According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, one cyber gang known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about."
<b>Apache Infrastructure Team:</b> "If you are a user of the Apache hosted JIRA, Bugzilla, or Confluence, a hashed copy of your password has been compromised."
International group of privacy authorities blasts Google for the recent launch of Buzz and other privacy missteps, and urges the company to get serious.
International group of privacy authorities blasts Google for the recent launch of Buzz and other privacy missteps, and urges the company to get serious.
<b>jd:/dev/blog:</b> "Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it."
<b>Mark Shuttleworth:</b> "The Ayatana Indicators work has given us a crisp, clean basis for indicators in the panel. We've said they will all look a particular way, and behave a particular way. And we've said they will be placed on the right of the panel. But why limit indicators to the panel? Let's make it possible for applications to use indicators themselves, for all the things that indicators are good at:"
If you're looking for laser business printers with a splash of color, this color laser printer from Samsung offers speed, power and convenience at an affordable price.
Canonical overhauls its Ubuntu Linux OS support services with the new Advantage solution, which offers legal indemnification, support and management services.
At Mobile World Congress, Verizon Wireless and mobile VoIP leader Skype announce they've teamed up on a mobile application for smartphones that will be available in March.
Laurie McCabe offers up strategies and tips and resources — suitable for any small business — that are good for the environment and good for the bottom line, too.
Latest report from M86 Security finds that so-called exploit kits are becoming more common and affordable for hackers looking to jumpstart their malware activities.
The offsite data storage service company, formerly known as Data Deposit Box, has combined remote access to the desktop with its continuous backup service in a new cloud-based offering for SMBs called KineticD.
As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime.
<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "One way to solve this problem is to use exposure blending. This technique involves taking several shots of the same scene or subject with different exposures and then fusing these shots into one perfectly exposed photo."
As Microsoft makes the latest beta of its Windows Server AppFabric available, it's urging developers to begin building composite applications that span both local servers and services in the cloud.