How about answering email messages when you are not online? Easy, right? But, if you are using a webmail account that used to be a problem; so was reading unopened messages or older messages in your inbox. Well, not anymore, Gmail Goes Offline! The AIRC annual threat report with the 2009 predictions could not have [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
What’s been on people’s minds lately?
As we have been predicting (and following during 2008), the criminal’s mind is very much attuned to public mind. The current issues that everyone (well, at least a lot of us) has been dealing with are the current economical situation, and what president Obama is going to do about it. Without fail, eCriminals have been [...]
Supreme court, freedom of speech and internet filtering
It was bound to happen. It didn’t work in Third World countries, attempts to do it in Western civilization failed one by one, and now it is proven again that you can’t really prohibit people by law from viewing certain content on the internet. What I’m talking about is this: The Supreme Court rejected child [...]
Conficker continues its rounds. Hits 9 million mark
It is funny how security works, isn’t it? When you think you got rid of the old-school (aka “stupid”) threats, reality hits you right back. Confiker/Downadup is a simple worm; it exploits a Microsoft Windows vulnerability, that can only be utilized over a local network as it uses the SMB protocol, and uses an initial [...]
Social networking strikes again
A lot of write-ups have been covering this, so here are a few from InformationWeek, Dancho, SCMagazine and McAfee. Besides saying the ever satisfying “told you so”, nothing much to add here. More bogus profiles enticing users to connect to them, look at the content, and catch the same old nastiness – only packaged in [...]