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December 2006 - Posts
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Secuirty Researcher B. Endelman reports that 4.4% of current organic search results link to sites rated as "risky" because of the presence of spyware, viruses, junk mail or excessive pop-ups. The study ran searches for 2,500 popular keywords on the major Read More...
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A Federal Ruling on electronic discovery requirements took effect December 1, 2006. The e-discovery rule will place more stringent electronic message archiving requirements on Businesses, Schools and Not-For-Profits (for a digestible summary go here ). Read More...
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For our first post to the MX News Blog, I thought it would be appropriate to dive into the hotest story of the Late Fall/Early Winter- Spam rates have soared (sored) into the stratosphere. According to Postini, Spam volumes increased by 60% in September Read More...
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Government Contractors (large and small) have special electronic message archiving requirements , which they must follow to be in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARS). The specifics of the retention requirements are complicated, Read More...
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Unfortunately, the short answer is yes. A recent study conducted by Jonathan Zittrain, an Oxford University professor and Laura Frieder, a Purdue University assistant professor, found that heavy volumes of pump and dump spam significantly increase the Read More...
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San Fran start-up Boxbe wants to bill email marketers and spammers for sending consumers email. The model works like this: Consumers set up a free email account and defines an approved senders list. Approved senders can email the consumer for free. Anyone Read More...
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The Boeing laptop theft earlier this month has pushed the tally of data breach victims in the United States over the 100 Million mark. The number is tracked by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse . Read More...
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According to security experts, Windows administrators and users can even more exploit patches in 2007 than they saw in 2006. Read More...
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The sophisticated 2006 backdoor trojan dubbed Rustock will be modeled by attackers in 2007 and beyond, security experts warn. The trojan uses advnaced rootkit technologies to avoid detection and bypass security software. Rustok buries itself into systems, Read More...
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As an interesting aside from our security posts AOL and Lycos announced results for the top searches at their portals today. And the most searched items of 2006 were.... Paris Hilton and Poker . Tech searches barely contributed, with iPod being the most Read More...
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Microsoft reported yesterday that it was evaluating an as of yet unpatched, "zero day" Word vulnerability . This is the third Word vulnerability reported in the past nine days. Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and Word Viewer 2003 are all affected by the bug, which Read More...
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The Gartner Group predicts that Windows Vista will be the last major "monolithic" Windows release . Read More...
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Little is known about Rock Phish , expect that the individual or gang is suspected to be the most prominent phishing operation in the world. The group (person???) uses sophisticated social engineering schemes to target US and European finacial institutions Read More...
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Disgruntled former USB Paine Webber Employee Roger Duronio was sentenced to eight years in prison for planting a Logic Bomb on the company's network. The hacker bought $23,000 of put options before the logic bomb began deleting files in the hope that Read More...
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The personal data of 800,000 current and former UCLA students, faculty and staff has been compromised by hackers , according to AP reports on Tuesday. Most readers have probably already seen the headline and story, but the incident is worth further discussion Read More...
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Boeing reported this morning that a laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of 382,000 workers and retirees was stolen. Boeing has had two previously reported incidences of stolen laptops with sensitive employee information. In 2005, a Read More...
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