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• Our Vendors Must Work Harder to Protect Us

    We recently had a demonstration -- as though we needed one -- of how sophisticated blended Web attacks are, and how we ourselves often create or exacerbate online security problems. An exploit recently came to light that none -- th...

• UN's WIPO Comes Up Short

    The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), based in Geneva, Switzerland, a specialized agency of the United Nations with responsibility for international intellectual property (IP), released a report this week citing ...

• BBC Tries Its Hand at the Botnet Biz

    After checking with its lawyers, the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) recently proceeded to buy control of a small-scale botnet (22,000 computers) through chat rooms and forums. From there, the network's computer and Internet news p...

• Here's Hands-On Help With Online Security Testing

    Keeping networks and computers secure is everyone’s concern. So here is help for anyone interested in understanding the general vulnerabilities every computer user faces daily on the Internet. For readers of Internet Evolutio...

• Getting Around the Great Cyber Wall of China

    If you were an average Internet surfer in China, your choice of sites to visit would be a lot less eclectic than an average Westerner’s variety. This is due to the Chinese government implementing the Great Firewall of China, t...

• Infighting Breaks Out Among Cyber Criminals

    Civil war is underway in Russia, or at least among the Russian cyber criminal fraternity, which is engaged in botnet skirmishes that began a couple months ago. Dancho Danchev has been chronicling this internecine battle, and what's...

• Cyber Criminals Wage Civil War?

     Just occasionally on the cybercrime front some of the observations and research can herald good news or at least raise a wry smile. It would appear if we adjoin a few recent news items together, with some supplementary fres...

• Cybercrime Targets Money Transfers

    The money transfer industry, particularly as it pertains to immigrants living in the United States, has become an easy target for cybercriminals. According to the U.S. Immigration Service, immigrants living in the U.S. send more...