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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Circle of Computing Life

ChiefTech

Sunday, 1 July 2007 The Circle of Computing Life I came across a great book a few weekends ago, called A Computer Called LEO , that tells the story of the first computer to be used by business. The first LEO or ""Lyons Electronic Office" consisted of: " 5,936 valves, plus another 300-400 in auxiliary equipment.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Explosion of electronic touch points

ChiefTech

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 Explosion of electronic touch points I received an email today from someone and, as you typically find in a business email, the senders signature block included their contact details. blog I work at Headshift , a social media and social computing consultancy, as a Senior Business & Technical Consultant.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Why we need knowledge management.

ChiefTech

Owing to a fault in the electronic information system, many drivers are sent through the Hampshire hamlet only to find the lane narrows to 6ft and they get stuck." blog I work at Headshift , a social media and social computing consultancy, as a Senior Business & Technical Consultant.

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate Intranet - 20th September

ChiefTech

You might like to suggest to Key Forums that an electronic copy of the conference brochure (listing speakers and topics) on their website would have been a good idea instead of the e-mail link to request a conference brochure! You might want to consider enabling it via slideshare. Cheers, Craig Thomler 7:38 PM Brad said.