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Computing
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 29 January 2010 16:11 |
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Technology has been chewing-on businesses and governments alike over the past month or so.
Google, recently bitten by a zero-day exploit in China, has been very vocal about this exploit and is threatening to pull out of China. This, in turn, has the U.S. government requesting a response from China on cyber security. Can't blame the U.S. government for making a case, as IP's from China have been traced as the source of several attacks over the past year or so. Needless-to-say, China is not happy about the bad press. In fact, they've been quite vocal in their denials and have basically told the U.S. "Don't mess with our business".
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Computing
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Written by Rick
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 12:59 |
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Having a propular product can mean boon or bust for a software company. According to security firm McAfee (see report), Adobe will become the top target for hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsof Office products.
Hackers tend to attack the most popular products to achieve maximum impact. That usually makes Microsoft the primary target for exploit. But, Microsoft's dominance in some areas is dwindling. As other products reach levels that compare or surpass Microsoft's, they become exploit tools for hackers.
Adobe has acknowledged their products have seen an increase in attacks and have begun to respond by decreasing report-to-patch times. The products primarily used for exploits include Flash and Adobe Reader.
Adobe is not alone, other products experienced an increase in hacker exploit activity in 2009. Namely, Firefox and Apple's Quicktime.
2010 looks like it will be a busy year for anti-virus/security firms. A good New Year's Resolution would be to purchase good quality anti-virus/anti-spam/anti-malware tool (or tools) and schedule daily updates of your definition file(s). It may not be a "total" answer, but it might reduce a "bite" to a "nibble".
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Internet
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Written by Rick
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:00 |
While the inane spats of YouTube commencers may not be representative, the internet has certainly sharpened the tone of debate. The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have "agendas".
Whether or not you agree with the above comment isn't the point. It's how we express ourselves while on the Internet that displays our humanity, or rather our in-humanity. We see this well displayed in recent commercials targeted at our children. Ya know the cyber-bullying commercials. "If you wouldn't say it in person...". I think we can all agree that if we have commercials on this topic, a problem must exist.
10 years ago, when the Internet was still young, many of us joked that WWW didn't stand for "World-Wide Web", it stood for "Wild, Wild West". Anonymity seems to bring-out the worst in people. Back then, being "flamed" by another user was insulting, but common. The fear of reprisal was non-existent. Many people "shot from the hip".
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