Retail giant Wal-Mart fired an employee Monday for eavesdropping on phone calls and intercepting text messages between the company’s media-relations staff and a New York Times reporter. How do you intercept a text message? The Explainer explains all.read more | digg story

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Seagate Technology LLC, the world’s largest hard drive maker, announced Monday the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with its new built-in encryption technology.
The hard drives, to be available in laptops made by ASI Computer Technologies, will include a chip that makes it impossible for anyone to read data off the disk, or even boot [...]

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Merijn has sold HijackThis to TrendMicro. The transaction happened 3-4 months ago, but you can now find a beta of the Trend version available here.
Three major changes that I notice, and don’t care for:
1) HijackThis ™ — it’s now trademarked, potentially restricting its use. How will it affect sites offering free help via HijackThis?
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We’ll walk you through the details of installing and securing a wired and Wi-Fi local-area network, which can connect four to eight people in a 600-square foot workspace.
This article will walk you through the fine details of conceiving, installing, and securing a wired and Wi-Fi local-area network. For the purposes of this project, we’re envisioning [...]

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Do you take your freedom to surf the web for granted? I’m sure we all do and I’m sure most of us have tasted what it is to be blocked when viewing innocent web sites at work. It’s sort of sour with a bitter after taste.Well then you can imagine what it must be like [...]

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Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.
But when Johnson didn’t recognize either man, he decided to involve people - a lot of them - to help crack the case. He posted a clip from a security camera [...]

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Marcin Kleczynski, author of RogueRemover writes about another rogue anti-malware application. Typical to most like programs, this one doesn’t allow updates until purchased, displays false positives while scanning, and doesn’t allow any infection removal until purchased. However, this program is also installed via expolits (mostly crack sites). Stay away from NeoSpace Internet Security.

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The explosion of passwords in today’s enterprise has created a sea of holes in the security infrastructure. Some CIOs have responded to the challenge by bringing in the lifeboats, figuratively speaking, but in many cases the password-related security risk remains largely unchecked and even ignored.
Whether out of denial, inertia or sheer work overload, many IT [...]

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Greg Garcia, the cyber-security czar for the Homeland Security Department, said that when customers or partners refuse to do business with companies that do not meet certain cyber standards, “that’s when the groundswell [for improving security] is going to come.” Speaking Thursday to the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Garcia also did not rule [...]

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A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational.
Unlike cracks which have been floating around since Vista RTM was released in late November, this crack doesn’t simply get around product activation [...]

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