via Tampa Bay Online (tbo.com)
By VALERIE KALFRIN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: November 11, 2008
TAMPA - Frustrated by months of Internet problems, Ellen Gaynor said she was so relieved to get her home wireless service working again that she didn’t secure it.
That – and a small white stripe painted in the street outside Gaynor’s house [...]
Original Post: F-Secure Weblog - http://tinyurl.com/4ss9c4
This really isn’t news (in fact the post referenced above is almost a month old), though the issue continues to plague Facebook. I just ran across a couple of incidents today, so I figured I’d post some of F-Secure’s findings as well as my own.
F-Secure has posted some on-going research [...]
Feature Brief: New features in the Riverbed® Optimization System (RiOS™) v5.5
With RiOS 5.5, riverbed enables even faster performance for enterprise business applications and enhances manageability to deliver the marketleading WDS solution. through its comprehensive approach, riverbed accelerates access to information to improve processes and make businesses more agile. With more application protocol support, improved flexibility, [...]
This was a great week. We launched our 2009 consumer security software products with industry leading features and technology. The products were designed and built as a response to what customers told us they wanted – to be protected against today’s sophisticated threats without being disturbed or prevented from using their computers.
The most important new [...]
BBC News recently reported that the world’s first robust network based on Quantum cryptography has gone live in Vienna. Comprising 7 locations and 200km of optical fiber, and hosted by Siemens, the network has the capability to re-route connections in the event of link failure, and handle eavesdropping attacks.
Though it sounds a little Star Trek, Quantum [...]
I am Tracy Mooney, McAfee’s Chief Cyber Security Mom, and I would like to share some recent statistics with you that I think all parents need to know about.
• 83% of mothers polled are confident they know what their children are doing online, but 70% of kids are concealing their online activity
• 56% of kids of have [...]
Just recently, McAfee completed IPv6 compliance testing at the United States Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). The JITC is a US Department of Defense laboratory chartered to test Information Technologies and Information Assurance products to ensure operational effectiveness and suitability for the Defense Information Systems Agency and other DOD organizations.
McAfee specifically tested the I-2700 and [...]
Recently it was reported that the UK MoD (Ministry of Defense) lost track of three USB backup drives containing the personal details of “potentially all current and ex-RAF personnel and dependents”.
Around 50,000 people’s details were lost reports Chris Mellor. The drives were lost despite being kept secure in a locked cupboard in a room protected [...]
If things aren’t bad enough, with banks and other financial institutions going belly-up and being sold off, cybercriminals have figured out that it’s a great time to go phishing. The Federal Trade Commission issued a “Consumer Alert” in the past few days. Here’s the gist of it:
The online wise-guys have calculated this is a good [...]
We all know that one of the biggest problems with the Internet and email today is spam - unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages.
My colleagues and I have come to the conclusion that we are getting a lot of junk email forwarded to us by our love ones and friends. It seems everyone has at [...]
