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Cyveillance’s latest report, in part to promote their services, in part to alert of the problem of cybersquatting and typosquatting, is intended to alert business that the average large enterprise (although a large enterprise is not defined) suffers more than 5,000 suspicious domain name registrations each year that targets their “master” brand. And for companies with multiple brands, Cyveillance claim this can lead to “tens of thousands of suspicious domain registrations each year.”

The rest of the announcement plugs Cyveillance’s services with their claim that the suspicious domain registrations “has required security professionals and brand holders to manually track each new domain registration to determine whether the domain name gets returned or used on a malicious site. This very manual and labor intensive process can cost enterprises hundreds of lost man hours each year.” Cyveillance’s latest report, in part to promote their services, in part to alert of the problem of cybersquatting and typosquatting, is intended to alert business that the average large enterprise (although a large enterprise is not defined) suffers more than 5,000 suspicious domain name registrations each year that targets their “master” brand. And for companies with multiple brands, Cyveillance claim this can lead to “tens of thousands of suspicious domain registrations each year.”

The rest of the announcement plugs Cyveillance’s services with their claim that the suspicious domain registrations “has required security professionals and brand holders to manually track each new domain registration to determine whether the domain name gets returned or used on a malicious site. This very manual and labor intensive process can cost enterprises hundreds of lost man hours each year.”

To read the complete news release, see below:
Cyveillance Reports Large Enterprises Plagued by More Than 5,000 Suspicious Domain Registrations Each Year

Cyveillance Launches New Automated Domain Management Solution to Address Rise in Domain Name Churn

ARLINGTON , Va. , March 31, 2008 — Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence , today announced the release of Cyveillance Domain Manager TM , a comprehensive domain management system that enables users to centrally manage and monitor security threats posed by third-party domain registrations. Cyveillance Domain Manager tracks the full life cycle of each potentially fraudulent domain, significantly reducing the costs related to tracking domain name churn, which results in the re-registering of over 1 million suspicious domain names everyday. 1

Domain name churn is enabled by an ICANN policy loophole that allows third parties, particularly registrars, to register a domain name and then return or “drop” it for free within five days of the initial registration. This allows domain name abusers to test the domain name to determine how much traffic the name generates without making a financial commitment, a process often referred to as “domain tasting”. The five day grace period results in significant volumes of domain names being registered, returned, and then re-registered again.

According to Cyveillance, the average large enterprise is plagued by more than 5,000 suspicious domain registrations targeting their master brand each year. For companies managing multiple brands, this can mean tens of thousands of suspicious domain registrations each year. To date, this has required security professionals and brand holders to manually track each new domain registration to determine whether the domain name gets returned or used on a malicious site. This very manual and labor intensive process can cost enterprises hundreds of lost man hours each year.

Cyveillance Domain Manager is designed to classify new domain registrations, automatically isolating high risk registrations and providing ongoing monitoring to alert organizations when a domain gets used on a live malicious Web site. It greatly reduces the need for companies to monitor benign domain names that pose a low security risk, allowing organizations to focus resources on the highest impact brand offenses.

“The current domain registration environment enables criminals, pirates and unscrupulous advertisers to leverage a large number of domains without incurring any financial risk,” said Panos Anastassiadis, CEO of Cyveillance. “The resulting churn in domain names places a significant enforcement burden on enterprises. Cyveillance Domain Manager provides our customers with an automated solution that allows them to more accurately prioritize their enforcement efforts on the domains that pose the most significant risk; greatly reducing the resources, time and expense of fighting fraudulent domains . ”

Cyveillance Domain Manager is an integrated component of Cyveillance Intelligence Center TM , protecting both brand reputation and customer trust while lowering enforcement costs. Designed specifically to address constantly evolving threats on the Internet, the Cyveillance Intelligence Center is a unique, patented technology platform that allows stakeholders across the enterprise to proactively manage and mitigate online security threats.

About Cyveillance

Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, provides an intelligence-led approach to security. Through continuous, comprehensive Internet monitoring and sophisticated intelligence analysis, Cyveillance proactively identifies and eliminates threats to information, infrastructure, individuals and their interactions, enabling its customers to preserve their reputation, revenues, and customer trust. Cyveillance serves the Global 2000 and OEM Data Partners – protecting the majority of the Fortune 50, regional financial institutions nationwide, and more than 30 million global consumers through its partnerships with security and service providers that include AOL and Microsoft. For more information, visit www.cyveillance.com.

