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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...ignore but God forbid we should never accept Spyware is computer software that spies on your internet usage. It collects highly personal and confidential information like credit card numbers, IPs and even addresses. The spyware program gets the credit card entries as the user logs them on a web form or an online application. Some spyware are...
 
Tags: spyware programs, decent anti-spyware programs, anti-spyware programs regularly, anti-spyware programs, spyware, free, popular free anti-spyware, spyware program, spyware program offer
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Emails Generating Botnet Scaling

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2008-04-18 14:57:30 by HASH0x8aef3f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...ignore this notice! *** This is robot generated message please do not reply *** (C) 2008 Natwest Bankline. All Rights Reserved. Attached File: "ods096.gif" (image/gif Sender Address: "NatWest Bank On-line Banking'2008" to Recipient: Subject: Natwest OnLine Banking Important Notice From Technical Department Id: 9044 Email Content:...
 
Tags: bank, bank digital, ns1, bank bankline, ns2, bank internet, malware, malware variants signal, botnet
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...ignore any such advice -- and it's amazing how often I continue to see this. By the way, also ignore any advice that says to use MAC address filtering . It's amazingly trivial to spoof the MAC address of an allowed supplicant -- simply sniff the traffic, look at the MAC addresses, and use the neat little SMAC utility to change your MAC to one...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Antivirus software -- who needs it?

2007-09-23 04:14:44 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...ignore the fact that malware is getting more sophisticated. Nor can we ignore the fact that, as I have this conversation with other security experts and similarly-minded folk, I often ask this question: "When's the last time your antivirus or antispyware detected anything?" Invariably, the answer is, "Never
 
Tags: curious question, question, question arises, choose, malware, experts, security experts, anti-malware, anti-virus software
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Ignore attachments you dont expect, avoid pleas for giving to charities, dismiss any messages that promise easy money, and dont reply to any spamall this does is confirm that your e-mail address is legitimate, guaranteeing that youll get more. Teach your FFN to make regular use of Snopes.com , one of the best sites on the Internet for...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...ignore raw stats for a moment, let's not compare RedHat to Mac OSX to Ubuntu to Windows Vista, because let's face it, no-one can agree on any measurement of security without getting knotted up. So let's just ignore the comparison stuff. Measuring security is a real challenge, and while we may debate the merits of vulnerability counts, right...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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Please close me so I can continue

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2007-12-09 10:41:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
This morning I was installing the recently released .NET 3.5 redistributable on a machine and had to laugh when it showed me this. Note the title bar - the application is literally asking me to close it so it can continue. FWIW, pressing ignore seemed to make it happy
 
Tags: close, continue, title bar, recently, application, ignore, net, note, redistributable
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...ignored. Reliability people, on the other hand, must deal with the entirety of the application because reliability bugs can be anywhere. Reliability folks deal with this by weighting their tests according to an operational profile, an unwieldy proposition at best and one that security folks can safely ignore (because hackers dont follow an...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare has a Broken Light

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2008-01-16 04:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
My continuing saga using Windows Live OneCare Like most security products, this one puts an icon in the taskbar. This one glows green if everything is OK, yellow if there's somthing minor wrong, or red if there's something really wrong. For example, it'll glow red while your firewall is disabled By the way, that's one thing I really like about...
 
Tags: onecare, windows, windows live onecare, contact onecare support, onecare dashboard, light, wrong, firewall, replacement firewall