The phishers use this fault to get past our common sense. Check you emails and read them carefully. Analyze the content. If its too good to be true then don not at any time entertain or respond to it. It is best to check on the main website of an account or bank rather than clicking on the links provided in the email, if you get important advisories from your accounts. There is no gold at the end of the rainbow and certainly, you will not win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket in the first place. So beware and never put your greed in the front.
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Written on
September 28, 2008
by
Jerson
Computer viruses threaten the user everyday. It gets more dangerous each day. One day they can tap into your personal information and steal your identity for criminal activities.
Tehre are free softwares that unleashes spyware, trojans, or worms on your system. So dont go trying them all out because its free. Others install popups which always annoys the users.
Arm your computer and protect yourself against these potential attecks by installing a good antivirus software. Using the firewall greatly reduces the risk of hackers crawling into your system.
Now adays, browsers are equipped with popup blockers, so you can enable this feature to ward of annoying popups while you view a certain page in your favorite site. Changing passwords regularly can be of good use. And dont forget to keep those passwords to yourself. Never indulge it to others, not even to your mother.
These are a few things that might protect you from becoming a victim.
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