Stories about: Vigilance

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    McColo takedown: Internet self policing or vigilantism 02/12/2008 09:01:00

    Few tears were shed when McColo, a US-based company that allegedly hosted systems for prolific purveyors of spam, malware and child pornography, was suddenly taken offline by its upstream service providers on November 11.
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    McColo takedown: Vigilantism or Neighborhood Watch? 18/11/2008 08:27:00

    Few tears were shed when McColo, a US-based ISP that allegedly hosted companies known to be prolific purveyors of spam and other malware, was suddenly taken offline last Tuesday by its upstream service providers.
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    Laid off sysadmin arrested for threatening company's servers 11/11/2008 11:13:00

    A systems administrator was arrested in New Jersey Monday for allegedly trying to extort money and even good job references out of a New York-based mutual fund company that had just laid him off.
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    Netbooks for business 13/08/2008 15:51:26

    The original Asus Eee PC took the hardware world by storm. Small, lightweight, inexpensive, yet running a full-fledged OS, this tiny device offered laptop capabilities at near-PDA pricing. Asus has since expanded its Eee PC line with models of varying capabilities, and competing devices are now arriving from other manufacturers, including Acer, Dell, HP, and MSI, among others. Collectively, these devices have come to be called "netbooks."
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    PDF Key to Digital Preservation — But Not Alone 29/05/2008 12:01:34

    UK organization says agencies must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies
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    Beware of 'blended threats,' phishing zombies in 2008 02/01/2008 06:02:04

    "Blended threats" - online security attacks that combine several techniques - are likely to become more pervasive in 2008, security industry insiders say.
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    RSA's Art Coviello spells out security challenges ahead 17/12/2007 10:42:55

    Art Coviello, President of RSA and Executive Vice President of EMC Corporation, talks to Computerworld's Siobhan Chapman about enterprise threats, IT security spend and the rising threat posed by social networks.
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    UK kids warned MySpace isn't private - OMG!! 26/11/2007 07:01:46

    Young people are compromising their career prospects and opening the door to online fraud by posting personal information on social networking sites without thinking about the consequences, a U.K. privacy watchdog warned Friday.
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    The Storm that never ends 19/10/2007 08:36:56

    We like to imagine that hackers are smart, but it is their collective incompetence that has allowed the IT industry to survive their attacks as long as they have.
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    Parent power 27/07/2007 20:39:53

    Let's face it, PCs wouldn't be even half as interesting without the Internet. Take the web out of the equation and you lose online shopping and gaming, email, music downloads and the ability to chat on Messenger. In other words, the very activities that most of us bought a PC for in the first place.
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    AI will surpass human intelligence after 2020 07/05/2007 10:26:25

    Vernor Vinge, 62, is a pioneer in artificial intelligence, who in a recent interview warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.
 
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