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Zeus is in the clouds…a security dilemma for Amazon

by Chris Orr

Apparently I am going to have to add Greek and Roman gods to my pantheon of characters inhabiting my verse. It seems that in the push for cloud computing, the fears of some have come true… According to Dancho Danchev here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5110&tag=nl.e550 a new variant of Zeus Crimeware is leveraging Amazon’s EC2 for control of [...]

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Really? A LinkedIn invite from Bill Gates? How cool am I!?

by Chris Orr

Seriously though…when an experimental phishing attack was tested against anti-spam and phishing filters it succeeded 100 percent of the time. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4791&tag=nl.e539 Can you imagine if it were real? I wonder how many people would really think that Bill Gates is taking personal time to send you (no matter how cool you think you are) an [...]

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