Mims Bits on MIT’s Technology Review reports that researcher from UC San Diego have figured out how spammers use low-cost workers in Russia, Southeast Asia, and China to solve millions of CAPTCHAs in near real-time.
A CAPTCHA is that bit of distorted text you have to type back at a webpage when you’re [...]
Another school year is starting up and security firm WatchGuard has a list of the top threat to school IT systems as classes start-up again. Eric Aarrestad, Vice President at privately held WatchGuard Technologies says, ”With so much at risk and so much to gain by cybercriminals, today’s campus is one of the most dangerous IT environments [...]
PC World chronicles how analysts at the a California-based security company FireEye executed a plan to shut down the Mega-D (or Ozdok) botnet in early November 2009. At one point the Mega-D botnet reportedly accounted for 32 percent of all spam. In order to shut down this threat, Afit Mushtaq and two FireEye colleagues [...]
If are a frequent visitor to YouTube or just stopped by Scribid to check it out just once, or any other Flash site the odds are you have zombie cookies lurking on computer that you thought were long gone according to Helium. The following sites have recently been named in a lawsuit for installing zombie [...]
Security company Secunia is reporting that Apple (NASDAQ: APPL) software has the most security vulnerabilities. According to the recent Secunia Half Year Report 2010 (PDF) Apple has displaced Oracle as the company with the most security vulnerabilities in its software over the first half of 2010. Microsoft retains its third-place spot.
Wired points out that [...]