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PayPal tackles phishing trap
PayPal has fixed a flaw in its website to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said on Friday. By exploiting the flaw, attackers were able to redirect people from a PayPal web page to an online trap located in South Korea, a representative for the service said. The page actually has a real PayPal URL but hosts malicious code that presents a message warning members that their account had been compromised. It then redirects them to a "phishing" website. At the malicious, information-thieving website, people are asked for their PayPal login information, experts at Netcraft, an internet monitoring company in England, said in an advisory. Subsequently, the scammers are urged to enter their Social Security number and credit card details, Netcraft said.
DCITA: Too many policies, too few policies?
I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives. The budget wrap-up release from Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, touted budget highlights including AU$10.5 million to promote digital radio, AU$282.9 million to promote film production, and AU$4.6 million for an expansion of the Australian Ballet School. Nowhere, however, did the release mention that the government had earmarked AU$93.5 million to establish a new broadband blackspots program, which will provide significant subsidies to rural Australians to whom provision of broadband will cost more than AU$2,500 over three years.
Will consumers scrimp on paid security software?
Symantec and McAfee could face headwinds in 2008 amid weak consumer spending, according to Cowen & Co. Meanwhile, the two are duking it out over a Acer-Gateway OEM deal. Cowen analyst Walter Pritchard downgraded Symantec from "outperform" to "neutral" on the theory that the company will face weakening security demand. Pritchard maintained his "outperform" rating on McAfee. But the stock mumbo jumbo isn't what's notable about Pritchard's research notes. The big takeaway: Consumers may see security software as discretionary to some degree. On the surface, Pritchard's argument sounds counterintuitive. You'd think security software would be the last to go. The argument raises interesting questions: How discretionary is security software? If your budget was tight would you boot Norton for a free alternative? Are Microsoft's offerings more attractive? Pritchard writes: "Our survey indicates that significantly more consumers are obtaining their security for free.
IIS 6.0 Mature at Last
WHEN I FIRST TAUGHT Windows NT 4.0 courses, Internet Information Server (IIS) 2.0 was included in the base operating system. It was a big improvement over IIS 1.0, and I still remember the fun I had showing students how easy it was to set up a Web server. That was about six years ago, when Web servers running on NT were an exception. Since then, things have changed considerably. IIS has improved in performance, increased in functionality and grown in the number of deployments because of the changes. Netcraft reports that IIS has between 24 percent and 35 percent of the market, depending on how it�s measured. I expect the increased security and performance of IIS 6.0 to bump up those numbers a great deal. So let�s look at IIS 6.0 and what it brings to the table. In putting together this article, I sat down with several of my former IIS students over lunch and showed them the new Process Model for IIS 6.0.
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