Can Microsoft save us from the phisers

Can Microsoft Save the Net?  – Wired

Working late one night a few months back, I was just about to sign off when I decided to check my email. At the top of my inbox was a message from PayPal, “confirming” a change in my email address. But I hadn’t changed the address. In an exhausted panic, I clicked the link to correct an obvious fraud.For a split second the browser opened not to PayPal but to an unrelated IP address. Then, almost instantaneously, the screen was replaced by what looked exactly like a PayPal window, requesting my password to sign in. This wasn’t PayPal; it was a phishing bot. Had I been just a little drowsier, I might have been snagged by the fraud in the very act of trying to stop it.

Spotlight on govt IT security – ITWeb

Spotlight on govt IT security – ITWeb

The eSecurity and eCrime Thought Leadership Forum, addressing IT vulnerabilities in the government, begins tomorrow in Vanderbijlpark.advertisement
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The two-day event will feature security experts from the South African Police Service, the State IT Agency and the corporate sector.

“With 10 new vulnerabilities reported every day, it is a full-time job for government to just patch up the cracks in security infrastructure, let alone take a proactive approach,” notes Kenny Nkosi, public sector executive manager at Faritec, who will address the forum.

MS Anti-Spyware Deleting Norton Anti-Virus – (washingtonpost.com)

Security Fix – Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security – (washingtonpost.com)

Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft’s anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it.According to several different support threads over at Microsoft’s user groups forum, the latest definitions file from Microsoft “(version 5805, 5807) detects Symantec Antivirus files as PWS.Bancos.A (Password Stealer).”

Access restricted web sites using Google as a proxy » AviDardik.com

Access restricted web sites using Google as a proxy » AviDardik.com

This is a great hack. Say you work in a company that blocks Web surfing to certain Web sites.
O’Reilly posted a super-cool tip about using Google translation services as a kind of Web proxy and bypass this limitation!
You just need to type the following URL:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.SomeForbiddenSite.com

What you’ll get is the translation (English to English!) of the page you want to see…
Your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won’t be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what’s the content.

This may be a great hack, but as an IO this is really bad news for some of my users… no more full access to google for you :p