Thursday, April 24th, 2008 The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later this year in one of its domains.ICANN officials said the organization ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Today Microsoft is unveiling a technology preview to a really neat new software+services platform called Live Mesh. Live Mesh is a brand new platform that helps your devices act together through the internet enabling users such as you and me to manage, access, and share their files and applications from ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Our columnist shows you how to get rid of spyware, shrug off spam, and stay safe on unsecured public networks.Viruses, spyware, and worms. Oh, my!We all know the dangers inherent in accessing the Internet, and we all take precautions. Yet our PCs still occasionally get infected because we can't know ...
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