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“ One major criticism of open networks is that they seem to have no way of protecting the personal information distributed on the web or limiting access to resources. Few people are willing to make all their personal information public, source...

“Apple has always adopted a smug attitude towards security. For many years, its major defence against malicious software was the fact that Windows was both exponentially more popular and leaked like a sieve. Enough operating system fundamentals were different that source...

“Fractional homeownership works the same way as having a business partner or an investor. The homebuyer now does not have to pay for the heavy full amount of his dream house while keeping the material benefits of homeownership, meaning smaller source...

“ As I type this, it’s “Cyber Monday,” and I’m willing to bet that many of you are spending at least a bit of your time and money doing some shopping on the Web. Sure beats the endless mall mobs, source...

“In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of source...

“WASHINGTON—Senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President George W. Bush last week on a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated in Russia, posing unusual concern among commanders and potential implications source...

“It contains the Sleuth kit & Autopsy frontend, the afflib “Advanced Forensic Format” tools, dd rescue, foremost, hex dump, ophcrack - a windows password recovery tool, qtparted, testdisk, vinetto (examine Thumbs.db files), readpst (examine MS-Outlook pst files), kismet, wireshart, et source...

“ That's the word from the Consumer Reports National Research Center, which polled 2,000 adults in late October. The survey also found 29 percent of the sample thought the Bush administration had gone too far in bailing out the financial source...

“One of Apple’s better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses (malware) but Macs are automatically protected.  As PC “ah-choos” his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly source...

“ src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it "lis source...

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“This type of tools are very easy to use, they have an interface in which you can select the functions of the malware that is going to be created. In the following image you can see the control panel of the Constructor/BitTera which source...

“Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media. Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75\% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Details source...

“If you've recently switched from Windows to the Linux distribution Ubuntu, you've probably experienced a decrease in spyware -- and malware in general -- on your system. But although Ubuntu is billed as the ultra-secure solution, you should know that source...

“ "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box," he said. "However, since no system can be 100 percent immune from every threat, running antivirus software may source...