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Can malware tactics be used for good effects?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Computer parasites are evil. No one likes them and almost everyone can share terrible experience related to some malware attack. But can malware tactics be employed to do something useful and harmless?
Most of malware is not really complicated; however it is capable of spreading through computers using software vulnerabilities and other methods. Could these tactics […]

Personal details may be obtained by cyber attackers

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Australia’s finally realizing the threats of cyber attacks to the country’s government institutions and business sector, which were attacked dozens of times this year, and now it’s raising concerns about the safety of personal and financial data of users.
A hacker’s website tells about numerous security breaches of government websites. Although it doesn’t say anything about […]

Five dirty tricks (in a row)

Friday, September 28th, 2007

The obvious problem with cyber-crime is that, unlike decent murdering and burglarizing criminals, they are intelligent enough to make a fool of you and your anti-viral software by using insidious methods, which are difficult to recognize. Five of their (albeit outdated) tricks have been reviewed by Erik Larkin of Yahoo.
The first one is the Glieder.H […]

Modern Security Threats

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Malware creators no longer distribute viruses that erase your data or corrupt something in your computer.  Now they want to have profit of breaking into your computer in all possible ways. Modern malware steal bank accounts, email accounts, identities, turn computer into spamming machine or use it for further malicious actions.
Botnets are the biggest threat […]

Personal information thefts are more common than before

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

People often do not take identity theft as a real crime. However you can do a lot of bad things if you have right information about someone. If you think that you are ordinary human and no one is interested in your credit card number or social insurance information, you are terribly wrong. According to […]

Online copyrights

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

It is really hard to estimate how many original items are the on the World Wide Web. The most part of these articles are protected with Copyright laws, so that nobody can use them without author’s (or owner’s) permission. Of course, the Internet is a model of the real world, that’s why various violations still […]

Spyware warrior

Friday, April 8th, 2005

Original article was published at www.jurgita.com.
Suzi “the owner of spywarewarrior.com” was contacted with the request to remove inaccurate information posted in her site.
the answer was: “I did review the thread but I’m not in favor of removing it because other people have posted there too and it would be unfair censorship to them as well. […]

Microsoft monopoly

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Nowadays everyone who uses computer can see that Microsoft is a leader in the market of the software for PC. This company is known all over the world, as its production is being used everywhere. It is possible to state and it is not a secret that Microsoft is a monopoly. Yes, nowadays this company […]





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