Security - It's Not Just For Geeks
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 08:19
Ars Technica has an excellent series of articles about user security and why it's important for you to take security seriously, and why it's not just one of those "silly little things" that you leave for the geeks to worry about.
One of the most recent articles is about an incident with a major botnet. Apparently, the creators of the botnet decided to hit the "big red button" which brought roughly 100,000 Windows machines to their knees in bluescreen madness.
Now it's likely that they did this to allow themselves time to exploit the stolen banking information of their victims. Then again, there may be other reasons as well. Either way, a lot of people will soon be out of a lot of money, and that is before taking into account the cost rebuilding all of computers. There is also the matter of any data lost due to lack of backups.
The fact that all these machines were running Windows is irrelevant.
Microsoft internet security change on the net ? A captured hack
As we all know, the atm synchronization(zero wait state) prevents hackers from jamming into your computer. When hackers jam in, zero wait state cuts off the hacker's attempt. A website not found message appears.
This is the same as BSOD on desktop application. Wait state rejects data due to hardware malfunction on cpu overheating.
The latest change as of today, Microsoft had a captured hacker's webpage shown temporarily on your screen. A notification that IE6.0 can not open the webpage. Then returns a website not found message. Refresh will return the webpage you previously desired.
Now, if only Microsoft also initiates a hacker alert message back to Redmond, then they can protect identity theft on the net? This is an interesting development for the next six months to be watched?
This software will be valuable for banks and credit card transactions?