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Putting A 'Korset' On The Spread Of Computer Viruses: Invention Stays One Step
Ahead Of Anti-virus Software
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| But Prof. Avishai Wool and his graduate student Ohad Ben-Cohen of Tel Aviv
| University’s Faculty of Engineering are taking a different approach. They
| recently unveiled a unique new program called the “Korset” to stop [Windows]
| malware on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email
| servers worldwide.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080909111037.htm
Microsoft pays the likes of IDC to produce bogus statistics and pretend
GNU/Linux had lower market share.
Windows/zombie mentality:
Cybersecurity Best Practice: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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| In government circles, the term information assurance is used often. We’ve
| also heard terms like trustworthy computing, reliable systems, and others.
| For these to be successful, they must all have at their core a common
| principle of guilty until proven innocent. I’ll explain with a few examples
| as well as counter-examples.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3769946/Cybersecurity+Best+Practice
+Guilty+Until+Proven+Innocent.ht
http://tinyurl.com/6e7x6x
The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame
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| Rules are made to be broken the same way networks are made to be hacked into.
| These are nine of the most infamous criminal hackers to ever see the inside
| of a jail cell.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329604,00.asp
Recent:
What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
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| Spam volumes have doubled, and the Srizbi botnet alone was seen to be capable
| of pumping out an astonishing 7.8 billion messages an hour. That is probably
| worth repeating: 7.8 BILLION spams every single hour!
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19992/1054/
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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