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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide I hope everyone had a happy holiday break- whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, none of the above or all of the above. As we look to the new year starting this Thursday I wonder what sort of resolutions everyone will make and how many of those will make it past February. I will post a short article with some security resolutions you can consider. This week there are links to information about a new virus that plays on fears of terrorist attack, a short blurb about Romania's attempts to stop cybercrime and a short article about the RIAA driving users to start using encryption. Have a Safe and Happy New Year!! | ||||
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| New Virus Plays on Fears of Terrorist Threat A new virus is circulating in Malaysia. The subject line and message lead the recipient to believe that the email contains vital information about upcoming terrorist attacks. Ostensibly the message is from one of the terrorists who is leaking the information to prevent more deaths than are necessary. The URL that the email directs recipients to...Read More |
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| Romania Attempts to Stop Rise In Cybercrime Recently Romania has been identified as a crux of computer cybercrime. As with Russia, they have many talented programmers who are affected by the poor economies. Given nothing better to do with their skills and in desperate need of money they have turned to hacking and extortion. The Romanian government is taking steps to change that and shed the title of cybercrime hotbed. In the BBCNews.com article by Clark Boyd it states "The FBI has praised Romanian authorities...Read More |
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| Encryption Use Rises In Response to RIAA Persecution The RIAA and MPAA have been on the warpath against the users of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks- aggressively tracking and prosecuting those found to be trafficking illegal copies of songs or movies. One of the reactions in response to this has been...Read More |
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