Saturday, February 14th, 2009 To steal your identity, a cybercriminal doesn't have to have direct access to your bank account or other personal information. Often, he collects information about you from a variety of seemingly innocuous sources, then uses that data to map out a strategy to crack your online defenses and drain your ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009 A number of industry heavywights have unveiled the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), a new specification jointly developed by Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales."Our customers' IT environments are growing in complexity and, at the same time, these companies are under extreme pressures to meet compliance regulations and ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 The Partial GET Request (HTTP 206 Status Code) of a WAV file results in a Denial of Service of the application.Last HTTP packet from Firefox before the DoS is listed below in RAW format:GET /fpaudio/footprints_waves.wav HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.6001.7001 WMFSDK/11.0
UA-CPU: x86
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Range: bytes=34848-
Unless-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:57 GMT
If-Range: "4f0018-440f2-434d403204440"
Host: ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 This is an excellent article that lists 10 ways to protect your privacy on Facebook. Read the article for the full details, but here's a quick summary:Use Your Friend Lists
Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results
Remove Yourself From Google
Avoid the Infamous Photo/Video Tag Mistake
Protect Your Albums
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 PandaLabs, a computer security firm, is reporting that cyber-crooks are setting traps on popular news-sharing website Digg.Criminals pose as legitimate Digg members and then entice readers with bogus links to scintillating online video in comments posted in forums related to celebrity news, according to the Spain-based firm.Digg is a website ...
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