Yikes, all you have to do is browse to the affected page. Glad I have Firefox!
Firefox tops IE on security. Update IE early and often. Make sure you lock IE down or simply disable it and use Firefox. But be aware that Firefox still has some limitations.
IE is swiss Cheese!!
Dear Sir/Madam, We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Sober worm pretends to be an email from the FBI or CIA.
Announced this morning is the 2005 SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities:
Top Vulnerabilities in Windows Systems
Top Vulnerabilities in Cross-Platform Applications
Top Vulnerabilities in UNIX Systems
Top Vulnerabilities in Networking Products
The “default” installation of Limewire software allegedly exposes confidential files. Limewire says there is no security flaw, but the guy making the claim offers to charge $79 to uninstall Limewire for you. This is omitted from the story.
True or false, you be the judge.
PGP Encryption is being developed for VoIP in order to help keep voice communication over the internet secure.
The federal government wants to peer into your computer communications, forcing companies to design, or redesign, their networks to accommodate surveillance. The FCC gave broadband Internet service and voice-over-Internet Protocol services, or VoIP, 18 months to ensure that their networks are wiretap-ready.
Is this the Patriot Act at work? Actually its a different act called Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)in 1994, requiring telephone companies to build surveillance capability into their networks.
I agree with EFF:
Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group focusing on technology issues, said: “It doesn't authorize wiretaps. It does something much more intrusive: It dictates the design of technologies from law enforcement's standpoint.”
“Some schools are punishing students for things written on their personal Web pages, raising questions about how far a principal's oversight should reach.”
This sounds like a privacy issue.
“It's inappropriate that they're telling my daughter how to behave when she's not at school,” said Joseph Iacovacci, Ms. Iacovacci's father, of the Web posting. “It was such a violation of the First Amendment.”
I must agree with the parent. I do believe that there has to be some kind of control. But that control should be done through the parent.
I've surfing on my Windows 2000 system while completely exposed to the Internet on my DMZ. No firewalls, no anti-virus, not even a pop-up blocker. The box is exploited immediately.
Many of the default configuration on a fresh Windows 2000 box are just plain ridiculous. For example, the C$, and parts of the root are shared out on earlier versions of Windows 2000. Message services, port 139 and other very easy to exploit applications and services are turned on by default on Windows 2000.
It is no wonder Windows systems are always getting taken down. Just turning off some of those services do quite a bit to close some of the holes on Windows boxes. With broadband getting more popular, the combination of unprotected systems and the viral marketing of malicious code are creating a storm on the Internet. An unprotected system is rendered completely useless in a matter of weeks (days and hours if you surf porn or serial sites).
Here are some of the vulnerabilities on Windows systems at SANS.org.
In all honesty, if you have a good firewall, virus protection, maybe a pop-up stopper and a good security configuration you could have a Windows 98 machine and NEVER get a virus.
I got a call the other day from an organization calling itself Advantage America Benefits (AdvantageAmericaBenifits.com).
While he spoke decent English, the man I talked to had an accent that
sounded either East Indian or Philipino. He said his name was
“Mark Anderson” that he was working with the Resurgence Department of
the U.S. Government (which does not exist) and he wanted to give me a
$12,500 grant because my family had been selected among of 6,000
families who fit certain criteria. I was, of course immediately
suspicious. While I know the U.S. government does in fact give
grants to qualifying families, I also know that the government is does
not advertise these grants for fear of social indignation.
I asked him lots of questions. All of which he did a great job of
answering. The rudeness was was what kept me on the phone.
In my experience government employees are rude and fed up with life.
I was also impressed that he was able to give a website:
http://advantageamericabenefits.com
Address:
1900 Howell Branch Road
Suite #4-7
Winter Park, FL 32792
Phone:
866-503-7345
I must admit they almost had me until I decided to do a Google search on Advantage American Benefits and stumbled across the Rip Off Report.coms take on Advantage America Benefits.
I've read on the Rip Off Report that these guys are from Bali or India, but they maybe in Canada because the IP address is in Canada:
OrgName: Groupe iWeb Technologies inc.
OrgID: GIT-20
Address: 3185, rue Hochelaga
City: Montreal
StateProv: QC
PostalCode: H1W-1G4
Country: CA
The majority of the users are people trying to bypass their school or business's filters. Also used to surf the web anonymously.