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Backblog—Security

Don't get botnetted
April 25, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Security
"Botnet" is not a verb, but it should be. As a noun, it refers to a group of computers (called zombies) that have been compromised by worms, Trojan horses or some other type of backdoor software and are secretly being used by a controller, called a bot herder or a botmaster. An article by Danny...

Information security and Green IT conflicting over enterprise mindshare in 2008?
January 13, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: Security
Privacy International just released its privacy protection rankings by country. It’s interesting that almost every country with widespread Internet usage is marked as low on the list. It made me wonder if there is a similar assessment of commercial (or criminal) use of personal information – this...

Fun with wireless networks
January 8, 2008 By Danny Bradbury
Categories: Security WiFi Hot Spots
Most tech-heads will know what an SSID is. It’s the public identity of a wireless network that broadcasts itself to the public. You’ll see them in airports and coffee shops all the time. Spark up your laptop and you’ll find “Starbucks wireless”, or “Chicago Airport Public WiFi”, or “Boingo Hotspot”,...

Beware Olympic scammers and other baddies
December 21, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Security
'Tis the season for lists: top seven, 10 or 25 compilations detailing everything from songs and celebrity scandals to bad business ideas and best-selling digital gizmos. Backbone's January issue includes a list of the top eight predictions for 2008. One of these is that computer security is going to...

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