Hackers change public safety message www.kxan.com AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of “zombies ahead.” “I thought it was pretty funny,” said University of Texas sophomore Jane Shin, who saw the signs while driving down Lamar Bouelvard with friends Sunday night. “We wondered who did it.” The City of Austin does not own the signs, but they are responsible for the message. The contractor on the construction project owns the signs. A city spokesperson said the hacked messages were only up for a few hours, until the construction project manager saw them during his morning commute and immediately ordered them to be changed back. “Even though this may seem amusing to a lot of people, this is really serious, and it is a crime,” said Austin Public Works spokesperson Sara Hartley. “And you can be indicted for it, and we want to make sure our traffic on the roadways stays safe.” Hartley said though it was a locked sign, the padlock for it was cut. Signs such as these have a computer inside that is password-protected. “And so they had to break in and hack into the computer to do it, so they were pretty determined,” said Hartley. This crime is a class C misdemeanor in Texas, and Hartley said it endangers the …

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Would you like the same quality of service in your health-care that you get at the local DMV?

Would you like the same quality of dis-service that our veterans are currently getting under government health-care?

I have WoW on my pc, which is a windows xp, and i want it to run faster. I am running disk degragmen, and disk cleanup. I just want to know how much spyware my computer is blocking so i know in the future to not download programs that might give me more spyware.

And as a bonus, plz answer this to: does windows defender really help block more spyware?

I was wondering what classes in high school and college you need to take to be a computer security programmer, a regular programmer or a network security specialist.

Please help!

Thank you

How PC Security 2009 Infects Your Computer

My Choice is:
1)Comodo Firewall – Firewall
2)Avast free Antivirus – real time protection and antivirus.
3)Threat Fire – An additional protection layer.
4)WOT for Firefox – For Browser protection
Also,
Malwarebites – No real time protection but i scan with this once a week.

I want to know why computer malwares were "invented" in the first place. Why would anyone do that? I really don’t understand.

I am wondering why someone would bother to make a computer virus. It is possible I am wondering this because I have no idea what viruses really do, so let me explain. I have always been under the impression that a computer virus is a program that someone designed to attack and harm a computer, but without any other real purpose. If that is what they are for, what is the point? Why would someone sit around and design something that damages something without getting any money or anything out of it? Or maybe viruses aren’t really designed to be bad? Just bad programming?

Thoughts?

Tom Gillis, vice president of Cisco’s Security Technology Business Unit, describes the benefits of the company’s new managed, hosted, and hybrid email security services for channel partners.