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re: RealPlayer Releases Update

Sean — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:54:53 GMT

I wish they would release a new version of enterprise. It is far less cluttered then other releases, looks like I will have to change though.

re: Cybercrime Treaty Gains Momentum

Vanessa — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:36:20 GMT

Countries should realise that the cyberworld has no borders. Universal guidelines should be framed to tackle the cyber criminals. The internet should be an open and free space for people who are keen to use it in a positive way. For the hackers and criminals it should be a tough place to reside.

By the way, you might want to have a look at this post <a href="www.engineeringservicesoutsourcing.com/.../cybercrime-evolution-future-trends.html"> Cybercrime - Evolution Future Trends </a> that

discusses the latest happenings in this field.

re: Federal Subpoena Spear-Phishing Attack

vicor louis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:55:59 GMT

It is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers.

“This is one of the best phish e-mails I've seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneur

Remember, that it is not legal to send subpoena via emails unless it is agreed by the people. Also All US Federal courts have URLs of the form “courtname.uscourts.gov” and not in the form

“uscourts.com” mentioned in email. So Beware of these kinds of mails. The Abaca Email Protection Gateway (http://abaca.com/) service was the only service I know that quarantined these emails.

re: Habbo Hotel Trojan Keylogger

Kathie — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:25:23 GMT

I am almost sure that if all the Habbo users were protected enough they wouldn't have become 'victims'. I usually recommend to all my clients the following list of software:

Firewall : Zone Alarm Pro(http://www.zonealarm.com)

Anti-Keylogger: Privacy Keyboard(http://www.anti-keylogger.com)

Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-Virus 2008(http://www.symantec.com/)

Anti-Spyware: Spy Catcher(http://www.tenebril.com/)

Having this installed, nothing would have happened, I am sure.

re: New Storm Tactic: Krackin Software

Natalie McDonald — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:22:08 GMT

Thank you for the warning. I received an e-mail telling me "you have got to check this out" this morning. I deleted the e-mail, ran a search on "Krackin" and found your page. Much appreciated!

re: FireEye Builds A 'Botwall' To Fend Off Botnet Attacks

Bob — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:21:32 GMT

Botnets are going to fight back hard against any sort of 'network' combating them. p2p is the least of the worries. They better have something better than a 'botwall' to stop a distributed grid computer that is more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined.

re: More browser bugs, but less risk?

Asa Dotzler — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:54:28 GMT

I think that the claim of "more bugs" is not really fair. Mozilla discloses all fixed security bugs. The other browser vendors only disclose bugs found by third parties. If Microsoft disclosed all of the security flaws they fix, I'll bet their list would be a lot longer

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What is Internet facing?

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:37:32 GMT

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re: Apple patches some Windows Safari's bugs

Bob — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:17:11 GMT

The Safari Browser has far too many bugs to be considered ready and given the number of websites you cannot visit, are rendered incorrectly, or simply cause it to crash -- it calls into question the overall quality of Apple software. It may look pretty, I cannot deny this, but if it does not actually do what it is intended all of the baby-blue scrollbars in the world will not save it. I hope they can overcome these problems because I would love to make it my default browser. It is, afterall, very fast and renders very nicely. Until then, it is still Firefox and IE.

re: Apple patches some Windows Safari's bugs

*** Carlson — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:08:38 GMT

My goodness -- three whole days for patches to be released?

How in the world do these people think they're going to stay in business with a lag like that?

I suppose next thing they'll take 5 years to release a new OS.

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