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Ars Technica has a good and easy-to-understand article on essential security programs for Windows, Linux and Mac computers. Great, free tools for locking down your own or others' computers
A Canadian public service organization has filed a complaint against the use of Deep Packet inspections used by Service Providers like Bell Canada. Many service providers say theyre not interested in recreating and storing the content of messagesbut their ability to do so might put their customers privacy at risk
Because DPI can drill down into...
...Ars Technica
AG creates Cyber Crimes Unit division: Conway hopes to target Internet predators | Medical Leader News
Outsourcing contracts must offer personal data security | Computer Weekly
Windows Inspection Tool Set Helps You Troubleshoot Your System | AppScout
Web Application Security: Dont Bolt It On; Build It In | IT Business Net...
...Ars Technica
The center will have the capacity to handle 10,000 computers a year, and the machines that are salvageable will be resold for the local equivalent of $175, about a third of the cost of new computers there. When a computer is deemed past the point of rescue, the centers are capable of recycling the components. RAM chips will be...
...Ars Technica
Being a Government Security CISO: Life in the Fishbowl | Bloginfosec
Current cyber-security defences ineffective ( deduct 10 points for use of cyber ) | vnunet
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...Ars Technica
The new rules, proposed in a letter by Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-MA), would allow members to use third-party sites so long as official content is not posted on a website or page where it may appear with commercial or political information
This would be difficult since most third-party sites like YouTube display automatically...
...Ars says today that the net backbone bandwidth is in fact growing and plenty prepared to swallow those cats. Actually they use a prettier analogy
Given recent media coverage, its easy to believe that P2P and streaming video traffic is a rising hurricane battering upon ISP levees, that ISPs are frantically sandbagging their systems against...