Day: May 18, 2006

Keylogger spying at work on the rise, survey says – CNET News.com

Keylogger spying at work on the rise, survey says | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The number of companies reporting a spyware infestation has increased by almost half in the past 12 months, according to a new survey. In addition, 17 percent of companies with more than 100 employees have spyware such as a keylogger on their networks, said the authors of the annual Websense Web@Work survey, published on Tuesday. “This is almost 50 percent growth in the instances of keyloggers that organizations are reporting back,” said Joel Camissar, a manager for Internet

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Online bettors revealed – Perspectives | CNET News.com

Online bettors revealed | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link No longer do people need to wade through clouds of smoke and suffer the noise and commotion of casinos to place their bets. Instead, more and more, people are gambling online. While a recent survey report by the American Gaming Association documents that only 4 percent of Americans currently gamble using the Internet, this form of “entertainment” has transformed “from barely registering with the public and elected officials to being a major story in the nation’s media and the subject of intense

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Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer – CNET News.com

Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack. Blue Security, a company that provided antispam software and was widely praised for orchestrating a kind of do-it-yourself campaign to spam spammers, has “ceased all antispam operations,” said Sandra Fathi, a spokeswoman for the company. The surrender comes after the company’s Web site, along with those of many of its partners, were hobbled

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