By Richard Stallman
“Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call “trusted computing,” large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey […]

Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Microsoft’s August security patches, released today, provide a new chance to assess the company’s promise of higher security in Windows Vista. The company released six critical security bulletins, and Windows Vista is among the versions affected by three of them.
Two of the critical bulletins involve earlier Windows versions, but not Windows Vista, […]

by Shelley Lowery
A Cyberstalker is a person who electronically harasses another person via email, instant messaging, forums, chat or any other electronic means. Although the type of harassment varies, it often includes threatening messages, which can be very intimidating.
Being the victim of a cyberstalker can be a very scary thing. However, unfortunately, it is difficult […]

GadgetTrak(TM) allows the installation of tracking software on small devices such as iPods, GPS systems, USB flash drives and digital cameras. Dateline NBC recently featured the innovative technology on its “To Catch an i-Jacker” exclusive.
Portland, OR (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 — GadgetTrak(TM) the patent-pending iPod and gadget theft recovery system was recently featured on […]

Help Net Security
SecuBox for Pocket PC 1.22
Reliable and user-friendly encryption software for Pocket PCs. It encrypts all sensitive information keeping it secure and protected, even in such catastrophic cases when the Pocket PC is lost or stolen. Protects information with strongest and most efficient encryption algorithm available today - NIST-approved AES 256-bit. The […]

Netscape.com
Report shows web sites of Hezbollah and Hamas are hosted by US companies, despite being known as terrorists organizations. ISPs must show more corporate responsibility.
See the full report here

Tags: US ISPs, web hosting, terrorism, hamas, hezbollah

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Net Security
by James Hicks
Internet connections are getting faster every day, so online antivirus solutions have transformed from proof-of-concept into actual quality security services.
I’ve been playing with some leading online antivirus products and through the next couple of weeks I will be sharing my thoughts about them. We start with two online antivirus services created by […]

New Zealand PC World Magazine
Internet attacks have become a business. And as with any business, the product must be ever-changing in attempting to entice you. But where a slick legit ad campaign might sway you into buying a gadget you don’t really need, these social engineering techniques try to trick you into infecting your computer […]

Sandboxie (www.sandboxie.com) is an application that effectively isolates some intrusive programs that monitor users as they browse online.
What is Sandboxie and how is it different than other solutions?
Think of your PC as a piece of paper. Every program you run writes on the paper. When you run your browser, it writes on the paper […]

CNET News.com
By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
WASHINGTON–Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a “national security threat” because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers.
At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new […]

By Wired Blogs
It’s not surprising that an expert hired by EFF should produce an analysis that supports the group’s case against AT&T. But last week’s public court filing of a redacted statement by J. Scott Marcus is still worth reading for the obvious expertise of its author, and the cunning insights he draws from the […]

Whitedust
Richard Compton Writes (on the Abandonia Forums),
“It has been a month since my upgrade to Vista. I like to keep up with tech trends and though reluctant to throw out XP, I forced myself to just ’swallow the pill’. After all - change is inevitable, and resistance to change shows only our inability to adapt […]