SPIT is what the new term is for SPAM which comes through VoIP. SPIT stands for Spam over Internet Telephony. Now intruders and spammers can insert SPIT onto our VoIP systems too. More details can be found from this article on Business Times.
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Carnivore is a controversial software that has been used by FBI for few years now. The news is FBI is retiring Carnivore software now and are going to use other commercial products ( I am sure other products are smarter than Carnivore was). “FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic, according to documents released Friday” Tejas Patel ......
I don't understand! I just got an Wallop invitation from a friend of mine. The invitaiton comes from mywallop.com domain. Here is a copy of the email. “Dear Tejas Patel : *********has invited you to join Wallop, where you can share photos, blog and interact with your friends! Click on names of people in your social network to explore what's new with your friends and their friends. In Wallop, the more you interact with your friends, the more you will appear connected. We will let you know who's ......
I had to try this. Since I came back from holidays I heard from people that Microsoft came out with a anti-spyware program. They said they won't be trying it soon as it was still in Beta. Well I could not wait nor do I care of it breaking anything on my system. So I searched for it and here it was. The installation was smooth. I started the scan and it finished scanning 15200 files on my system (Intelligent Quick Scan) in 1 mintue 30 seconds on my system. As my system is well protected by firewall ......
Try Microsoft E-learning labs, both for developers and for networking guys. The following Security training and labs are offered for now: - Clinic 2801: Microsoft® Security Guidance Training I Clinic 2802: Microsoft® Security Guidance Training II Clinic 2806: Microsoft® Security Guidance Training for Developers Hands-On Lab 2811: Applying Microsoft® Security Guidance Training Tejas Patel ......
Now this is funny, but I am a little bit horrified. There is a new virus/malware that will use Windows Speech Engine to give users the intended message.More info on Theunofficialmicrosoftweblog.
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Sumit Dhar links me to Filetopia which and sumit says that it is a firewall friendly P2P program. “Filetopia is a free communications software that includes: instant messaging, chat, a powerful file sharing system with a search engine, online friends list and message boards. What is unique to this software is the level of security and privacy that it provides. It uses a choice of strong ciphers and public key techniques for all communications and sophisticated techniques to protect your IP ......
A new blogger is on my list, name is Nilesh Chaudari.He did a recent presentation on 'Auditing Web Applications'. I went through the presentation slides and even though I am not a developer I could learn quite a few interesting bits about web applications and security and few things about SQL Injection. The presenatation can be downloaded from here. Tejas Patel ......
There is a worm called W32/Rbot-GR which gets onto Windows system and if they have webcams and microphones, than start recording the coversation and sending the images through the webcam.Creeppy Crap. Darn scary. I have shivers in my body now just imagining what pictures and conversations might get out by this. More information from here. Tejas Patel ......
“Are Privacy Policies Unenforceable and Meaningless?” if was asked to me, I would say “ they should be not meaningless but sometimes it seems that they are meaningless”. Plaxo's Privacy Guy 'Stacy Martin' is doing an excellent job convincing people on to trust Plaxo and their privacy policy. She has sure convinced me that I can use it as well as recommend using Plaxo to others, but still there small particle of suspicion allways remains somewhere in the mind with so many bad ......