Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Some say Win XP SP2 enhancements cause conflicts, don't protect as claimed.Security experts and vendors this week welcomed the introduction of Windows Firewall, part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), as a valuable way of protecting PCs. But while the firewall is an improvement, it falls short of the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Newsday is running a piece on bogus spyware applications that mimic successful free applications (like Spybot and AdAware), but either don't work, or worse: install spyware themselves. The article quotes Eric Howes, a BBR security forum regular, who maintains a list of 75 such suspect products, with more being added ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 From the scam of a lifetime department: A spammer in our Broadband Tweaks forum is pushing a referral scam service called Juice Boost, which promises users 2Mbps speeds for free, anywhere there's a phone line, using "State-of-the-art data compression, byte stream and ultimate data burst technology". The service also promises ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 While many systems administrators are turning to firewalls and routers to control content on port 80, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), as well as intrusion detection and prevention, attackers can use HTTP tunneling to bypass access control restrictions. Tunneling involves encapsulating traffic in HTTP headers; a tunneling program receives the HTTP ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Last week, InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist recommended that you stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser. He had good reason: The latest vulnerability reports point out some significant security holes in IE that aren?t going to be easily overcome.According to Rist (who is sitting behind me while I write ...
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