1. According to CADNA, the Coalition for Domain Name Abuse to Combat Cybersquatting, over 1 million domain names are re-registered every day.

This news release, and more information about Cyveillance, is available from http://cyveillance.com/web/news/press_rel/2008/2008-03-31.asp.

Bad day for DISH Network, first its satellite is gone for good and now comes word its appeal to overturn TiVo’s lawsuit has been denied. That should put an end to the legal push and pull between the companies, with TiVo firmly on top, DISH customers could have their DVRs pulled out from under them. Win in hand, TiVo has a lot more leverage against other providers to put its service on their boxes, (which might not be the worst thing if you’ve used some cable DVRs) and leaves the company looking a lot more lively.

soyurce:engadget

Are you tired of all those fancy iPhone cases? ‘Working Class Heroes” cases is one of the more original pouches you will ever come across. No expensive leather, no plastic, no glass. Just a pure simplicity of home crafted design.
It’s made in remote Austrian countryside, from natural wool. iPhone sleeve is featured in 3 styles: multi, hip and hold. Multi ($66) features extra pockets for credit cards, hip ($66) has belt loop and hold ($51) is simplest of them all.

If you are interested in purchasing on go to working class heroes website.

As you’ve probably figured out from all the OLPC XO and Intel Classmate news we’ve hit, computers aimed at students are a pretty hot topic these days. A Chicago-based nonprofit called Innovations for Learning has joined the fray with a new $50 entry dubbed the Teachermate. The small PCs come equipped with a 2.5-inch LCD display, 512MB of RAM, an SD slot, and built-in microphone and speaker. The systems are being rolled out to a whopping 500 Chicago elementary schools over the next two years, with the aim of having a unit in the hands of every child. The kid-friendly computers will come with a special case that allows charging and data-sync of 30 units at a time, allowing teachers to collect score-data quickly. If you absolutely must have one, it looks like they’re going to commercially available on Amazon, so you will be able to add it to your collection.

source:engadget.com

One of the McAfee Avert Labs bloggers Jimmy Shah has “found” the Denial of Service vulnerability in iPhones Safari browser that we first reported on over two weeks ago here on iPhone World.

“The researchers who found the vulnerability were looking for a method to unlock the file system on iPhones with the latest firmware (1.1.3). Unlocking the file system allows the installing of custom ringtones and third party applications. With the last firmware version you could automatically unlock your iPhone by visiting a particular website with the Mobile Safari browser,” he wrote.
The DoS vulnerability can be exploited by visiting the proof of concept page and clicking a button that will launch a warning and the exploit code will run. The iPhone is then unresponsive before rebooting a less than a minute later, he said.
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NEW YORK - Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill 1 billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.

Governments around the world collect more than $200 billion in tobacco taxes every year but spend less than one-fifth of 1 percent of that revenue on tobacco control, it said.

“We hold in our hands the solution to the global tobacco epidemic that threatens the lives of 1 billion men, women and children during this century,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in an introduction to the report.

The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 calls on all countries to dramatically increase efforts to prevent young people from beginning to smoke, help smokers quit and protect nonsmokers from exposure to second hand smoke.

It urges governments to adopt six “tobacco control policies” — raise taxes and prices of tobacco; ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; protect people from second hand smoke; warn people about the dangers of tobacco; help those who want to quit smoking; and monitor tobacco use to understand and reverse the epidemic.

Chan announced the report Thursday at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, helped fund it with a $2 million grant. The report examines the tobacco policies of 179 countries for the first time, Bloomberg said.

According to the report, nearly two-thirds of the world’s smokers live in 10 countries: China, which accounts for nearly 30 percent, India with about 10 percent, Indonesia, Russia, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany and Turkey.

It forecast that more than 80 percent of tobacco-related deaths will be in low- and middle-income countries by 2030.

Dr. Douglas Bettcher, director of WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative, said WHO estimates 5.4 million smoking-related deaths a year, rising to more than 8 million a year by 2030 if nothing is done. That adds up to 175 million between 2005 and 2030. Beyond that, he said, deaths will continue to rise and statistical projections put the death toll at near 1 billion by the end of the century.

Tobacco use is growing fastest in low-income countries, the report said, “due to steady population growth coupled with tobacco industry targeting, ensuring that millions of people become fatally addicted each year.”

It warned that “the shift of the tobacco epidemic to the developing world will lead to unprecedented levels of disease and early death in countries where population growth and the potential for increased tobacco use are highest and where health care services are least available.”

