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F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the rise
Cybercrooks are breaking down large botnets into smaller groups as they seek to increase their revenue, the security firm says.

Clear Home Surveillance Video Leads To Burglary Arrests
WFTV - The family burglarized told Eyewitness News they are pleased by the quick arrest of the other suspects and how well their computer surveillance system worked. A quick search on the Internet brought them to WiLife.com , where they purchased the system

Former TSA Screener Gets Probation
WDSU - The woman left it behind on her way to her flight gate, but she returned to the security checkpoint and was told by screeners that no one had seen the computer. Surveillance video showed Carmen walking with a bin, which had the laptop inside. He

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Business Travel Executive - Some tactics used at the Olympics in Athens will be repeated, such as using a computer surveillance network (with thousands of hidden cameras and microphones) that is able to analyze multiple languages. Will the Chinese government s efforts at

African American Ex-Computer Hacker Designs Service To Fake Caller ID
BlackNews.com - Evans has also written a number of books, been featured on History Channel’s Modern Marvels, where he demonstrated the capabilities of computer surveillance and the destruction

New Life, New Rules
Harvard Crimson - Church believes the key to ensuring safe research practice will be the development of advanced computer surveillance software to be used in laboratories internationally. Without this oversight it could become too easy for anyone to order the

Infocus: Windows Anti-Debug Reference
Windows Anti-Debug Reference

‘Storm worm’ exploits YouTube
Spammers may have changed tactics, targeting a familiar Web site rather than PCs for the purpose of spreading the trojan.

Lawmakers Criticize FEMA’s Handling of Hazards Posed by Trailers
Washington Post - Citing an employee monitoring study by the Department of Health and Human Services , FEMA told its workers not to enter any travel trailers sitting unused under sunlight. CBS News first reported the FEMA workplace policy on Wednesday. Knocke said

Netintelligence awarded CSIA Claims Tested Mark
Security Park - Ni Enterprise Manager enables network managers to monitor business IT systems in real time from anywhere in the world, with features including usage restrictions and employee monitoring. It also provides robust firewall and virus defences. Phil Worms

So I Married a Spyware Installer
InternetNews.com - Employee monitoring is somewhat commonplace, although it’s usually restricted to tracking employee Web activity, not actually putting a key logger on their computers. But security specialists say companies do have more latitude to protect themselves

News: Task force aims to improve U.S. cybersecurity
Task force aims to improve U.S. cybersecurity

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Daily Times - AVG Anti-Spyware is a spyware and malware scanner that protects you against against spyware, adware, trojans, dialer, keylogger, worms and other potential threats. It offers real-time monitoring and scheduled scans as well as additional security

Security Suite Smackdown, Part I
PC Magazine - Add in firewalls, content filtering, parental controls and keylogger detection, and you’ve got a online suit of armor that’s theoretically proof against any and all threats. And the armor has done a reasonably good job, by and large. However (to

So You Think You’re Safe?
PC Magazine - Or perhaps you unwittingly visited a malicious Web site that did a drive-by keylogger install. To assist in your fight against these and other threats that can slip past your primary line of defense, we’ve got three defensive backups. SiteAdvisor can

UBC tracked his ‘theft of time’
The Province - A lot of companies use keyloggers to monitor their employees. I even know that our company uses PC ACME:) So, what is this all about? In case it wasn’t warned that he had a keylogger on his machine he could have guessed I just can’t understand

Protect against external threats (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In a previous column, I revealed how the vast majority of computer security threats facing your environment live on the client side and require end-user involvement. Users have to be socially engineered to click an item on their desktop (an e-mail, a file attachment, a URL, or an application) that they should not have. This is not to say that truly remote exploits aren’t a threat. They are.

Samy worm creator hopes to be online again (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.

Mark Rasch: Aye, Robot, or Can Computers Contract?
Aye, Robot, or Can Computers Contract?

Clear Home Surveillance Video Leads To Burglary Arrests
WFTV - The family burglarized told Eyewitness News they are pleased by the quick arrest of the other suspects and how well their computer surveillance system worked. A quick search on the Internet brought them to WiLife.com , where they purchased the system

Former TSA Screener Gets Probation
WDSU - The woman left it behind on her way to her flight gate, but she returned to the security checkpoint and was told by screeners that no one had seen the computer. Surveillance video showed Carmen walking with a bin, which had the laptop inside. He

New Life, New Rules
Harvard Crimson - Church believes the key to ensuring safe research practice will be the development of advanced computer surveillance software to be used in laboratories internationally. Without this oversight it could become too easy for anyone to order the

KGB to keep an eye on employees
TechWorld - “Employees perform better under constant supervision. A real-time computer surveillance system is a perfect manager’s tool to monitor employees and provide instant feedback,” said Refog Software, which is based in Russia. The company said that its

African American Ex-Computer Hacker Designs Service To Fake Caller ID
BlackNews.com - Evans has also written a number of books, been featured on History Channel’s Modern Marvels, where he demonstrated the capabilities of computer surveillance and the destruction

West is taking fight against terrorism online
International Herald Tribune - In Germany, the proposed surveillance is upsetting people - thousands participated in a demonstration last month in Berlin to protest computer surveillance and data retention. Data storage is an issue because the government is seeking broad powers to

McAfee releases new versions of its Internet Security Suite, Total
eWeek - It turns out all iPhone applications run as root and any application vulnerability means winner takes all. Company employees use a number of portable storage devices that can lead to data leakages and malware problems. With SecureWave’s Device

Dell creates useful product for gaming
The Inquirer - Backside features DVI-I with HDCP malware support, D-SUB (Analogue VGA), Component, S-VHS and Composite. Sadly, HDMI is not present, but since this monitor does not come with speakers, we cannot put this as a minus. However, there is one brilliant

Online Banking Fraud and Internet Security
Yahoo Finance - Panda Security for Internet Transactions: a service to secure online transactions. Now banks, pay-platforms and other businesses that operate online can ensure their clients are not infected with malware and prevent fraudulent transactions GLENDALE

Panda to Update, Reposition TruPrevent Security Software
eWeek - Today, the product is sold as an add-on to traditional anti-virus products from Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. and others. But with the new “genetic” scanning and buffer-overflow capabilities, Panda hopes to create a new category of malware-detection

CA Suite Marshals Malware Forces
eWeek - Seventeen months after announcing the purchase of PestPatrol anti-spyware technology, CA is the first anti-virus company to meld its own technology with an acquired anti-spyware solution. Although the resulting eTrust ITM r8 solution is relatively