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• Traitorware: Gadgets That Betray Your Privacy

  The many gadgets and devices that we use in our everyday lives are likely to be revealing more about us than we would care to freely divulge. Independent research carried out last year gives us a glimpse into the extent of the information that can be gat...

• A Christmas Carol of Cyber-Crime

  'Twas the night before Christmas. Scrooge and the team had set the botnet up for this campaign over the last few weeks. Over 10,000 bots were set on the botnet, enough to overpower anyone and confuse any security team. This was matched with 25 Facebook us...

• An Update on DDoS

  Denial-of-service attacks have been around for a long time, but due to Wikileaks they are now a hot daily news topic worth reviewing. A DoS (denial-of-service) or DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is simply an endeavor by hackers to make a comp...

• Nozzle to Zozzle: Microsoft's Expanding Security Arsenal

  Nozzle and Zozzle make a great-sounding duo. Little publicized and not yet launched, these two products mark something akin to a sea change in Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s approach to security and could add a vital line of defense against most JavaS...

• Wikileaks Cablegate: Lessons in Security & Data Disclosure

  Love or hate Wikileaks: Unless you are on the moon, in China, or in a couple of other countries that are blocking such Web viewing, you will know that its “Cablegate” channel has certainly grabbed the world’s headlines. This is complemented by a del...

• Sextortion Advances in Cyber-Space

  Who’s watching your child on her or his PC Webcam -- just friends? Don't be too sure. Age-old crimes take on a new twist in the cyber-world of today. Not least of these is “sextortion,” where in a recent high-profile case, the FBI uncovered 200 vic...

• BlackHat SEO Poisons the Web

  Search engine optimization (SEO) is a big money-earner for cybercriminals. They are getting better at it, refining their techniques via blending attacks to trick Internet users onto malware-ridden or personal ID-harvesting Websites. SEO forms the basis o...

• How to Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising – Sort Of

  Behavioral advertising, love it or hate it, is here to stay. The virtual economy depends on it -- or so the advertisers would have us believe. And with a record-breaking $12 billion from recent survey and a report on Mashable. It is fair to say that a ma...