For the tobacco industry to survive, and keep existing customers hooked and attract new customers, “it spends tens of billions of dollars a year on advertising, promotion and sponsorship,” WHO said.

Michael Pfeil, vice president for communications for Lausanne, Switzerland-based Philip Morris International, said the company advocates “for tough, fair, cohesive regulation of the industry” and believes many countries need to do more. The company has operations in 160 countries.

He said regulations Philip Morris supports mirror some core provisions of the U.N. anti-smoking treaty that came into force last year. These include mandatory health warnings, restrictions on advertising including bans in some media, and minimum age laws for smoking, he said.

“We’re going to continue to spend money,” Pfeil said in a telephone interview. “I think we have a duty as a commercial entity to continue to grow our business, but … our interest is in marketing to adult smokers who are smoking competitive products.”

ISLAMABAD — Supporters of Benazir Bhutto reiterated their call for an independent international investigation into the death of the former Pakistani prime minister after a Scotland Yard probe reaffirmed the government’s original contention that she died of a head injury.

“We are not satisfied with the terms of investigation by the U.K. police,” said Sherry Rehman, a spokeswoman for Ms. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party. “We will continue our quest for an independent inquiry on the perpetrators of the crime.”
Investigators from London’s Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, concluded that Ms. Bhutto died of head injury caused by the impact of a suicide blast and not by gunfire, reaffirming Pakistan government’s initial position.

In a report released in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, on Friday, the U.K. investigators said Ms. Bhutto was thrown against a lever on her vehicle’s roof and that there was no bullet mark on her body. It said Ms Bhutto’s only apparent injury was a major trauma to the right side of the head and the investigators ruled out that the wound was result of a gunshot.

“The only tenable cause of her rapidly fatal head injury in this case is that it occurred as the result of impact due to the effect of the bomb blast,” the report said. . (Read the Scotland Yard statement.)

The finding matches the Pakistani government’s explanation of Ms Bhutto’s death following a campaign rally Dec. 27. Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said the investigation into the circumstances of Ms Bhutto’s death was completed, but said Pakistan could seek Scotland Yard’s help in a further probe on the perpetrators of the attack. Pakistan has blamed a militant tribal leader for masterminding the attack.

The report may heighten political tensions in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 18 that are designed to install a new prime minister and return Pakistan to democracy after nine years of military rule.

There was no post mortem on Ms. Bhutto’s body and the scene of the crime was hosed down within hours, compromising forensic evidence. Ms. Bhutto’s supporters have insisted that she died from a bullet and have accused President Pervez Musharraf of covering up his administration’s complicity. They have also called for an independent investigation by the United Nations. The demand was rejected by Mr. Musharraf, who denies his government was in any way involved in her murder.

TV pictures that emerged after Ms. Bhutto’s death appeared to show a gunman aiming a weapon at her as she stood through the escape hatch of her vehicle. The U.K. police report confirmed that shots were fired - but said they weren”t the cause of death.

The British inquiry also determined that the gunman who was spotted on the scene and the suicide bomber were the same person. “The body parts of only one individual remain unidentified,” the report said. It said the footage of the incident didn’t show the presence of any other potential bomber. The bombing suspect stood up to two meters from the vehicle, the investigators ascertained.

source:online.wsjISLAMABAD — Supporters of Benazir Bhutto reiterated their call for an independent international investigation into the death of the former Pakistani prime minister after a Scotland Yard probe reaffirmed the government’s original contention that she died of a head injury.

“We are not satisfied with the terms of investigation by the U.K. police,” said Sherry Rehman, a spokeswoman for Ms. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party. “We will continue our quest for an independent inquiry on the perpetrators of the crime.”
Investigators from London’s Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, concluded that Ms. Bhutto died of head injury caused by the impact of a suicide blast and not by gunfire, reaffirming Pakistan government’s initial position.

In a report released in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, on Friday, the U.K. investigators said Ms. Bhutto was thrown against a lever on her vehicle’s roof and that there was no bullet mark on her body. It said Ms Bhutto’s only apparent injury was a major trauma to the right side of the head and the investigators ruled out that the wound was result of a gunshot.

“The only tenable cause of her rapidly fatal head injury in this case is that it occurred as the result of impact due to the effect of the bomb blast,” the report said. . (Read the Scotland Yard statement.)

The finding matches the Pakistani government’s explanation of Ms Bhutto’s death following a campaign rally Dec. 27. Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said the investigation into the circumstances of Ms Bhutto’s death was completed, but said Pakistan could seek Scotland Yard’s help in a further probe on the perpetrators of the attack. Pakistan has blamed a militant tribal leader for masterminding the attack.

