It’s no secret that people rarely read privacy policies or assume that if there is a privacy policy, it means their data is safe. However, the latest bit of research points out that privacy policy or not, people have no clue if a site is going to spam them if they give it their email info. Perhaps the reason is that people just don’t care any more.
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A steady stream of minor security incidents at Google can hurt them in the long run. Running applications for businesses is serious stuff, and Google needs to be diligent about security. Another minor incident came up this evening - a Google employee intended to post on her personal blog and wrote on the official Google blog covering Blogger instea
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A nice selection of recent academic papers on security research topics. Titles include:
“Robust Reactions to Potential Day-Zero Worms through Cooperation and Validation”
“Network-Level Polymorphic Shellcode Detection Using Emulation”
“An Active Splitter Architecture for Intrusion Detection and Prevention”
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After years of clinging to traditional business models, media companies have finally started embracing ad-supported Internet distribution in a big way. Yesterday’s announcement that several major music labels made nice with YouTube may turn out to be a watershed moment for the industry
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Sneakily this was an image rather than a Windows dialogue box so clicking anywhere on it, even the “cancel” button, got the download going. The download installed automatically and kicked off a tsunami of background downloading. The software was so sneaky that it tried to stop this traffic being seen by injecting it into the IE processes.
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The anti-spam group Spamhaus Project warned more junk e-mail could be on the way as it prepares to lose its domain name thanks to a company it has accused of sending spam.
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Despite claims by one of the researchers involved that the whole thing was a joke , security experts at Mozilla Corp. are continuing to investigate whether there is indeed a remotely-exploitable flaw in the Firefox browser.
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Story Title says it all…
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Want proof? Just visit any of a dozen or so thriving cybercrime forums, websites that mirror the services of Amazon.com and the efficiencies of eBay. Criminal buyers and sellers convene at these virtual emporiums to wheel and deal in all things related to cyberattacks — and in the fruit of cyberintrusions: pilfered credit and debit card numbers…
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