ZoneAlarm News
News Archive - June 2008
27, June 2008
ISP Comcast had a rude shock recently when hackers gained access to its domain name records and redirected comcast.net traffic to a hacked site. The hackers, just teenagers, controlled...
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26, June 2008
Almost everybody has some degree of reticence about their personal information being broadcast to the world. Likewise with fingerprints and photographs being stored in databases for no good reason.
In...
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25, June 2008
After a data breach the University of Virginia compromised names and social security numbers, a professor of microchemistry and molecular genetics had his identity and $22,000 stolen. Despite not...
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24, June 2008
Believe it or not there's actually an association dedicated to stopping the abuse of domain names. The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) recently held a forum to discuss...
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23, June 2008
More than two out of three cases of malicious software that resides on the web does so on legitimate sites owned and operated by legitimate companies with no knowledge of...
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22, June 2008
The majority of internet users don't knowingly surf on virus and malware infected sites, but unfortunately the biggest risk comes not from overtly fraudulent sites but legitimate sites that have...
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21, June 2008
A report into the online travel industry has shown that most scams in that area of commerce center on online promotions, defrauding e-commerce sites and other scams. A good...
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20, June 2008
A new report has profiled the most likely place for a "dangerous" website to be hosted. It found that Hong Kong had the highest proportion of risky sites with...
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19, June 2008
Drive by download websites are sites that can download malicious software onto the computers of unsuspecting visitors. And don't think this is rare. The drive by download attack...
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18, June 2008
If your PC doesn't have the grunt to run Microsoft Windows Vista, you're in luck. The software giant has decided to support Windows XP for a little longer, citing...
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17, June 2008
The world of internet security can be a messy place. It's big business securing computers from hackers and other internet menaces, but this is one industry that's turning into...
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16, June 2008
Microsoft has long dominated the software run on the desktops of workplace computers. Around the world for a decade the Windows operating systems has been the first choice for...
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15, June 2008
Yesterday's new article profiled a report released by the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) which explained the high growth in gangs using the internet for criminal purposes. The...
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14, June 2008
A stark warning has been issued by the United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency: there's a growing number of international crime gangs on the internet and they want to steal...
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12, June 2008
Good news for mobile phone users! Google is about to release some software to run on smart phones which will offer great competition to the Apple iPhone. I'm...
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11, June 2008
Coming hot on the heels of Mozilla's Firefox announcement about ramped up browser security, bit player in the internet browser market, Opera has announced that the new version of its...
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10, June 2008
Limit your exposure. That's one of the best ways to avoid becoming a statistic in the online war against phishing and scams. For instance, when you're on one...
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09, June 2008
There's another "greeting card" scam doing the cyber-rounds at the moment. Watch out for one allegedly from Hallmark. It's not a greeting card but instead a phishing scam...
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08, June 2008
Most people now know that handing out personal information is a crazy, if not stupid thing to do. These days the more astute people in society shred their bank...
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07, June 2008
In recent fraud cases spammers have been sending unsolicited emails to unsuspecting citizens pretending to be from US Government departments. The concept is to try to fool the public...
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06, June 2008
In Philadelphia last week Washington man Edward Anderton ,25, pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a number of victims and leading a lavish lifestyle with his girlfriend on the...
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05, June 2008
The trend of employees leaking company information via email is growing and the staff implicated are being sacked. Some data points to as much as 50% of the workforce...
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04, June 2008
In New York last week computer manufacturer Dell was found guilty of deceptive business practices, false advertising and fraud in a case brought forward by the state's attorney general. ...
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03, June 2008
The storm botnet has been doing the rounds infecting computers all around the world for years now. In fact storm is the world’s largest robotic malicious software. But there’s a...
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02, June 2008
You would like to think the FBI would be pretty good at protecting themselves against hacking. Right? Hmm, well then it might come as some surprise that a...
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01, June 2008
I love the internet browser Mozilla. It only has small market share, but for a "challenger" product it does some pretty cool things. I also use Internet Explorer...
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