Thursday, April 24th, 2008
AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wish list two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
(Source: Sunbelt Software) The volume of spam e-mails sent has increased exponentially during recent years, and so has the cost of dealing with that spam. This paper will examine the ways in which spam can impact an organization's profits and outline the criteria to consider when choosing an anti-spam ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
CAPTCHAs are becoming both ubiquitous and useless. When you visit many web sites, you have to decipher some tough-to-read text and enter it in a box before you can leave a comment or send an email. But hackers are getting better and better at developing automated systems to crack CAPTCHAs, ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Almost everyone knows what CSRF or better unauthorized requests are. I never really embraced CSRF as the correct term for unauthorized request issues, because the term is outdated and inadequate to contemporary hacking. For me, an unauthorized request is the layer or automation of a hacking procedure without direct interference ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Storwize has developed a new range of in-line data compression appliances which it claimed can compress files at up to 500MB/s, doubling or even tripling the effective capacity of a NAS array.
The three new systems are 64-bit, meaning they can use far more memory than the company's previous models. That ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Wireless security vendors used last week's conference here to showcase both the problems and solutions in controlling access to wireless voice and data.
AirTight Networks launched SpectraGuard Online, touted as wireless security's first manifestation of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that more vendors -- and a few cyber criminals -- are using.
In ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Over the last few years, security researchers have estimated that fake messages from PayPal and its parent company, eBay, make up more than half of all the spam sent over the Internet. So why, you may ask, isn't PayPal doing something about it?
Last week at the RSA 2008 conference ...
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