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As covered by Seattle Times technology reporter Benjamin J. Romano in his coverage of Law Enforcement Technology 2008 conference Monday at Microsoft, Brad Smith outlined the COFEE, a small USB key fob that can be used by crime investigators. (Holy CSI,
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So, the controversy is nothing new, and nearly as old as the as Apple 1984 commercial . I've posted previously at Mac and PC Security and noted that -- no matter what connected platform you use -- there's no immunity from security vulnerabilities . And
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A quick note before lunch... per PCMAG today... there are a number of phony electronic cards being circulated this Valentine's day... Sunbelt Software is reporting a virulent and convincing fake greeting card site and associated malware . Like most malware
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It's a busy time if year for shopping, traveling, spoofing and hacking. Do you know where your credit card number is right now? And I trust that your ATM card is safely tucked away (PIN secure) and hasn't been duplicated by an unsavory individual intent
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That e-mail from the IRS? It’s not from the IRS... so says local reporter Herb Weisbaum, an MSNBC contributor, on MSNBC (and the IRS warns taxpayers of the scams in a press release here ).... "The Internal Revenue Service is trying to be more customer-friendly,
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In his post on Not-So-Friendly Greeting Cards , Brian Krebs of the Washington Post calls out the rise of fake online greeting cards that can install keystroke loggers on to your computer, rather than delivering what you thought to be an innocent e-card
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Joe Wilcox writes on Microsoft Watch today about the the MPack Trojan , which is impacting customers, primarily in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Japan. "This Trojan is particularly insidious, because what people might consider to be safe Websites can infect
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In the mailbag this morning was this eweek article on how Vista's User Account Control (UAC) Will Reform Developers , where a Gartner analyst says that developers should ship software apps that (in some cases) don't require administrator rights. Speaking
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Lisa Vaas of eWeek has an article today on how nearly 500 people took the bait to 'Click Here to Get Infected.' It was as simple as setting up an innocent looking domain name (drive-by-download.info), one with an '.info' suffix that is reportedly popular
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As I noted yesterday in my blog , there is a new patch that addresses the animated cursor vulnerability as noted in Security Bulletin MS07-017 . This patch is prevents remote code execution (so an attacker can not take over your PC remotely) delivered
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What's all this talk about animated cursors and exploits on Windows? Some times, email attachments and web sites aren't what they appear to be on face value. You might've seen a security announcement or press coverage on a new security patch that addresses
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Of interest is this item on Lifehacker.com, just in time for the holidays, "Geek to Live: A meaty Thanksgiving download." In a 17MB download, it promises that they will "save you the trouble of chasing down half a dozen PC fix-it tools in the midst of
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Thsi week in Patrick Marshall's Q&A column on technology, there are two items that struck home for me: Reinstalling Windows to recover lost files: The first was Mr. Marchall's advice on "reinstalling Windows may help retrieve photos." A reader asked
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Last year, Microsoft teamed up with the FTC in the “Don’t Get Tricked on Halloween” campaign to crack down on illegal methods used by spammers to distribute unsolicited e-mail. As October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month , only fitting that
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From the news: "Parents everywhere are concerned with children's access to inappropriate media content. Microsoft, along with our friends at Best Buy and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, is leading an education campaign to provide parents with tools
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