Archive for April 1st, 2010

Dead Zango installers haunt Download.com

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Dead Zango installers haunt Download.com

This is an interesting historical quirk, more than anything else - but I thought it merited a blog post. If you've seen me rattling around the Internet pre-Sunbelt, you might be aware I have a bit of a sparring history with a company called 180 Solutio... »

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Spam web sites moving from .cn to .ru

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Spam web sites moving from .cn to .ru

Scum on the runSecurity blogger Brian Krebs is reporting some good numbers that show spammers are no longer registering their domains in China (.cn) since that country started requiring actual on-paper registrations and business licenses, which preclud... »

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Will fuzzing save civilization as we know it?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Will fuzzing save civilization as we know it?

Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his group found 1,800 software flaws in Office 2010 by running millions of “fuzzing” tests.Accor... »

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Control Components aka Control Center

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Control Components aka Control Center

Control Components or Control Center is a phony security software that infects countless PC's. Control Components is a PC parasite that tricks people into thinking it's a legitimate security program and then proceeds to rip them off. Control Center is... »

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Control Components aka Control Center

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Control Components aka Control Center

Control Components or Control Center is a phony security software that infects countless PC's. Control Components is a PC parasite that tricks people into thinking it's a legitimate security program and then proceeds to rip them off. Control Center is... »

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