From alleged poisonings to organized crime, Russia has been getting a lot of bad press lately. But this time the country — or at least, the government — may be in the clear.
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First of all, there is something that I meant to discuss a few weeks ago that surprisingly has not got much coverage. Art Medlar, a fellow inhabitant of a mail list I subscribe to explained that he is a client of TD Ameritrade, and being a cautious kind of guy he used unique primary and alternate e-mail aliases for his account.
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Looking to extend its RSA division’s authentication product line, EMC Corp. has purchased identity verification services vendor Verid Inc.
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When a recent hacking contest won security researcher Dino Dai Zovi a $10,000 award for breaking into a MacBook Pro computer by exploiting a flaw hed discovered, the contest reignited a long-simmering debate over responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities.
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All the news, opinions, and reader reaction over the hottest controversy yet.
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VeriSign Monday plans to announce the expansion of its managed security services offerings to include support for wireless LAN intrusion prevention.
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As our network continues to grow, we are trying have standards as to reserving certain port numbers for access points, certain ones for printers, etc. Another challenge is to prevent ports from being used without proper authorization.
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“We’ve seen some incremental steps in the right direction”

Search terms related to technology and digital music are most likely to return Internet sites with spyware, adware and spam associated with them, a new study finds. via Star Tribune
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This post isn’t all that spam-related, but I think it’s an important topic because it represents a fundamental trend.

I’ve always said (well, I say it sometimes),thatifIwasn’tinvolvedintheanti-spamindustry,otherthanthestocktradingarena,mynextindustryofchoicewouldbesomethingtodowithWeb2.0.IcameacrossagoodintroductoryarticletoWeb2.0here. I like the summary of the internet phenomenom, now all it has to do is start making money.

Both ourselves (Exchange Hosted Services) and Hotmail make use of Web 2.0 concepts in our spam filtering, although we piggyback off of Hotmail, they didn’t borrow it from us. End-users volunteer to classify mail into spam and not-spam and the filtering algorithm learns from these classifications to classify future messages. I call it Pseudo-Bayesian for lack of a better term as it based on probability. Granted, users don’t own the content nor do they own the filtering algorithm, but they do own the “material” for generating the decision.

For example, if one person classifies a message as non-spam but 75 others say it’s spam, then the algorithm calls it spam. So, this lets users (a lot of them) own the decision on spam classification. The weakness, as I’ve pointed out in the past, is that users are not particularly accurate. This is fine for an okay spam filter but insufficient for a great one.

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Laurels to the guardrails that separate northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate 85. via Salisbury Post
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Ive always loved the idea of pens that work with your computer, either transcribing our hand-written notes, or faithfully reproducing our drawings on our computer, but the promise has always dwarfed the reality. Is LiveScribe different? LiveScribe, launched at last…
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