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Protection is free.

"Plizzz, give the key to anti-virus, ceased litsuha"! Who among us has not seen the mountains of such requests in the network? Some may even remember their similar requests. But what's behind them? Personal financial crisis? The contradictory desire to feel secure, safe to use hacked antivirals? There is no single answer will not let nobody, but you can definitely say that this is a mass delusion, of whom we'll try to get out. Do you, dear friends, that to date the number of illegal users of licensed software security exceeds the number of legitimate? This is anecdotal evidence, because officially confirm it until that very few people can, and even those who could officially confirm it, usually for one reason or another do not do. What is the problem, do anti-virus software and firewalls in fact so expensive that many people can not afford their own legally? No, no, no, it does not it. Just a mass of people everywhere and in all prefer that the well-advertised, to wha...

Banks under fire. Malware vs. financial companies

For many people the word "hacker" is associated with the word "bank". This is not surprising, because for several decades, crackers , who wanted to "get" a lot of money, paid his calculating gaze is on the banks. And this is understandable: what can give the most money, if not an attack on a major bank? But to break into servers that manage transactions and accounts, - a thankless task. It will attract too much attention, and attention increases the risk of being caught. So much more interesting to the attacker's just another option - it is to gain access to the assets of one bank's clients. Quite simply: less scale hacking - more likely to remain at large - inverse, speaking in mathematical language. This is where I would like today to stay. In this article I make out the following: the types and the work of malicious software that specializes in banks and other financial organizations, social engineering techniques used by hackers, attacks that a...

A software perspective

At the beginning of the new year, as in the last few weeks of last year, IT-community, Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional markets. However, most not so much of the software market as the entire software industry in the FSU. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate sometimes come to opposite conclusions. In 2007, Russia's retail software market grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover of Russia's software distribution software market in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion, the turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 Russia's software market has grown to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the CIS as a whole, is enough to increase Russia's performance in half. The structure of the net sales of packaged software in 2008, according to a study association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% of software sales account for corporate custome...

Silicon Valley and its "honest children"

The phrase "Silicon Valley" has long been a household word - today they represent any techno park, any isolated area, which are concentrated high-tech production and development. But those who use this expression, as a rule, themselves know little about the history of the very - first - the Silicon Valley. Let's try to fill this gap. University Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley) - District of California, high-density high-tech companies - in the first place, computer and telecommunications. Silicon Valley is located in the San Francisco Bay: in fact it is the space between the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today the main factors of this valley, a phenomenon called the presence of Stanford University and major cities within less than an hour away, sources of funding new companies, as well as superb Mediterranean-type climate. It all started back in 1891 when the valley near the town of Palo Alto as a bequest large landowner Lilenda Stanford opened Stanford Universi...