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Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From <endeca_term>Legitimate</endeca_term> Mail Server Machines

Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines

...a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier to separate EU machines from Legitimate Mail Server (LMS) machines, using a set of machine features that cannot... Read more

2 September, 2011
Non-Cooperative Games Between <endeca_term>Legitimate</endeca_term> Nodes and Malicious Coalitions in MANETs

Non-Cooperative Games Between Legitimate Nodes and Malicious Coalitions in MANETs

Security for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is a critical and thoroughly examined scientific area that has attracted... Read more

21 June, 2011

'Trojanised' Steamy Window targets Android phones

...smartphone. Symantec has identified a Trojan that piggybacks on versions of a legitimate app called Steamy Windows, and asks users for excessive permissions. Photo credit... Read more

1 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Fingerprint Based Gender Identification Using Frequency Domain Analysis

Fingerprint Based Gender Identification Using Frequency Domain Analysis

...Fingerprints are one of the most mature biometric technologies and are considered legitimate proofs of evidence in courts of law all over the world, relatively... Read more

1 March, 2012
Controlling IP Spoofing Through Inter-Domain Packet Filters

Controlling IP Spoofing Through Inter-Domain Packet Filters

...Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack is a serious threat to the legitimate use of the Internet. Prevention mechanisms are thwarted by the ability of... Read more

1 January, 2012
Botnets: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

Botnets: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets... Read more

21 December, 2011
Flash Demo: Oracle Database Vault: Privacy, Insider Threats, Compliance

Flash Demo: Oracle Database Vault: Privacy, Insider Threats, Compliance

Stolen credentials and insiders with legitimate access to application data who intentionally abuse, or accidentally misuse their privileges... Read more

1 December, 2011
A Mechanism for Recognition & Eradication of Gray Hole Attack Using AODV Routing Protocol in MANET

A Mechanism for Recognition & Eradication of Gray Hole Attack Using AODV Routing Protocol in MANET

...has no clear line of defense, so, it is accessible to both legitimate users and malicious attackers. Availability of network services, confidentiality and integrity of... Read more

26 November, 2011
A Novel Implementation of ARM Based Design of Firewall to Prevent SYN Flood Attack

A Novel Implementation of ARM Based Design of Firewall to Prevent SYN Flood Attack

Denial of service attacks prevents legitimate users from using a service. One particular type of this attack is... Read more

23 November, 2011
Statistical Segregation Method to Minimize the False Detections During DDoS Attacks

Statistical Segregation Method to Minimize the False Detections During DDoS Attacks

...attack aims at occupying the victim resources so as to defy the legitimate requests from reaching it. Even though the attack traffic is generated in... Read more

1 November, 2011
The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets... Read more

2 September, 2011
Detecting Intrusion on AODV Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by k-Means Clustering Method of Data Mining

Detecting Intrusion on AODV Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by k-Means Clustering Method of Data Mining

...has no clear line of defense so; it is accessible to both legitimate network nodes and malicious nodes. Some of the nodes may be selfish... Read more

15 July, 2011
Dynamic DNS - A Survey of the Abuse Mechanisms Affecting It and the Growing Problem for Network Defenders Defending Against Them

Dynamic DNS - A Survey of the Abuse Mechanisms Affecting It and the Growing Problem for Network Defenders Defending Against Them

Dynamic DNS although generally used to provide legitimate services has, like so many other technologies in use today, been exploited... Read more

5 July, 2011
Inter Domain Packet Filters for IP Spoofing Attacks

Inter Domain Packet Filters for IP Spoofing Attacks

...Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a serious threat to the legitimate use of the Internet. Even Prevention mechanisms are attacked by the ability... Read more

1 June, 2011
Lightweight and Effective Detection Scheme for Node Clone Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks

Lightweight and Effective Detection Scheme for Node Clone Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks

Legitimate sensor nodes may be captured by an adversary to extract important security... Read more

22 April, 2011

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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bobandroid

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

6 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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