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Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection. Moheeb Abu Rajab, Lucas Ballard, Nav Jagpal, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Daisuke Nojiri, Niels Provos, Ludwig Schmidt. Google Technical Report rajab-2011a, July 2011 “Malicious web sites that compromise vulnerable computers are an ever-present threat on the web. The purveyors of these sites are highly motivated and quickly adapt to technologies that try …
A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators, Linda McCarthy, Keith Watson, and Denise Weldon-Siviy, August 2011. “This online guide explains how you can: Protect your Facebook account Avoid the scammers Use advanced security settings Recover a hacked Facebook account Stop imposters
Federal Computer Week: “Although Google+ has attracted more than 10 million users since its recent debut, many people in government are wondering what it is and how it ought to be used. Thanks to the Navy, now there is an overview of the new site. The Navy recently published a 13-page online guide titled Whats …
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President, Threat Research, McAfee: “An investigation of targeted intrusions into more than 70 global companies, governments, and non-profit organizations during the last five years.” “…the targeted compromises we are focused on known as advanced persistent threats (APTs) are much more insidious and occur largely without …
Americans and their cell phones – Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, 8/15/2011. “Mobile phones have become a near-ubiquitous tool for information-seeking and communicating: 83% of American adults own some kind of cell phone. These devices have an impact on many aspects of their owners daily lives. In a telephone survey conducted from April 26 to …
TeleNav survey examines Americans’ attachment to mobile phones; finds iPhone users are least willing to let go of their devices “Results of a recent national survey* commissioned by TeleNav, Inc. indicate that Americans are willing to give up some of life’s greatest pleasures in order to hang on to their mobile phones. Not surprisingly, smartphone …
Search and email still top the list of most popular online activities – Two activities nearly universal among adult internet users, by Kristen Purcell “A May 2011 Pew Internet survey finds that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, including 59% who do so on a typical day. This …
Haystack Logo…and how well hidden is YOUR needle? “Every password you use can be thought of as a needle hiding in a haystack. After all searches of common passwords and dictionaries have failed, an attacker must resort to a brute force search ultimately trying every possible combination of letters, numbers and then symbols until …
“Data (in)security is rapidly gaining consumer attention in major media. In 2011 major breaches at Sony, Epsilon and others have highlighted the risk consumers face from their data being compromised. Major corporations are now recognizing the urgency to implement strong and innovative security measures to ensure the security of their customers data. At the same …
Measuring Broadband America – A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S., FCCs Office of Engineering and Technology and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau “This Report presents results of the first nationwide performance study of residential wireline (or fixed, as opposed to mobile) broadband service in the United States using measurement technology deployed …
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation – John D. Moteff, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, July 11, 2011: “This report discusses in more detail the evolution of a national critical infrastructure policy and the institutional structures established to implement it. The report highlights five issues of Congressional concern: identifying critical assets; assessing vulnerabilities and …
Dr. Kari Kraus, University of Maryland, via NYT: “..if were going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we cant think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation. We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after its no …
