Monday, 21 May 2012
SPAM - a lot of meat but not a lot of money. In the Internet world, spam (unsolicited messages) are certainly cheap to buy, build and deploy but with the right data mining software - aka business intelligence tools - you get a lot for your money. Don't believe me? Ask Google!
Google is making the technology available to developers and security specialists to make it more useful.
W32.Gaptcha.Worm is able to crack Gmail's CAPTCHA system.
The topic of the false positive has always been an issue for the security profession and the topic has been in the news again recently; last week, following the announcement of Michael Jackson’s death, Google News found its website so inundated with page requests that its security systems and analysts mistook the legitimate traffic for a denial of service attack.
New spam campaign targets hosting spaces by Yahoo, Google, and LiveJournal.
Botnet masters use IRC or peer-to-peer protocol to send orders to zombie computers to store or steal data.
On the heels of news last week that Google and Adobe were attacked by hackers, supposedly from China, reports have come in that Yahoo was one of more than 30 companies hit by a sophisticated online attack designed to steal intellectual property and collect information on Chinese dissidents.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was one of the vectors used in a targeted attack against Google, but many are questioning why Google wasn't using its own Chrome web browser...
Microsoft recently released a patch update addressing eight critical errors. The update addresses all versions of Internet Explorer.
Google follows Mozilla's footsteps and opens up a reward program offering a minimum of $500 per eligible bug.
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MasterCard tackles BYOD with strict conditions
More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work.
HID Global deploys a centralized, web-based IP access control solution at Fuxi Power Plant
Unable to meet the needs for real-time monitoring with its traditional patrol system, China's Fuxi Power Plant has deployed HID Global's VertX V2000.
