Now this is pretty disgusting behaviour from a national telco provider, but well is it really surprising in Dubai? For me..no it’s not.
I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time in Dubai on various projects, and my first surprise was Flickr being blocked. Especially as Dubai is probably the most liberal place in the Middle East. [...]

It’s a sad case when someone loses their career over an incidnet which was outside of their control, not everyone can be expected to keep their computers free of spyware and malware.
It just doesn’t happen.
Unfortunately for Julie Amero, she got some porn pop-ups at the wrong time in a class full of students. If you [...]

UK Police have uncovered a fairly massive data theft operation with a total close to 8,500 victims.
It’s quite worrying when things like this are uncovered as if 1 is uncovered or discovered…imagine how many aren’t found out about, just like exploits.

British electronic-crime detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from [...]

This is the first part (of many others to come) consisting of basic a introduction to different viruses, some terminology and other aspects required before starting to understand or write viruses…
Definition
A virus is (taken from Windows XP’s Help And Support Center):

A program that attempts to spread from computer to computer and either cause damage [...]

The battle is heating up between the spammers e360 and the anti-spam warlords Spamhaus, some say the Internet may meltdown if Spamhaus stops its service..
Some estimates say 80% of spam is stopped by Spamhaus and e-mail could suddenly shoot to a server melting rate if their service is pulled.

The legal battle between antispam organisation Spamhaus [...]

This is pretty funny, but frankly typical of McDonalds..act before they think, it’s cheap, it’ll get more customers, whack it out!
They gave out a bunch of flash drive mp3 players as a promotion, it turns out every single one was loaded with a fairly nasty piece of spyware!

McDonalds Japan has launched a recall after discovering [...]

Cyber and computer laws are always a grey area, they tend to be very vague and don’t cover specific technologies.
Spam is a good example, look at how long we’ve been getting spammed, and it’s been a SERIOUS problem for at least the last 5 years, spam legislation has only started coming in to effect in [...]

This is a little scary, intensely personal ads which to be frank are getting a little invasive as it is..It’s like the part in minority report where the billboards scan your eyes and talk to you using your name and history of purchases.
It looks like it might be happening sooner than we think.

The first thing [...]

This effort started quite a long time ago, I was just checking up to see how they were getting on, but there’s not much news of their progress.
perating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and disable [...]

Ethical debates are always interesting, and people have gotten in trouble lately for reverse engineering and various other branches of research.
This is a fairly old topic, but as I’m clearing out some old drafts, I still find it an interesting one.
There’s been an ongoing debate in security circles concerning how security researchers should disclose vulnerabilities [...]