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SANS, a US-based educational body lists the 10 most dangerous cyber threats.

The list reveals growing technical expertise and professionalism among hackers acting for financially or politically motivated paymasters. IT bosses need to respond by setting up cyber defenses in depth, limiting access to information on a need-to-know basis, and educating users."
- Said Timothy Mullen, vice-president of consulting services at UK-based NGS Software. Definitely, attackers are targeting popular, trusted websites where users have an expectation of effective security, while at the same time, using insecure websites to infect the browsers of visitors with viruses, Trojans and key loggers.

SANS Institute Top 10 Cyber Threats for 2008...read on...

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The European Union wants IP addresses to be considered personal information; the topic was discussed yesterday before the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee.

With IPV6 on our doorstep, it almost feels like their proposal implies that we're moving towards something like: "Hello, my name is ABCD:EF01:2345:6789:ABCD:EF01:2345:6789. Pleased to meet you" Next thing we know your ID card will have your IP address.

The issue prompted considerable debate, "From a U.S. perspective, there is no consensus over this issue," said U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner representative Pamela Harbour. Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleisher said," There is no black or white answer: sometimes an IP address can be considered as personal data and sometimes not, it depends on the context, and which personal information it reveals."

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Reading this article simply made me grin - for good reason ! As much as I love this guy on TV --- what was this guy thinking when he published his bank account details and sort code in a column in The Sun??? (Not to mention the clues to his address) After the recent issue of 25m bank account details going missing -- What's all the fuss about??? Why all the fuss??? Clarkson thought that the worst that could happen was that someone could pay money into his account (some Nigerian scam maybe...)

Heh --- talk about being aware of what the bad guys can or can't do --- the result was that some smart guy prankster set up a £500 direct debit from the presenter's account in favour of charity Diabetes UK.

"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again," Clarkson said in a column published in the Sunday Times. "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake. Needless to say he is now hopping mad over the data loss

I can't help but to advise you to be diligent when divulging any kind of personal details - especially concerning bank details. You never know where your money might end up!

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So it’s a new year… Another year, another thousand virii and worms released into the Internet ‘wild’ to attack our computers, millions of more Identites released, and untold more spams mails sent. Well if some of the powers that be would make some Infosec New Years Resolutions (and keep them!) those numbers wont be quite as high. Then again, if these New Years resolutions go like most of mine, the spammers, hackers and crackers have nothing to fear. So without further ado, I present the Fearless Security New Years Infosec Resolutions with something for everyone

- To the clueless large companies that lost our private information last year
- To the clueless companies that have yet to lose our information
- To the clueless small companies
- To the clueless retailers
- To the clueless credit bureau companies
- To our beloved clueless government and of course our favorite friends, the clueless users.

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Microsoft strikes again! Yet another feature, stolen away from the geniuses that brought us online e-cards, funny flash videos & mini flash games.


Yes, Microsoft Silverlight is a runtime platform for browser-based Internet Applications providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities available in .NET 3.0.
The plug-in already runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. And yet again, Linux was thrown out of the window… or rather “Windows^®”.


Silverlight is a direct competitor of Adobe Flash and JavaFX from Sun Micro (launched a few days after Silverlight).

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