Have you been following Microsoft’s plans for IE7? I have, and a blog post I read about their anti-phishing plans just about made me spit out my coffee.
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Webroot has lately been producing a series of quarterly statistics on infection rates for four types of badness:
Adware Trojan horses—botnet software falls into this category System monitors—includes key loggers Tracking cookies Now, one could certainly raise objections about selection bias.
Security shouldn’t be an endless patch-and-pray exercise. Metrics offer a way out.
Scobleizer points out that the WS ReliableMessaging specification has been submitted to OASIS.
With all due respect to the incredibly bright folks at the WS-I, I find the world of web services standards to be rather confusing.
Most people know that the dominant computing platform has a little problem with security. It’s a little problem with big consequences. Recently, research firm IDC released a report indicating that two thirds of PCs—including those deployed within companies—are affected by some sort of spyware.