Become a cyber-warrior for your country

Fox News came up with an interesting story about how a number of defense contractors and other IT companies are actively recruiting for cyber-warriors to defend the US.

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Eugene Kaspersky offers theory on stopping cybercrime

US journalist Karen Lodrick managed to scoop her colleagues at the 10th annual Kaspersky Lab virus analyst summit last week with an interview with CEO Eugene Kaspersky, who offered his theory for stopping cybercrime.

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Marshal8e6 intros hosted secure encrypted email service

Orange, California-based Marshal8e6 has launched a hosted email encryption service for business to consumer (B2C) communications. Delivered in partnership with ZixCorp, the service is billed as a logical extension to MailMarshal SMTP.

For more see Marshal8e6's site...

Hacking Oracle's database will soon get easier

The Washington Post reports that hackers will soon gain a powerful new tool for breaking into Oracle's database, courtesy of the development team behind the Metasploit project.

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Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam

ZDNet's Sam Diaz has come up with this rather insulting headline for a diatribe that concludes Americans are largely to blame for the spam epidemic on the Internet.

For more see Sam's blog on ZDNet here...

Boston Police using Twitter and Facebook to track bike thieves

Mashable reports that the local police department are using social networking sites and services to respond rapidly to the growing problem of bike thieves. One hopes the police are using the services securely.

For more see the Mashable report here...