India in top three 'spam spewing' global nations list. Just 20 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) out of over 42,201 are responsible for spreading 50 percent of junk mails, phishing attacks and other malicious messages, a survey has revealed. The survey by a researcher in Holland found that many of these networks were concentrated in India, Vietnam and Brazil. On the net's most crime-ridden network, Spectranet in Nigeria, 62 percent of all the addresses controlled by that ISP were seen to be sending out spam, the BBC reports.
According to the report, in his analysis of over 42,000 ISPs, Giovane Cesar Moreira Moura who studied at the University of Twente, found that some networks could be classed as "bad neighbourhoods" because, just like in the real world, they were places where malicious activity was more likely. Moura discovered that networks involved in malicious activity also tended to specialise in one particular sort of malicious message or attack. By contrast, spammers tend to favour Asian ISPs. Most spam comes from just 20 ISPs. A new study has shown that over 50% of all junk mail and spam on the Internet is generated from just 20 Internet service providers (ISPs) out of 42,000 ISPs currently registered worldwide. The study, which can be downloaded to read in its entirety, looked at the sources of spam and junk mail.
The research has been carried out by analysis Giovane Cesar Moreira Moura of the University of Twente. Moura has found that some networks could be classed as "bad neighborhoods" because they are the places where malicious activity was more likely. In all Moura examined 42,201 ISPs. According to his university's research brief, he has found that about 50% of all junk mail, phishing attacks and other malicious messages come from just 20 networks. Many of these networks are concentrated in India, Vietnam and Brazil. However, the Internet's most crime-ridden network is Spectranet in Nigeria, where 62% of all the addresses controlled by that ISP were seen to be sending out spam. Read more... Do You Value Working From Home? Are flexible work arrangements a discretionary perk or the backbone of a modern company? How should productivity be measured? And how should it be balanced against less tangible priorities such as innovation and collaboration? These are just some of the issues bubbling to the surface in the wake of news that struggling media company Yahoo is eliminating its work-from-home policy.
First reported Friday by All Things D, the leaked internal memo emphasized the spontaneous interactions between employees that occur in an office and that that all remote workers will be required to report to an office. But we'd like to hear your thoughts. Do You Work From Home? Image via iStockphoto, bonniej.
Google censorship. Google. This Button Will Be Your Headphone's New Best Friend. The button. It's so simple, so underrated and so under-appreciated. But all of that is changing now. Shapeways has revolutionized buttons. Instead of just keep your shirt from flying open, it now doubles as an elegant holder for headphone cables. SEE ALSO: Listen Up: Here’s a Brief History of Headphones Who hasn't suffered that irritating moment when your headphones get snarled around your sweater or snagged on something and get yanked from your ears? It works especially well with Apple ear buds and any cords with a two millimeter diameter. Would you buy this handy button accessory? Apple: Securing Its Intellectual Property And Your Confidence For The Long-Term. Gerüchte um Apple: Lifting für das Macbook - Digital. In vier Wochen ist es soweit, dann steigt im Moscone Center in San Francisco die größte Party des Jahres - zumindest für Apple-Entwickler. Auf der "Worldwide Developers Conference" (WWDC) treffen sich Tausende Programmierer, Journalisten und Fans, um sich auszutauschen und einen Blick auf neue Apple-Produkte zu erhaschen.
Dass der Konzern neue Produkte im Gepäck hat, gilt als sicher. Im vergangenen Jahr präsentierte der verstorbene Steve Jobs auf seiner letzten Keynote das mobile Betriebssystem iOS 5, das neue Mac-Betriebssystem OS X Lion und den Cloudspeicher iCloud. In diesem Jahr rechnen alle mit der Fortsetzung iOS 6, dass auf dem nächsten iPhone seine Premiere feiern wird. Aufmerksame Apple-Fans haben bereits Hinweise darauf im Netz gefunden: Zeitweise war unter der Adresse der Hinweis "Um beta.icloud.com zu nutzen, musst du dich zunächst mit der iOS 6-Beta einloggen" zu sehen. Neue Laptops am Horizont iCloud trifft Instagram? MacBook Pro With Retina Display: Is It Worth It? [POLL] On Monday, Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco was center stage for a much-anticipated release: the 15” MacBook with Retina display.
