Security

U.S.A. Experiences First Cell Phone Virus

Newsday has an article about the first Cell phone virus being found in a cell phone in a mall in Santa Monica, CA. It was the Cabir virus which only drains the battery of the cell phone faster then normal,…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

Virus Writers Now Using .rar Files

Many computer users out there have no idea what a file ending in .rar is or what they are suppose to do with it. Virus writers are using this information to infect PC’s with yet another round of viruses. Most…

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Todd Cochrane
Information, Security

Data Theft From ChoicePoint Expands

What started as a data theft report last week from ChoicePoint of 35,000 California residents, now turned into at least 145,000 thefts across the nation. According to a company spokesperson, the security breach occurred last fall, but law enforcement officials…

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Todd Cochrane
Information, Security, Technical

New Copy-Proofing for DVD’s

Macrovision is expected to release a new DVD copy-protection technology Tuesday in hopes of aiding Hollywood’s antipiracy effort. The old copy protection methods have all been cracked and even though many commercial software packages that did this were forced to close, the…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

Windows Safer then Linux?

Mike Nash, Microsoft’s top security guru said in an online chat session yesterday that Microsoft was “making progress on security using any reasonable metric.”and compared Window’s flaws to those in Red Hat and SuSE.  “Even with the relatively large number…

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Todd Cochrane