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| Kids
Break Porn Filter |
08/29/2007 | |
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The Australian government Monday admitted
no Internet child safeguards were foolproof after a
teenager claimed he was able to break through its
multi-million dollar pornography filter in minutes.
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| Digital Car Keys Hacked |
08/28/2007 | |
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Israeli and Belgian security experts have
discovered a flaw in the algorithm used to protect
anti-theft digital key systems in a wide range of cars,
including cars from Honda, Ford, General Motors,
Mercedes Benz and Jaguar. |
| Hacker Safe Popularity Growing |
08/28/2007 | |
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Earlier this month Yahoo! announced it was
including merchants' Hacker Safe security seals within
Yahoo! Shopping pages. Now PriceGrabber has announced
the same deal- and there are rumors that other
comparison shopping sites are soon to follow, creating a
sea-change in the web site trust mark business.
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| Security Fence Slow to Grow |
08/27/2007 | |
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Nearly a year after Congress passed
legislation calling for the construction of 700 miles of
new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 15 miles
have been built, according to the Department of Homeland
Security. |
| Pharmacy Spams Nuclear Blog |
08/27/2007 | |
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The Web site for the institution charged
with safeguarding the safety and integrity of the U.S.
nuclear arsenal has been inadvertently hosting
advertisements and blogs that link to illegal
prescription drug sites hawking everything from generic
painkillers to erectile dysfunction medication, Security
Fix has learned. |
| Computer Misuse Act Violated over
Wireless Access |
08/26/2007 | |
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Police officers in London arrested a
39-year-old man using his laptop to access someone elses
wireless Internet connection on Tuesday. His actions
could potentially breach the Computer Misuse Act and the
Communications Act, according to a Metropolitan Police
Service statement. |
| eBay
Says Skype Not Victim of Russian Hackers |
08/21/2007 | |
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Skype has not been attacked, eBay Inc.
said Friday, dispelling rumors that Russian hackers took
down its popular online telephony service.
EBay
attributes the outage to a problem in a Skype networking
algorithm, but code has been posted to a Russian
security discussion forum that could supposedly be used
to knock the service offline in a DOS
(denial-of-service) attack. |
| Google Gets Behind Click Fraud |
08/20/2007 | |
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Google has unveiled a Web site resource
center focused on the thorny issue of click fraud,
which many consider a potential threat to the Googles
main source of revenue: Pay-per-click advertising.
Google developed the new Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center
primarily to give its advertisers a single place to find
Google information about click fraud, said Shuman
Ghosemajumder, business product manager for trust and
safety at Google, on Friday. |
| Rewriting History |
08/20/2007 | |
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A US hackers homemade program to pinpoint
origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to
the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA
and the Vatican.
The Wikiscanner Identities Revealed
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| Australia Attempting to Thwart
Perverts |
08/17/2007 | |
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Australia will provide a free Internet
filtering service and access to a hotline in a bid to
thwart perverts seeking to contact children, Prime
Minister John Howard said. |
| ISPs
Lack Responsibility |
08/16/2007 | |
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A new report on Internet safety has
concluded ISPs should take more responsibility for
online security since end users are often lax.
But the 121-page Personal Internet Security
report, published on Friday by the U.K. House of Lords,
stopped short of suggesting that the Office of
Communications, the U.K. communications regulator --
should impose new rules on ISPs.
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| Confidential Data Stolen |
08/15/2007 | |
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Internet hackers have stolen confidential
data on 60,000 Norwegians, including the head of the
agency for safeguarding them, the agency itself revealed
Friday. |
| Kids
Outsmarting Adults Online |
08/14/2007 | |
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The gap is widening between what kids do
online and what their parents think they do.
A
new study shows that children are online twice as much
as their parents think they are and nearly one-quarter
are getting away with forbidden online activities,
according to security company Symantec, which
commissioned Harris Interactive to do the poll.
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| Security Logos |
08/11/2007 | |
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Great collection of diverse Security Logos. If you are building a
security related website or product line consider using
one of these security logos.
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| Forensic Tools Fall Under Hacker
Laws |
08/10/2007 | |
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A law that makes it a crime to host online
or otherwise provide software that could be used in
cyber attacks went into effect in Germany. While the
reaction from Germanys hacker culture has been somewhat
muted, the measure is already prompting changes within
one of the worlds most active computer security research
and hacking communities.
The trouble with this
kind of law is that it is awfully difficult to pin down
the definition of a computer program designed for
malicious purposes. But the forensic tools that are
needed to find and close software and network security
holes become a double-edged sword because they can
almost always also be used by criminals to probe for or
exploit potential weaknesses in a target.
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| Lobby Tracking Secure Tracking |
08/09/2007 | |
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Jolly Technologies announces the
availability of Lobby Track, a new secure tracking,
access control and visitor management software system;
ID Flow, the next-generation software for ID card
design, data and production.
These innovative new
technologies will allow organizations to track employees
and equipment with detailed activity logs by individual
or groups; set access control policy; and provide
visitor management functionality, including data entry,
advanced ID card and badge design and printing.
