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by Kevin Fogarty

Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld.

U.N. taxes, censorship would destroy Internet, critics warn

Posted Jun 08, 2012 - 06:15 pm

Proposals from China, Dubai and international telecommunications unions suggest regulating the Internet by allowing governments to monitor activity within their own nets and impost taxes on companies providing data that flows internationally across the web.
Generate and keep really secure passwords for free

Posted Jun 08, 2012 - 05:27 pm

The best way to keep from allowing a data breach at LinkedIn or another breached site from being a disaster for you is to use a different password at each. Secure passwords are impossible to remember, however, so storing them in a free password vault is the only solution.
Dull-looking email from printer hides sophisticated malware

Posted Jun 08, 2012 - 01:33 pm

The more interesting a phishing email is the more end users will think about them and the more likely they are to become suspicious. A burst of spam from Russian malware servers disguises itself as the automated delivery of a scan, from a printer, not a person.
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- Security, botnet, bugat trojan
How many seconds would it take to break your password?

Posted Jun 07, 2012 - 08:00 pm

Want to know how strong your password is? Count the number of characters and the type and calculate it yourself. Or check this list and see how big a difference between a few billion possible combinations a few sextillion possibilities really is.
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- Security, grc.com, hashing
LinkedIn password cracker posted 8 million logins as cry for help

Posted Jun 07, 2012 - 12:19 pm

We've finally found a reason beyond simple profit that hackers post the private information (including logins) of consumers they don't know: to get help cracking the encryption on the passwords they've already stolen.
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- Security, data breach, dwdm
FBI, RIAA boost content pirates with moves intended to punish them

Posted Jun 07, 2012 - 11:49 am

Copyright enforcers keep contradicting themselves and each other with arguments defending their own behavior or sanctions that could actually benefit those they hope to punish. Foggy rules on what 'theft' is complicate things, but the real culprit is failure to substantiate.
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- Security, blowback, cary sherman
Change your LinkedIn password right now

Posted Jun 06, 2012 - 12:11 pm

Login data for as many as 6.5 million LinkedIn users has been posted on a Russian hacker site. LinkedIn hasn't confirmed the breach, but Tweets confirm many real passwords are on the list. Change your password. Get a password vault. Use different passwords for important sites.
Facebook crushes hopes of critics

Posted Jun 05, 2012 - 04:46 pm

After weeks of stone-throwing over the questionable management, intentions, privacy violations and ultimate ickiness of Facebook, critics continue to work their arms, using ammo that keeps getting more and more insubstantial.
Cybercrime isn't where or who you think it is

Posted Jun 05, 2012 - 02:40 pm

The US and China are the most frequent victims of cybercrime, but also house the most frequent perpetrators as well. Yes, there's lots of cybercrime in Eastern Europe, and even a cybercrime-to-cybercrime market in Russia. But the story doesn't stop there.
'Legitimate' cyberwar to make culture wars uglier

Posted Jun 01, 2012 - 09:28 pm

The admission that the US was behind cyberattacks on Iran legitimizes cyberwar for enemies of the US as well as its friends. More seriously, it makes an arsenal of semi-violent responses available to culture warriors who aren't satisfied with simply shouting at those who disagree.

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