The question now is not whether people will buy it (there is already an 8-week backorder), but why. Many were ready to stampede the Apple store and drop some serious cash on the computer, which starts at $2,199. And while some say Apple is once again ahead of the game, others see reasons to pass. The specs are impressive, including a light, slim design with powerful graphics and a pace that feels like it's approaching the speed of light.
Let us know how you feel about Apple's new Retina display MacBook. Macbook pro retina.
Turn Your Google+ Hangout Into a YouTube Party. We've all been to parties where someone grabs the laptop and starts showing everyone this latest cool YouTube video. Eventually, everyone gathers around the computer, firing off their favorites, and the party turns into a YouTube party. If you love this form of entertainment, you'll be glad to know that Google has launched a YouTube app for Google+ Hangouts which lets all participants share and watch YouTube videos. To try it out, start a Hangout and have all users load the YouTube app at the top of the screen. Now, everyone can start adding videos, drag and drop them to change the order in the playlist, as well as skip forward or backward. Participants can also share a video that's playing with their Google+ circles at any time, or save the playlist (as public or private) to their YouTube account. The app is available worldwide in 60 languages.
How do you like the idea? 'US Ignite' Will Create Ultra-Fast Experimental Broadband Networks. The White House has launched a public-private partnership aiming to build ultra high-speed broadband networks in communities around the U.S. Unveiled Thursday, it's called US Ignite. The networks will be opened up to developers for use as a development sandbox for turning out new applications in key sectors of the economy.
"This network will become a test-bed for designing and deploying next-generation applications to support national priorities areas such as education, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing," reads the White House's press release. "US Ignite will challenge students, startups, and industry leaders to create a new generation of applications and services that meet the needs of local communities while creating a broad range of job and investment opportunities. " The networks are expected to be rolled out in more than 25 cities over the next five to six years. The NSF is committing $20 million to the development of the new networks.
Judge Posner Dumps Ridiculous Patent Fight Between Apple & Motorola As Contrary To The Public Interest. Judge Richard Posner is, perhaps, the most influential judge not on the Supreme Court. Beyond writing a ton of books (and columns and articles and blog posts), his rulings often seem to carry extra weight. On intellectual property, he's been something of a mixed bag. He's written an entire book (which I consult frequently) on The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law.
While extremely knowledgeable on the subject, he does (too frequently) come down on the side of believing that without IP law, you couldn't have a functioning market for products that are covered by intellectual property. While he normally is on the 7th Circuit Appeals Court, appeals court judges will sometimes "slum it" down at a district court. So it's pretty interesting to see that Posner has told everyone he's dumping the case. This isn't a huge surprise, since Posner's statements in filings from a few weeks ago certainly suggested his annoyance that a lawsuit had been filed over these patents.
Press Tries To Pin High Profile Killings On The Web & World Of Warcraft. And, here we go again. The press and "cultural commentators" absolutely love to blame new technologies for someone who does something bad. The latest is that in response to the crazy Luka Magnotta case (involving the guy in Canada who killed and dismembered someone, filming the whole thing, eating some pieces and sending others to politicians) a "cultural critic" in France is arguing that without the internet, Magnotta would not have committed his crimes. Without the web, “the butcher of Montreal would not exist,” Mr. de Boni concludes. “This killer character is a narcissistic and deviant avatar, one of many virtual identities he invented in order to create celebrity.” Because, of course, prior to the internet and Facebook, there were no such things as psychotic people who killed others and ate them.
But it is relevant to reporters who want to build a story about those crazy video games... New SpyEye plugin takes control of crimeware victims' webcam and microphone. Security researchers from Kaspersky have profiled a new SpyEye plugin known as flashcamcontrol.dll. What does it do? Basically, it modifies an infected host's Flash permissions, allowing cybercriminals the opportunity to control and webcam and the microphone of the infected victims. More details: If an infected user visits the site of a specified bank and the browser processing the page requests a flash-document via a link from the first column, the webfakes.dll plugin (which runs in a browser context) detects that request and replaces it with an address from the second column – an address controlled by the intruders. It turned out that both flash documents merely create a window with a picture from the webcam. It appears that someone is experimenting, with long-term ambitions on their mind.
