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Google Dashboard: Convenient, useful, but no big deal

As an enthusiastic Google user, I was immediately interested when I saw the headlines that proclaimed that Google was boosting its users' privacy with its new Dashboard. Well, as often happens, the reality wasn't quite up to the hype.

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Web filtering internationally, part 1: China

Chinese flagThis week on Security Levity... how China views Web filtering. It should be no surprise that the Chinese government is sensitive about certain forms of speech. We in the West may not like it, but...

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The fobbit

Lone on-site IT engineer at a small military base in the desert in Iraq is very gung-ho about doing his part, and he wants to be able to brag about his time ‘outside the wire' -- so he comes up with a novel excuse.

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Unlock/jailbreak new iPhone 3G software with #blackra1n app

Now you can jailbreak and unlock your iPhone -- even a 3G or 3GS with OS 3.1.2 or baseband 05.11.07. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers bow down and worship George "Geohot" Hotz. Not to mention really strange black & white photos...
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CIO: Clunky security biggest bugaboo in 2010

Think Windows PC security is a hassle? It's really not much better than that in enterprise data centers, says Scottrade CIO Ian Patterson. Security vendors, he says, need to step up their game.

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IObit accused of stealing from Malwarebytes

Software company Malwarebytes has accused IObit of stealing their intellectual property, in the form of the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware database. And, they offer proof.

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Is the Windows 7 adoption surge driven by piracy?

The surge of Windows 7 market share in October certainly sounds like good news for Microsoft. But Microsoft shouldn't celebrate so quickly, because there's evidence much of that gain has been driven by widespread piracy in Eastern Europe.

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Spam culture, part 3: Nigeria (and 419 scams)

This week on Security Levity... the second in a series of posts about spam in different cultures. This time: Nigeria, home of the 419 scam. We've all received advance-fee fraud come-ons: typically, badly-worded invitations to help a bank teller "liberate" money from a forgotten bank account. The basic idea is to gradually draw you into a web of lies, play on your greedy appetite for easy money, and then hit you for some "expenses"... or worse.

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Los Angeles goes Google; dumps GroupWise; shuns Microsoft; ignores IBM

The City of Los Angeles has had it with GroupWise, and will replace it with Google Apps. It's a big win for la GOOG, especially as it beat Microsoft to the deal. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers count how many angels can dance on a cloud.
(GOOG) (MSFT) Not to mention iPhone costumes...

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Your next stop ... the Password Zone

This nationwide retailer's help desk staff spend a lot of their time resetting users' passwords. And they try to be nice about it -- but sometimes it just doesn't help.

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Latest threat vector: Our mobile devices

Smart phone betrayal -- how they are being used to spy on their owners and reveal our most intimate of secrets. See what's being done, how it's being accomplished, and what you can do about it.

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Obama Drupal-ing around; whitehouse.gov goes open source

President Barack Obama's White House has chosen Drupal to run the whitehouse.gov Web site. They say George W. Bush's old CMS wasn't cutting it any longer. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers resist equating open source with socialism. Not to mention mugshot shirts...

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Testing Microsoft Security Essentials and the Hosts file

The new Security Essentials antivirus product from Microsoft has gotten a lot of first looks. Here I take a more detailed look at one aspect of it, defending the hosts file.

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Spammer trick of the month: Delayed DNS

This week on Security Levity... the delayed DNS hack. Spammers and botnet developers are an ingenious bunch. If spam wasn't so obnoxious and criminal, it would be easy to be impressed by some of their imaginative technical solutions.

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And things were going along so well, too

Newly hired pilot fish is issued a computer by a member of the IT staff. Great, says fish, now I can load the programs to interface with our test equipment. IT guy's reply: No, you can't.

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