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GeoCities is Dead. Long Live GeoCities
Posted in: Information Security
For many people who came to the Internet in the mid to late 1990s, the personal webpage craze was only just beginning and there were a handful of stalwart providers that gave budding Internet users all the room they needed to have garish colour schemes, poorly designed animated gifs and all the flas....
Posted: 24 April 2009 13:25
What is the Future for File Sharing?
Posted in: Information Security
From the time that computers began being available for the home hobbyist, there has been file sharing and copyright infringement. What has changed over time is the methods used to share the files. With the rapid growth in the use of the Internet, and the introduction of newer technologies that mak....
Posted: 24 April 2009 12:32
A PowerPoint 0-day and a Second Worm Targeting MS08-067
Posted in: Information Security
Microsoft has in recent days identified a new PowerPoint vulnerability that has been attacked in the wild prior to detection, and have also announced the discovery of another malware family attacking the same MS08-067 vulnerability that Conficker initially did.
For the PowerPoint vulnerability, u....
Posted: 5 April 2009 22:45
Information Distribution Being Shaken Up In More Than One Way
Posted in: Information Security
More and more pressure is being placed on traditional publishers as the economic crisis continues to bite. Recently there have been major newspaper publishers filing for bankruptcy protection, with the publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, and the publisher of the Chicago Sun-....
Posted: 3 April 2009 23:45
Conficker's April Fool
Posted in: Information Security
Conficker's expected April 1st mass activity seems to be passing without any significant problems, at least it has done so in the countries already through April 1.
Perhaps the biggest April Fool's joke was that many thought there was going to be major problems on April 1. Not all computer exper....
Posted: 1 April 2009 17:19
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