2007.02.12 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Feb.12, 2007, under Security
Yapbrowser: Directing you to Illegal Content
Web-browsers. They’re all around you, on every PC across the length and breadth of the planet, yet you probably don’t stop to think about them too much. Why would you? They’re just there, and that’s all that matters, like the mouse or the keyboard – a tool you just plug in to do something else, without worrying about what they happen to be doing internally.
Cisco going open source with NAC client
As it develops the next-generation of network security infrastructure, Cisco Systems Inc. is planning to cease development on its network admission control (NAC) client, the Cisco Trust Agent (CTA), and submit the source code for the software client to the open-source community.
Investigative reporter Kim Zetter spent a year probing the life of David Thomas, a high-tech grifter who became an FBI asset. In interviews with Thomas, his girlfriend, his associates in the underground and federal agents on the cybercrime beat, Zetter pieced together the strange world of the "boards," online bazaars where crooks and swindlers work together to scam everyone else.
Price of cybercrime tools shrinks
It’s becoming cheaper and easier to get hold of the tools needed to launch a cybercrime attack.
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