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| Preparing Children for
Emergencies |
08/07/2007 | |
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Intense circumstances create high amounts
of stress, not only for adults, but children also.
Whether it is a fire, flood or earthquake, children need
to know what to do and how to do it in order to minimize
stress and anxiety. Have you heard stories on the news
about a child who saves a family by staying calm,
calling 911, and following directions? Being prepared to
help in an emergency saves lives. What makes it possible
for a child in a high stress situation to be ready to
help?
Preparing Children for Emergencies
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| Voting Systems Fail |
08/05/2007 | |
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California released the results of the
states extensive testing of electronic voting systems.
State-sanctioned teams of computer specialists were able
to break through the security of every model of voting
machine and change results or take control of some of
the systems' electronic functions.
Some county
elections officials in the state voiced concerns about
the study, saying they worry that they could be forced
to junk millions of dollars in voting machines if the
California Secretary of State decertifies them for the
February election. |
| Secure Instant Messaging |
08/04/2007 | |
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If you're like me you do not like any one
reading your shit. The following links and instructions
will show you Windows users how to route your IM
connections through three other computers around the
world and how to use encrypted IM. Not only will your IM
be near impossible to trace but people in the middle
wont be able to sniff your traffic either.
complete
article
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| US
Military Gangs |
08/03/2007 | |
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Evidence of gang culture and gang activity
in the military is increasing so much an FBI report
calls it a threat to law enforcement and national
security. The signs are chilling: Marines in gang
attire on Parris Island; paratroopers flashing gang hand
signs at a nightclub near Ft. Bragg; infantrymen
showing-off gang tattoos at Ft. Hood.
It's
obvious that many of these people do not give up their
gang affiliations, said Hunter Glass, a retired
police detective in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the
home of Ft. Bragg and the 82nd Airborne. He monitors
gang activity at the base and across the military.
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| Student Social Security Numbers
Posted |
08/02/2007 | |
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Students who were in the 10th grade in the
St. Mary Parish School System in Louisiana between 2001
and 2003 may have had their Social Security number
appear on the Board of Regents Web site for a couple of
hours earlier this month. |
| Internet Jihad |
08/01/2007 | |
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Muslim hardliners are becoming more savvy
at dodging national security scrutiny as they
increasingly ditch the mosque for the internet to reach
their followers and disseminate messages of
hate.
Counter-terrorism experts warned yesterday
that Islamic radicals were developing a greater interest
in secretly spreading their beliefs and ideologies
through internet chat rooms to maximize their potential
audience and make it more difficult for authorities to
trace them. |
| Internet Censorship Increasing |
07/31/2007 | |
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State restrictions on use of the Internet
have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all
and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and
stifle feared political opposition, a new report says.
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| Sexual Predators Online |
07/30/2007 | |
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Reports indicate that sexual predators are
targeting Moms and their online dating habits as a way
to prey on children! |
| LinkedIn Security Flaws in
Toolbar |
08/03/2007 | |
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Security researchers are reporting a
public exploit has been designed that could take
advantage of critical security flaws in the LinkedIn
Internet Explorer Toolbar.
The vulnerabilities
do not apply to the Linkedin.com Web site, only the
LinkedIn IE toolbar.
Users of the LinkedIn
social-networking site that have the IE toolbar
installed on their computers could be at risk of a
remote attack, should they visit a malicious Web site.
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| Search Engines Suddenly Care About
Privacy |
08/02/2007 | |
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After years of insisting that they should
be trusted to keep user search histories indefinitely,
search engines are suddenly competing to limit data
retention.
In March, Googles announcement
that it would anonymize user data after 18 to 24 months
was met by silence from the rest of the industry. But
after further announcements last week from Google and
No. 4 search engine Ask.com, Microsoft on Sunday
announced it would be matching Googles 18-month policy.
And Monday, Yahoo announced it would leap-frog both
companies and anonymize data after 13 months.
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| Miss
America All About Internet Safety |
08/01/2007 | |
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Lauren Nelson, the current Miss America,
asked Congress to mandate Internet safety classes for
children to educate them about online predators and
other threats.
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| 29,000 Sex Offenders on
MySpace |
07/31/2007 | |
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MySpace.com has found more than 29,000
registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular
social networking Web site — more than four times the
number cited by the company two months ago, officials in
two states Tuesday. |
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| FBI
and China Nail Pirates |
07/30/2007 | |
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The FBI said Tuesday that a joint effort
with the Chinese authorities had led to the arrest of 25
people and the seizing of more than $500 million worth
of counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec software that was
being made in China and distributed
worldwide.
The arrests, according to industry
executives, represented the most significant crackdown
on software piracy. |
| Forensic Software Not Secure |
07/29/2007 | |
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Forensic software used to investigate
computer crime is not as secure as it should be,
according to researchers with Isec Partners.
The
security company spent the past six months investigating
two forensic programs, Guidance Software EnCase, and an
open-source product called The Sleuth Kit. It discovered
about a dozen bugs that could be used to crash the
programs or possibly even install unauthorised software
on an investigator machine, according to Alex Stamos,
founding partner with Isec Partners.
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