Experts in law, technology and policy recently gathered to discuss the state of Internet spyware and what they can do about it.
Spyware, which is often installed on people’s computer without their knowledge, gathers the user’s information for anything from advertising to identity theft.
Industry looks for spyware solutions
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Online Gangs Targeting British Consumers
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Thousands of international criminals working over the internet in ""virtual gangs" are stealing millions of pounds from consumers and businesses in Britain, a senior computer security expert said on Tuesday.
"It’s the first time ever that organised crime can attack people in their own homes sitting at their computer systems," said Tony Neate, head of E-crime [...]
People are blind to Spyware
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The vast majority of people are blind to spyware, adware and other unwanted software according to a survey sponsored by security software firm, McAfee.
Alarmingly, in a survey of more than 14,000 Internet users, 97 per cent of them were found to be ‘one click away’ from infecting their PCs with unwanted or malicious software.
Only three [...]
Trojan Demands Ransom from Victims
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A new trojan is making its rounds on the Internet, freezing up victims’ computers and then demanding a ransom be paid through Western Union. Called "ransomware," the viruses have been around in Russia for several months, but the first English variants appeared in March.
Sophos discovered the trojan and has named it "Troj/Ransom-A." According to the [...]
Cleaning up a bad email reputation
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About a year ago, Publishers Clearing House set out to make sure its e-mail reputation was squeaky-clean.
The company, known for its sweepstakes and magazine subscription promos, stepped up its efforts to be a good e-mail citizen, and to make sure it didn’t send out unwanted messages. It developed its own tools. It hired outside consultants. [...]
“CSI” for the Enterprise?
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Michael Osborne has been getting a lot of vendor calls lately pitching a new breed of products, typically called electronic data discovery (EDD) tools. These tools promise to investigate historical data to uncover security breaches, compliance failures and plain old errors in transactions across various enterprise systems, from network administration to accounting. Driven by compliance [...]
Viruses strike at Infosec networks
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IT security companies exhibiting at this year’s Infosec show in London have been slammed for not practising what they preach, following the discovery that exhibition stands are hosting unsecured wireless networks and viruses aplenty.
Security scanners set up by McAfee detected wireless networks that are either lacking any encryption or are using default password settings.
Security pros give VoIP the brush-off
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Delegates at Infosec gave a resounding dismissal to a motion supporting VoIP deployment. The debate, “this house believes that the business advantages of VoIP outweigh the security concerns” ended in a fairly unanimous thumbs down, which implied security professionals don’t think the technology is ready for big money corporate rollouts.
The proposers of the motion, a [...]
Remediation Software Automatically Detects Malware
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To help ISPs reduce the cost of dealing with customers whose computers become infected with malware, Simplicita unveiled software that automatically detects and quarantines infected computers. According to Frank Bergen, CEO of Simplicita, 180,000 computers are infected with malware daily, and ISPs are addressing only a small number of them.
SPIKE and BURP for real world computer security usage (Part 1)
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The world of computer security is a constantly evolving one. There is a continuous stream of exploits being found in one program or another. It is pretty much impossible to be fluent in all aspects of computer network security. Due to the nature of computer security and its many, many aspects one should almost choose [...]