Noted Malware Researcher and Microsoft MVP Sandi Hardmeier Joins TRUSTe Compliance and Network Monitoring Team (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
TRUSTe, the recognized authority on privacy best practices on the Internet, today announced Sandi Hardmeier will join TRUSTe as an Online Compliance Researcher. Ms. Hardmeier is a recognized and widely sought after industry expert in the field of malware and malvertizing and their impact on consumer privacy and security. She will play a key role in TRUSTe's development of improved network ...
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Aug 2006 00:55 UTC (New Mobile Computing)
In all appearance of an ad-supported operating system is probably not that far off. This article takes a look at some of the finer points behind an OS which is financed with ad views, and more specifically the logic behind a free version of Windows which could make this a reality.
U.S. hacker gets 41 months for running rogue botnet (InfoWorld)
A U.S. hacker who hooked up a botnet within Newell Rubbermaid's corporate network was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Robert Matthew Bentley, of Panama City, Fla., must also pay ,000 restitution. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Bentley could have received a 10-year sentence. He ...
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A new report from Symantec security researchers contends that Microsoft's much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that will make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows.
