Content and Website Abuse

Creativity is what spurred the growth of the laptop or computer business and technology. Challenges were met and new frontiers conquered through sharp-edged innovations and competition. Sadly, over the years modest companies like Microsoft grew into giants and then lost their thirst for adventure.   They deliberately hid their proprietary source code and this stunted innovation. Like a drug peddlers they have developed a “Microsoft” addiction among pc users. And, then utilized the dependency to charge exorbitant prices.  

Since Microsoft does not think in promoting open source technologies even with intellectual property protection it hampers the quicker development of technologies and discourages others from even attempting improvements or changes. In blunt terms , Microsoft functions like the Chicago thugs did early this century. It maintains a strangle hold on PC users and sellers and creates strategies that prevent hardware manufacturers from using systems like Netscape.

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A lot more than ever, the workplace has grow to be a hotbed of legal battles where employees are suing businesses, businesses are suing contractors, and workers are suing companies and contractors. If you want to protect yourself and your business from this occurrence, you will will need to be armed with the proper legal documents. Documents like employment policies and procedures, equipment lease agreements, a construction health and safety policy, and construction equipment leases are the kinds of documents that can be important to your enterprise.

You and your organization are responsible for the well-being of your employees, both morally and legally. If you have written employment policies and procedures in location with appropriate behavior and guidelines made clear to your employees, your company will be better protected. With these documents for example, occurrences of employee drug and alcohol misuse, pc, e-mail, Internet and communications abuses, and charges of on-the-job sexual harassment, can be avoided.

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Trend Micro’s threat research revealed that Koobface botnet is abusing Google Reader by spamming URLS redirecting World wide web users to infected sites by means of Youtube.

Google Reader is a Google-owned free of charge service permitting users to monitor and share web sites for new content. Koobface has been spamming URLs on social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Koobface is spamming Google Reader now. A Google account is made and controlled by Koobface gang, hosting a page with a fake YouTube video. As the victim clicks the fake video, it will redirect to a compromised website, which also hosts another fake YouTube video. The user will be infected and becomes part of the Koobface botnet. Attackers use Google Reader’s to share links and messages between users to host an image resembling a Flash video. When the user tries to view the video, it will redirect to a fake YouTube page containing a video. As in previous attacks, the user was soon prompted with an alert that invited them to upgrade their Flash player. Hidden was the reality that instead of the updated software, the user was downloading the Koobface downloader component that would that take over the victim’s personal computer.

Trend Micro, the IT security vendor, has reported Koobface to Google for spamming far more than 1300 known and unique fake Google Reader accounts. Nowadays, cybercriminals take advantage of Google due to the fact of its credibility that they hide malicious links behind Google Reader.

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