Submission + - The Deceptive Legitimacy of Spam (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Research suggests that all the spam from Gmail users is not what it seems as the bad guys apply the 'deceptive legitimacy' strategy to junk mail.
Submission + - Are security software vendors stifling innovation? (zdnet.co.uk)
coomaria writes: While most security software is truly lemon squeezy easy to install these days, taking just a few minutes as a rule, the same still cannot always be said of the process of trying to remove it from your computer. Uninstallation issues related to security software remain a royal pain in the arse to anyone involved in the oldest of modern professions, unpaid family and friends technical support. So is the conspiracy theory right (trying to stop people using competing applications) or is it just piss poor programming?
Submission + - Top Gear Romanian Hackers Deface The Telegraph (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Were old SQL vulnerabilities responsible for Romanian hacking group defacement of The Telegraph newspaper?
Submission + - Honey, I forgot the database (shame the hackers di (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: And the Oscars for 'Being Most Honest' and 'Being Most Stupid' go to Atlassian for Honey I Forgot The Database — a dark comedy of security errors.
Submission + - Guy Kewney RIP - death of an IT legend (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: The well known UK-based 'grandfather of tech journalism' Guy Kewney died today, aged 63, after a shirt battle with cancer. Guy truly was a legend, and can lay claim to being the original and first proper technology journalist back in the 70's.
Submission + - MW2 Prestige-Fest for Easter with double XP (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Yay! Play Modern Warfare 2 using the new Stimulus Package maps over the weekend of 2nd to 5th April and, according to an Infinity Ward insider posting to Twitter, you will get double XP for every game played. I reckon there will be a lot of new Prestige players come the end of that weekend, very tired ones probably.
Submission + - 75% of enterprises have suffered $2M+ cyber attack (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study from a security company that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: "every enterprise, yes 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009"
Submission + - Your own personal pink Linux data cloud (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: What's small and pink, incorporates a Linux kernel and an embedded ARM compatible processor, and let's you set up your own personal cloud? The new Pogoplug is very pink and gets very reviewed here.
Submission + - Space boffins invent x-ray machine for legacy code (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Boffins who used to work at the Space Technology Centre at the University of Dundee promise to reveal secrets of legacy code with new Visual Studio .NET 'x-ray' software
Submission + - HoneyGrid reveals 95% of UGC is crap (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: The HoneyGrid scans 40 million websites every hour so it was bound to find something interesting. What it found was a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam.
Submission + - Proof of concept app turns iPhone into spyPhone (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Apple has known about a serious flaw that can allow iPhone data to be harvested by rogue apps for more than a year, now one security researcher has created an app that turns the iPhone into a spyPhone and he's open-sourced it.
Submission + - Johnny Depp is NOT dead (Big Twitter FAIL) (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Top trending item on Twitter is currently 'RIP Johnny Depp' — only trouble is, the actor is not dead...
Submission + - Google hurts foot kicking China in Android nuts (daniweb.com)
coomaria writes: Just how does Google escape this China syndrome without damaging either its business or reputation?
Submission + - It’s an EDGE record breaker (itpro.co.uk)
coomaria writes: Huawei says it has set a new data record for a downlink dual carrier test for Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE) of 564Kb/s. To put that in some kind of sausage roll eating perspective, 564Kb/s is twice as fast as existing EDGE networks and could mean that 2G users could soon see 3G services such as live video over their GSM networks.
Submission + - Why cracking encryption is good for security (daniweb.com) 1
coomaria writes: Very interesting piece that suggests the cracking of encryption is essential to drive security standards forward.
