Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluleyis a British security blogger and the author of grahamcluley.com; a daily blog on the latest computer security news, opinion, and advice...
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Every law-abiding citizen wants to help the police with their enquiries, and some will panic that they might be being falsely accused of visiting illegal websites and want to click on the unsolicited e-mail attachment.
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Every month Microsoft releases security patches for its software - and it's often a race against time for companies to roll these patches out across their business before a hacker takes advantage of the vulnerability. A security hole which allows hackers with malicious intentions to run code on Windows or Apple Mac computers is very serious, and all affected users should ensure they have defended their systems.
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This one's not the smartest tool in the box. We've passed the details on and the police are looking into this one.
There have been many more arrests in 2005 and 2004 than in years prior,
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We don't want to touch that with a bargepole. What kind of message would that send to our customers?
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Europe is in danger of overtaking North America as the second-worst spam-relaying part of the world. This continental shift is inevitable because as North America's percentage continues to fall, the rest of the world is witnessing a rise.
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There should be no need for anyone to pay the reward. It looks like this password was deliberately chosen by the author in an attempt to fool analysts into thinking it was a directory path instead.
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There should be no excuse for any data being lost on February 3 by this worm, but there is always the danger that some home users will not have heard that warning.
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Although the CAN-SPAM Act has helped catch some spammers, and driven some to base their operations overseas, it has an obvious flaw: it relies on people to 'opt-out' of receiving spam rather than 'opt-in' in the first place.
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They don't need to go to all that extra effort to write a virus for Macs. There are plenty of unprotected Windows computers out there.
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This move into the theft of virtual goods is hardly surprising when you consider the sums of money changing hands for virtual items in these virtual worlds.
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A combination of technology, legal action, user education and international co-operation is needed to truly make spam a thing of the past.
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You need to decide yourself on this one. The vulnerability is a serious problem -- we've seen over 200 different exploits -- but I don't think this is a time to panic.
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This is the first real virus to infect the Mac OS X. It's always been presented and marketed as a much safer operating system.