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Attackers can crack 1 in 80 Accounts

This is an interesting study and the findings are very useful to improving email security, particularly with webmail type services like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. They found in this study that attackers were able to crack one in eighty accounts by guessing answers. The results surprised the group conducting the study, they did not anticipate it would be this statistically easy to do. So word to the wise, use the more complicated verification answers whenever possible if you want your accounts to ...

Arrests made in dismantling of Mariposa Botnet, consisting 13million infected PC’s!

Big news in the world of internet security. A Botnet this large is responsible for sending a tremendous volume of Spam emails and could be used to wreak even greater Havoc. This is a big win for the good guys, we really need to unravel these criminal networks, the event of arrests in this case is the big news. This is likely to make people reconsider their path in this area of cyber-crime. http://amplify.com/u/299i

Fake Microsoft “Security Essentials” in the wild.

A very popular tactic by malware and virus writers is to masquerade as security software. Recently something has showed up in the wild that alleges to be Microsoft Security Essentials. This imposter not unlike many similar packages downloads and installs malicious components that undermine security settings on the infected host and prevents access to antivirus websites. The most popular method for packages like this are browser popups or carefully crafted links in Emails. If you think you may...

A broadband router botnet and vendor complacency stinks

A worm is creating a botnet based on broadband routers. Botnets are used to launch denial of service attacks which cause internet services such as websites to become unavailable or slow. The disturbing component of this example is the vendor complacency. In spite being warned about using the same settings on their broadband routers it seems some companies have continued to do so. That creates great opportunity for this sort of worm. We will watch this issue closely and produce follow up infor...

Using public pool NTP servers in Windows

Some windows users may find their computers time off, especially on an older system. Utilizing public pool ntp servers will allow you to synchronize to a reliable resource. This clip shows how to do just that. http://amplify.com/u/20p0

309 Year sentence for White Collar Criminal

The leader of a massive white collar crime syndicate was sentenced to a 309 year sentence in federal court this week. Bribary, Fraud and Identity theft were among the crimes he was convicted of. http://amplify.com/u/1z6t

Mock cyber attack shows US unpreparedness

Came across this article about a mock cyber attack that showed how unprepared we are. This is an awareness building piece. http://amplify.com/u/1yed

Circa January 2000 Managed Solutions #archives

Do you have a website that has been around for a long time? Check out archive.org and see if there is an old version to look at. At the time of this snapshot we were based in Fremont, CA. Memories! http://amplify.com/u/1xut

2 Reasons to use the Facebook Retweet Feature

This morning I woke up and while scanning Twitter for news I noticed @Mashable has an article about a Facebook re-tweet feature. This is kind of a big deal for Facebook users but many Facebook users aren't also Twitter users so I knew it would be useful to do a screencast to demonstrate the feature and talk about the benefits. The two reasons you should use it: To provide the person who original shared the content credit for their efforts. To encourage your friends to become fans of simila...