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December 19, 2008
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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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Written on
November 28, 2008
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Jerson
コンピューターウィルスはユーザーにとって日々の脅威です。 日を追って危険になってきました。 ある日、ウィルスがあなたの個人的情報を見つけ犯罪に使うため、あなたのアイデンティティを盗むかもしれません。
スパイウェアやトロイの馬、ウォームなどをあなたのシステムに発生させる無料のソフトがあります。 無料だからといって、そのようなソフトを全部試用するのは止めましょう。 その他にはポップアップをインストールし、ユーザーを悩ませるものもあります。
良いアンチウィルスソフトをインストールし、これらの攻撃からあなたのコンピューターを守り、自分を保護してください。 ファイヤーウォールを使うと、あなたのシステムに入ろうとするハッカーのリスクをかなり削減することが出来ます。
今日ではブラウザーがポップアップブロッカーを装備しているので、あなたの好きなサイトを見る時はこの特徴を使って執拗なポップアップを防ぐ事が出来ます。 パスワードの規則的変更もよいでしょう。 パスワードは自分だけが知っておくように注意しましょう。 他の人、お母さんにも教えないでください。
被害者にならないように自分を保護するためには、いくつかの方法があります。
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November 24, 2008
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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
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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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September 28, 2008
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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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Written on
August 19, 2008
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Jerson
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Remember what your computer teachers or anyone good enough, told you not to tell your “secret words” (Meaning, not just your passwords) to anyone? Well, some hackers send malicious softwares or malwares to capture your keystrokes, copy your precious data, or even control your computer to hack another person. Okay, maybe you know about that too, and even the “hackers use websites for these purposes” thing. But! Did you know that Youtube is not that different from these sites? That’s right. Youtube has these links, and you might just open these things since these links looks trust worthy, and your “friend” sent this link. In short, Youtube is not different from Myspace now. Well, to save yourself from these hackers, just use the search engine in Youtube, or if the link is not in youtube, copy the link and paste it to yahoo or google, and their protection might show the true face of that page. But if you think that its such a hassle, then just don’t open it.
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July 8, 2008
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Jerson
Top Ten Reasons why Websites Get Hacked
Experts say most Web applications can be hacked. Here are the top ten vulnerabilities that could put your Web site at risk.
1. Cross site scripting
2. Injection flaws
3. Malicious file execution
4. Insecure direct object reference
5. Cross site request forgery
6. Information leakage and improper error handling
7. Broken authentication and session management
8. Insecure cryptographic storage
9. Insecure communications
10. Failure to restrict URL access
SOURCE: OWASP (the Open Web Application Security Project)
Related Links For added reading : NetworkWorld.com
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Written on
June 7, 2008
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Jerson
Probe : Unusual attempts to gain access or discover something about system.
Scan : Many probes done using an automated tool.
Account Compromise : Unauthorized use of a computer account by someone other than the account owner.
Root Compromise : Similar to an account compromise, except that the account that has been compromised has special privileges on the system.
Packet Sniffer : A program that captures data from information packets as they travel over the network.
Denial of Service : The goal of denial-of-service attacks is to prevent legitimate users of a service from using it.
Exploitation of Trust : Computers on networks often have trust relationships with one another. For example, before executing some commands, the computer checks a set of files that specify which other computers on the network are permitted to use those commands. If attackers can forge their identity, appearing to be using the trusted computer, they may be able to gain unauthorized access to other computers.
Malicious Code : Programs like viruses, worms and Trojan horses.
Internet Infrastructure Attacks : Rare attacks on network name servers, network access providers, and large archive sites.
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May 27, 2008
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by: Djai Tanji
Google is now adding Web security for net surfing and remote workers to its Google Apps set of office tools. Google Web Security for Enterprise comprising real time malware protection and URL filtering with policy implementation and reporting and this was made possible by Postini, which was last year’s acquisition of security vendor. There is an additional feature that extends the same protections to users who works remotely on laptops in cafes, hotels, restaurants and guest networks. This allows companies to protect their networks from Web-based malware , implement internet use policies at the user, company level and workgroup, and Google Web security will receive comprehensible reporting on all web activities.
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May 16, 2008
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by: Djai Tanji
ScanSafe offers a “Web Security as a Service” when report presents state of global information security threats. This offer by ScanSafe provides a managed service which means that there is nothing for customers to install or maintain on-premise, routing its clients’ web traffic by secure proxies to scan content in real-time that will secure them from malware and also give a way for them to impose acceptable web usage policies. They were able to scan more than 80 billion web requests and blocked more than 800 million web threats in 2007 on behalf of corporate customers in more than 50 countries. And password stealing malware was the most frequent type of attacks in the blocked events which was about 37% of total attacks.
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