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Privacy in Cloud Computing Through Identity Management

March 10, 2011 12:00am PST

The migration of web applications to cloud computing platform has raised concerns about the privacy of sensitive data belonging to the consumers of cloud services. The traditional form of security...

Provided by: Purdue Federal Credit Union

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Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

March 7, 2011 12:00am PST

Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a profitable...

Provided by: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Blog Post

The 10 biggest LinkedIn annoyances

February 17, 2011 9:46am PST

As useful as LinkedIn can be for promoting your career or business and connecting with other professionals, users have voiced some major peeves. Tim Heard rounded up the top complaints.

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Discussion Threads

Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots)

February 2, 2011 2:49pm PST

Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots) article root it's xmas Until the euphoria of these new toys passes, the productivity of the business world will take a hit. This is just a simplistic...

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NoTabNab: Protection Against the "Tabnabbing Attack"

January 31, 2011 12:00am PST

In recent years phishing attacks have become one of the most important problems of online security. Aza Raskin, the creative lead of Mozilla Firefox team, proposed a new type of phishing attack,...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Detecting Social Network Profile Cloning

January 28, 2011 12:00am PST

Social networking is one of the most popular Internet activities, with millions of users from around the world. The time spent on sites like Facebook or LinkedIn is constantly increasing at an...

Provided by: FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

Blog Post

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Phishing tackled

January 25, 2011 8:06am PST

One lapse and you've swallowed the phisher's bait - hook, line and sinker...

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Friend-in-the Middle Attacks: Exploiting Social Networking Sites for Spam

January 13, 2011 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors present their friend-in-the-middle attacks on SNSs and how it can be used to harvest social data in an automated fashion. This social data can then be exploited for...

Provided by: SBA

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Software Vulnerabilities, Banking Threats, Botnets and Malware Self-Protection Technologies

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Nowadays, there is a huge variety of cyber threats that can be quite dangerous not only for big companies but also for an ordinary user, who can be a potential victim for cybercriminals when using...

Provided by: King Saud University

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Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Authentication Solutions

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Passwords are a known weak link and continue to be exploited at alarming rates. From simple phishing schemes to sophisticated, targeted phishing attacks, gaining access to a user’s password is an...

Provided by: PhoneFactor

Webcasts

Phishing Trips

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

In this webcast, the presenter explains about Discovery News' Kasey-Dee Gardner sits down with an email expert and finds out why they should never return spam emails.

Provided by: HowStuffWorks.com

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Information Leakage Through Online Social Networking: Opening the Doorway for Advanced Persistence Threats

December 10, 2010 12:00am PST

The explosion of Online Social Networking (OSN) in recent years has caused damages to organisations due to leakage of information by their employees. Employees' social networking behaviour,...

Provided by: University of Melbourne

Blog Post

Spamfighter Exchange Module: Is it better than the built-in tools?

November 22, 2010 12:37pm PST

Jack Wallen takes a look at the add-on Spamfighter Exchange Module. Is it worth the extra cost, or are the built-in tools sufficient for spam reduction?

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Blog Post

Spam: The ultimate low in Verizon's class act as a wireless carrier

November 17, 2010 8:47am PST

TechRepublic member dcolbert shares his disgust with Verizon's recent decision to place unsolicited commercial advertisements in the Android OS notification bar. He believes that a notification...

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3 Marketing Pet Peeves

November 15, 2010 12:00am PST

Spam used to refer exclusively to unsolicited email, and mostly to shady characters like phishers and people like "Robert benjamen from the Ivory Coast [sic]" who has a $10.5 million cocoa fortune...

Provided by: American Express

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway

November 12, 2010 12:00am PST

This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Gartner in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound...

Provided by: Symantec

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Solving Online Security Problems For E-Commerce By SiteKey

November 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Along with the popularity of E-Commerce increasing the online security concerns grow as well. Online crimes such as phishing target more and more customers compromising brands, undermining...

Provided by: World Business Institute

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Secure Remote Client Authentication

October 30, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper discusses an application of Secure Remote Client Authentication. It presents a Smart Cards and Digitally certification from third party vendors, Smart cards are based on algorithm to...

Provided by: International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)

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Beyond PKI: The Biocyptographic Key Infrastructure

October 27, 2010 12:00am PDT

Public Key Infrastructure is a widely deployed security technology for handling key distribution and validation in computer security. Despite PKI's popularity as a security solution, Phishing and...

Provided by: University of Colorado

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@spam: The Underground on 140 Characters or Less

October 8, 2010 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the authors present a characterization of spam on Twitter. They find that 8% of 25 million URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery