Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Unfortunately, ActiveX controls are ideal tools for those who would attack your computer. Over the years, Internet Explorer has been their favored vehicle. It was built to take advantage of ActiveX controls.
These controls pose a serious security threat that outweighs their benefits. So it's important to take steps to protect ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is asking banks to warn their customers against logging into their accounts on public machines. Many computers used for public internet access have surveillance spyware installed on them. The spyware might take screenshots, record keystrokes and monitor web addresses visited; ... then send ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you use an alternative browser--Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, or anything not named Internet Explorer--you may be feeling pretty smug these days. Every time you hear about another patch for IE or about another way hackers use that browser to attack unsuspecting Web users, you think to yourself, "I don't have ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), a group of IT companies and public interest groups, is hoping to succeed where a previous vendor organization failed in tackling the global problem of spyware. The ASC released an agreed-upon draft definition of spyware this week that it hopes will promote public comment and ultimately ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said that he couldn't define obscenity, but that he knew it when he saw it.
The same has long been the case with spyware. It's not easy to define, but most people know it when parasitic programs suck up resources on their computer and clog ...
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