Facebook Scrambles to Squash Worm
Autor admin | 09.08.2008 | Category SEO
Ah the thrills and spills of Web 2.0. Facebook reported this week it had blocked links to malicious Web sites that affected a small percentage (the company said .002 percent) of its users. The perpetrators left messages on the posting area or “walls” of Facebook users, urging visitors to view a video purported to be hosted by Google or YouTube.
“We’ve identified and blocked the ability to link to the malicious websites from anywhere on Facebook” Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, said in a blog post.
Ironically, Kelly noted his team had to work into the night to install a fix for the worm (define) before leaving for the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas.
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IBM Unveils Proactive E-Discovery Solution
Autor admin | 09.08.2008 | Category SEO
IBM has unveiled eDiscovery Manager, a software product that lets enterprises manage electronically stored information so that they can retrieve it easily when a legal challenge requires e-discovery. The term e-discovery stands for ‘electronic discovery’ and refers to discovery in civil litigation dealing with information in electronic form.
Enterprises are being forced to adopt e-discovery solutions because of amendments in December to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) (define) that require companies to preserve and produce electronically stored information when facing litigation. FRCP is the U.S. federal district court procedures for civil suits.
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Malware How-to’s Part of Computer Science Class
Autor admin | 09.08.2008 | Category SEO
It’s not easy to reach Sonoma State University Professor George Ledin these days. Thanks to a Newsweek article profiling his computer science classes with an emphasis on the creation of malware like Trojan horses and keyloggers, a lot of people want to talk to him. And a lot of people are mad at him.
Despite the predictable indignation and outrage by the antivirus vendors, whose software Ledin is showing future graduates how to circumvent, Ledin insists he is not creating future Slammer and Sasser authors out in the woods of northern California, just south of the city of Santa Rosa.
“The virus writers don’t need me, they are not going to take my course,” he told InternetNews.com.
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