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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition Avast Free AntiVirus Panda Cloud AntiVirus Free Microsoft Security Essentials AntiVirus Clam AV for Windows Anti Malware Toolkit TheStubware Ad-Aware Free Internet Security SUPERAntiSpyware NoVirusThanks Malware Remover ThreatFire Free SpyDll Remover Comodo Firewall Free McAfee Site Advisor Secunia Personal Software Inspector Mail Washer Free Rubotted Bot [...] - DSS Site Hacked
GRRRRR! The Desktop Security Software site was hacked on 4th October 2010 at 07:53. Not completely sure how yet – suspect some sort of WordPress hack attack. php entries were added to re-direct to a rogue site heavy with malware that created pop-up’s alleging virus’s on the machine in use. And no doubt a massive [...] - UFOs Real or Not?
Real UFOs? Probably Not - - Hackers in the Movies … Not!
- Don’t download pirated software! Ever!
This video from panda labs show how easy it is for the bad guys to tag malware or a virus on to legitimate (but cracked/pirated) software that is then often released on P2P networks for download. How cyber criminals infect victims via P2P with pirated software from Panda Security on Vimeo.
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| - Friday Squid Blogging: Clothing that Keeps an Exercise Journal
It's called Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
- The Problems of Too Much Information Sharing
Funny. Fake, but funny. Edited to add (2/3): The rest of the story....
- VeriSign Hacked, Successfully and Repeatedly, in 2010
Reuters discovered the information: The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors. It was the most striking disclosure to emerge in a review by Reuters of more than 2,000 documents mentioning breach risks since the SEC guidance was published. The company, unsurprisingly,...
- Prisons in the U.S.
Really good article on the huge incarceration rate in the U.S., its causes, its effects, and its value: Over all, there are now more people under "correctional supervision" in America -- more than six million -- than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second...
- The Idaho Loophole
Brian C. Kalt (2005), "The Perfect Crime," Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2. Abstract: This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected constitutional provision: the Sixth Amendment's Vicinage Clause. Although lesser criminal...
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