This latest development once again proves that cybercriminals are steps ahead of the security industry, and will continue to innovate in an attempt to increase their fraudulently obtained revenues. Mac Flashback malware: What it is and how to get rid of it (FAQ) | Apple Talk. Apple's Mac platform has long been promoted as safer than the competition, but as Mac sales and market share grow, it's become a bigger target. Nowhere is that clearer than with the Flashback Trojan, a gnarly piece of malware designed to steal personal information by masquerading as very mainstream browser plug-ins. Yesterday Russian antivirus company Dr. Web said that an estimated 600,000 Macs are now infected as a result of users unknowingly installing the software. So here's a quick FAQ on the Flashback Trojan, including information on what it is, how to tell if you have it, and steps you can take to get rid of it.
What exactly is Flashback? Flashback is a form of malware designed to grab passwords and other information from users through their Web browser and other applications such as Skype. When did it first appear? How did it infect so many computers? What also didn't help is the way that Apple deals with Java. What has Apple done about it? How do I tell if I have it?
Now You Can Install a Second Hard Drive in Your Mid-2011 iMac. The Apple Beat: Lashinsky's "Inside Apple" peeks behind the most admired and secretive company - Canadian Reviewer - News, Reviews and Opinion with a Canadian Perspective. By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla I have been reading Adam Lashinsky's behind-the-scenes tell all Inside Apple - How America's Most Admired- And Secretive -Company Really Works. The 240 page book looks at Apple's corporate culture, many of the executives behind the products and services as well as how its extreme secrecy has enabled it to develop and launch successful products and maintain an edge in the tech industry despite a struggling economy. Author Adam Lashinsky : “Apple, the second most valuable company the world, does business exactly the opposite way that business is taught in business schools. "This book can very well serve as a companion to Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
While the Isaacson book is focused mostly on Steve Jobs' rise and personality, Inside Apple uses a series of interviews with former Apple employees and board members, industry insiders and analysts to demystify the workings of one of the most enigmatic companies in the world today. Apple TV Is Coming: 10 Ways It Will Hurt Google, Android - Cloud Computing.
Art Lebedev’s Optimus Popularis Programmable Keyboard. Tools. Twitter-Tricks: 15 Tipps für Zwitscherer. Twitter hat in den vergangenen Jahren einen Siegeszug angetreten und sich zu einer beliebten und mächtigen Plattform entwickelt. Doch mit dem Microblogging-Dienst lässt sich viel mehr machen, als Status-Updates zu verfassen und Retweets zu verschicken. Twitters Website wird den Möglichkeiten des Dienstes nicht gerecht und verschenkt viele Möglichkeiten. Mit den richtigen Hilfsmitteln und Tricks lässt sich das Zwitschern allerdings schnell optimieren. Hier kommen 15 Tipps und Tricks. 1. Zum Finden von Inhalten auf Twitter bietet sich die Seite search.twitter.com an. 2. Meistens reicht eine einfache Suchanfrage aus, um an die gewünschten Ergebnisse zu gelangen. 3.
Bei der regelmäßigen Verwendung von Twitter sammeln sich mit der Zeit sehr viele Statusmeldungen an. 4. Alle, die ihre Tweets lieber einem Cloud-basierten Service anvertrauen, sollten Tweetbackup.com ausprobieren. 5. Der Service Twtrfrnd.com lässt den User herauszufinden, ob man gemeinsame Freunde mit einem neuen Follower hat. Intel's woes expose a rickety new world order - U.S. Economy. When Intel, the largest manufacturer of computer chips in the world, releases a warning that it is slashing its expected quarterly revenues by $1 billion, financial markets naturally shudder. Intel is a linchpin of the entire technology sector; if it is hurting, it’s a good bet the U.S. economy isn’t in great shape either.
But Intel’s woes have nothing overtly to do with the U.S. economy. Intel’s sales are down because flooding in Thailand has disrupted supplies of computer hard drives. Without hard drives, computer manufacturers can’t build computers, so they are cutting back on their purchases of Intel’s chips. There’s a story here about the fragility of global supply and production chains. Ever since an earthquake in Taiwan in 1999 disrupted Dell’s supply chain, it’s been clear that the relentless search for flexibility, cheap labor coasts, and just-in-time manufacturing has a significant downside. But there’s another story here about climate change. PageRage Provokes Facebook. Intel, Micron To Build World's First 128GB NAND Storage. WebOS Gets New Lease On Life After HP Makes It Open Source. European Court Of Justice Says ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Be Copyright Cops.
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