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Submission + - Egyptian government to adopt FLOSS on larger scale (mcit.gov.eg)

Submitted by ezabi on Monday December 31, 2012 @10:14AM

ezabi writes: After announcing a 43 Million USD license agreement with Microsoft, the Egyptian government was faced with a protest from FLOSS enthusiasts staging a stand before the cabinet http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/activists-protest-microsoft-deal
Later, representatives from the community had a meeting with the minister of communications and information technology, such a meeting led to the ministry issuing a press release (in Arabic) stating its commitment to gradually move to open source as a strategic option for future projects.
It's worth mentioning that all governmental websites used in the elections and constitution referendum were all based on open source solutions.

Submission + - Google Docs to kill file sharing sites (blogspot.com)

Submitted by ezabi on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @02:03PM

ezabi writes: According to this post on the official Google blog, in the coming weeks Google Docs will offer to host all file types with a limit of 250 MB, which as they say is larger than the current limit for email attachements.
This will have its consequences; paid file sharing will die, more shared pirated material, newer vulnerabilities and malware distribution channels...

Comment Re:Adware (Score 1) 68

by ezabi on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @04:27PM (#29208463) Attached to: Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network

Certainly most of the employees wouldn't know that their actual work is used to serve illegitimate activities, otherwise they wouldn't include it in their CV's, how would a web developer know that the site he's working on is promoting a fake product, if you look for more details of the activity elsewhere you would find that these peoples' ultimate goal was to drive users to a form where they would gladly submit their personal and credit card details, TrendWatch wouldn't clearly explain such activities in its white paper for obvious reasons.

Security professionals would understand the meaning behind the attack.

Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network 68

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:01PM from the e-front-affront dept.

ezabi writes "TrendWatch, the malware research arm of TrendMicro, has posted a white paper titled 'A Cybercrime Hub' (PDF, summary here) describing the activities of an Estonian ISP acting as a cover-up for a large cybercrime network. It's involved with malware distribution and DNS hijacking, which leads to credit card fraud. The story's interesting, and a typical internet user would be exposed in such a situation. What security measures should be taken to prevent normal users from falling victim to such malicious bodies? Note that they are represented legitimately and are offering real services like any other internet company."

Submission + - Legitimate ISP a cover-up for a cybercrime network 1

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ezabi

on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @09:03AM

ezabi writes: "TrendWatch, the malware research arm of TrenMicro, has posted a white paper "A Cybercrime Hub" describing the activities of an Estonian ISP acting as a cover-up for a large cybercrime network, such network is involved with malware distribution, DNS hijacking with last but not least leads to credit card fraud.
The story's interesting and any internet Joe User is exposed to that.
My question to Slashdot users is what security measures should be taken to prevent normal users from falling victims to such malicious bodies, note that they are represented legitimately and are offering legitimate services such as any other internet companies."

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