The report may heighten political tensions in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 18 that are designed to install a new prime minister and return Pakistan to democracy after nine years of military rule.

There was no post mortem on Ms. Bhutto’s body and the scene of the crime was hosed down within hours, compromising forensic evidence. Ms. Bhutto’s supporters have insisted that she died from a bullet and have accused President Pervez Musharraf of covering up his administration’s complicity. They have also called for an independent investigation by the United Nations. The demand was rejected by Mr. Musharraf, who denies his government was in any way involved in her murder.

TV pictures that emerged after Ms. Bhutto’s death appeared to show a gunman aiming a weapon at her as she stood through the escape hatch of her vehicle. The U.K. police report confirmed that shots were fired - but said they weren”t the cause of death.

The British inquiry also determined that the gunman who was spotted on the scene and the suicide bomber were the same person. “The body parts of only one individual remain unidentified,” the report said. It said the footage of the incident didn’t show the presence of any other potential bomber. The bombing suspect stood up to two meters from the vehicle, the investigators ascertained.

source:online.wsj

Actress Scarlett Johansson and jazz legend Herbie Hancock sing lines in the music video, created by Will.I.Am from pop group Black Eyed Peas.

The rapper was inspired to create the song, Yes We Can, after the Democratic candidate spoke in New Hampshire.

“That speech effected and touched my inner core like nothing in a very long time,” Will.I.Am said.

The result was produced in two days and has been watched by millions of internet users.

Others participants include R&B singer John Legend, rapper Common, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CSI star Adam Rodriquez and Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger.

Obama approval

Will.I.Am explained: “It was as if he was talking to and defending everything that made me who I am.

“I took that speech, and I wanted everyone else to be inspired by that speech as I was.”

It has gone down well with Mr Obama.

The candidate has had it posted on his website and personally recommended it to journalists following his campaign.

But Will.I.Am said Mr Obama’s team has not been in touch personally: “They have more important things than to be contacting me to say thank you.

“If they had time to call me, I’d be panicking.”

Four years ago, the Black Eyed Peas supported Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
source:news.bbc.co.uk

WASHINGTON - Three days after the voting ended, the race for Democratic delegates in Super Tuesday’s contests was still too close to call. With nearly 1,600 delegates from Tuesday contests awarded, Sen. Barack Obama led by two delegates Friday night, with 91 delegates still to be awarded. Obama won 796 delegates in Tuesday’s contests, to 794 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to an analysis of voting results by The Associated Press.
 
In the Republican contest, Sen. John McCain had a commanding lead in the race for delegates.

Nearly a third of the outstanding delegates are from Colorado, a state where Obama won the popular vote. California, a state that Clinton carried, had 20 Democratic delegates still to be awarded. Neither state expected to have complete results before next week.

Obama won the popular vote in 13 states Tuesday, while Clinton won in eight states and American Samoa.

In the overall race for the nomination, Clinton has 1,055 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Obama has 998.

A total of 2,025 delegates are need to secure the Democratic nomination.

Many delegates were outstanding because some states have been unable to provide all the votes in some congressional districts. The problems arose in states with counties that are split into multiple congressional districts.

The states have provided results in each county. But in some cases, they are still working to assign the votes in the appropriate congressional district.

Those votes are important because both parties award delegates based on statewide votes and on results in individual congressional districts. Democrats award them proportionally, meaning precise counts can be necessary, even when the vote is overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate.

In California, officials were still counting absentee ballots Friday. Officials had estimated that more than 1 million absentee ballots may have been submitted.

In Tuesday’s Republican contests, McCain won 617 delegates to 205 for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who suspended his campaign on Thursday. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won 155 and Rep. Ron Paul won 10. There are still 36 Republican delegates to be awarded from Tuesday’s contests.

In the overall race for the nomination, McCain leads with 719, to 198 for Huckabee and 14 for Paul. Romney’s suspended campaign still has 298 delegates.

A total of 1,191 delegates are needed to secure the Republican nomination.

The AP tracks the delegate races by projecting the number of national convention delegates won by candidates in each presidential primary or caucus, based on state and national party rules, and by interviewing unpledged delegates to obtain their preferences.

In some states, like Iowa and Nevada, local precinct caucuses are the first stage in the allocation process. The AP uses preferences expressed in those caucuses to project the number of national convention delegates each candidate will have when they are chosen at county, congressional district or state conventions.

source:news.yahoo