Pidgin 2.7.0 Released

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WEB BROWSERS LEAVE 'FINGERPRINTS' BEHIND AS YOU SURF THE NET

New research by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of
web browsers have unique signatures -- creating
identifiable "fingerprints" that could be used to track you
as you surf the Internet.

EFF Research Shows More Than 8 in 10 Browsers Have Unique,
Trackable Signatures.

The findings were the result of an experiment EFF conducted
with volunteers who visited http://panopticlick.eff.org/.
The website anonymously logged the configuration and
version information from each participant's operating
system, browser, and browser plug-ins -- information that
websites routinely access each time you visit -- and
compared that information to a database of configurations
collected from almost a million other visitors. EFF found
that 84% of the configuration combinations were unique and
identifiable, creating unique and identifiable browser
"fingerprints." Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins
installed were 94% unique and trackable.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf

If you feel any kind of attack on your system/server:
Contact the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at cert@cert.org about the attack so that they can track the incidents. The CERT Coordination Center charter is to work with the Internet community to facilitate its response to computer security events involving Internet hosts, to take proactive steps to raise the community's awareness of computer security issues, and to conduct research targeted at improving the security of existing systems.

World Cyber War

The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks in another words U. S. not winning cyber war.

More than 100 foreign spy agencies were working to gain access to U.S. computer systems, as were criminal organizations, said James Miller, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy.

Terrorist groups also had cyber attack capabilities.

"Our systems are probed thousands of times a day and scanned millions of times a day," Miller told a forum sponsored by Ogilvy Washington, a public relations compa

He said the evolving cyber threat had "outpaced our ability to defend against it."

"We are experiencing damaging penetrations -- damaging in the sense of loss of information. And we don't fully understand our vulnerabilities," Miller said.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3881921/US-Not-Winning-Cyber-War.htm

"Avalanche's(Single Gang Dominated Two-third Phishing Attacks in 2009)

A group of sophisticated and proficient hackers known as the "Avalanche" gang was responsible for setting up and operating more than two-thirds of the 126,000-plus fake Web sites designed to steal Internet users' credit card numbers, bank account information and infect their PCs with malware. Through the use of sophisticated malware and phishing tactics, the group was singlehandedly responsible for the ominous increase in worldwide phishing attacks in the last six months of 2009, according to a report (PDF format) released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of Web retailing, software, security and financial firms.

Researchers said the Avalanche group is by far the world's most prolific phishing operation because its members managed to perfect a two-pronged system that simultaneously deploys mass-producing phishing sites while also distributing malware that gives the crooks even more tools to pull off their scams.

"The data shows that the anti-phishing community -- including the target institutions, security responders, and domain name registries and registrars -- got very good at identifying and shutting down Avalanche's attacks on a day-to-day basis," said Rod Rasmussen, founder and CTO of Internet Identity and a co-author of the report.

To trace an IP

• http://en.utrace.de/
• http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/
• http://www.tracemyip.org/
• http://aruljohn.com/track.pl?host=209.85.211.171

Email Forensic

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