Security Fix: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005
The Seattle Shuffle
I'm blogging from beautiful Seattle, having just spent the day touring the facilities of adware maker 180Solutions Inc. and interviewing at least five of their top executives for a story I'm working on for the Washington Post Magazine. Fall is...
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October 21, 2005; 7:00 AM ET |
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Why You Need to Guard Your Computer
Occasionally, I'll hear from readers who are sick of how difficult and complex it is to keep a PC safe on the Internet but who simultaneously can't give up going online. So they adopt a certain fatalism, saying, in effect,...
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October 20, 2005; 5:45 PM ET |
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Help Me Test a Spyware Solution
In my day job (i.e., when I'm not filling in on this blog for Brian Krebs), I write the Help File how-to column in Sunday's Business section. Spyware is a perennial topic in that space, and by far the worst...
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October 20, 2005; 1:49 PM ET |
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Longer Logins at Online Banks?
Last week, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council issued a report recommending that banks tighten up their online-login procedures. The council's guidance says "single-factor authentication" -- where you only need to provide one piece of data, such as a PIN...
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October 19, 2005; 1:23 PM ET |
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Microsoft's Auto-Update Too Slow?
Yesterday I woke up to find my computer presenting me with the Windows login screen. I know that Microsoft's auto-update feature -- which is enabled on my main home machine -- after a period of time automatically restarts your...
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October 18, 2005; 2:15 PM ET |
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Attack of the Splogs
Spam watchers have seen a huge spike over the past couple of weeks in the number of new "splogs," or fake blogs created by junk e-mail artists for the sole purpose of increasing the search engine rankings of the Web...
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October 18, 2005; 10:11 AM ET |
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Extreme File Sharing
Spent a few hours over the weekend poking around Limewire, an online peer-to-peer file-sharing network where an estimated 2 million users share and swap MP3 files, movies, software titles and just about anything and everything else made up of ones...
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October 17, 2005; 3:40 PM ET |
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