| Aug 20, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Facebook addicts 'cost employers billions' |
It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether one's PC has been broken into and turned into a zombie, according to an internet security company.
Comodo cited a recent article that app... |
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| Aug 20, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Google Gadget 'could be misused' |
The Google Gadget application could potentially be used for phishing by cyber criminals, according to an internet researcher.
Robert Hansen recently told Google that hackers could devise site... |
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| Aug 20, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Facebook addicts 'cost employers billions' |
Workers surfing the social networking site Facebook are costing billions of dollars in lost time, according to research by an internet security firm.
Up to $4 billion a year is being lost by ... |
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| Aug 20, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Skype 'back to normal' |
After a bug took the popular internet calling service Skype offline for at least two days, the company is now saying that the service is working smoothly again.
At the time Skype described th... |
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| Aug 17, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Fake IRS emails phish for victims |
Emails pretending to be from the IRS are being sent out over the internet, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune.
However, the emails are in fact phishing scams trying to lure their recipients into ... |
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| Aug 17, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Couple name child for internet symbol |
A Chinese couple has decided to name their child @, the distinctive symbol used in email addresses, according to the deputy chief of the Chinese State Language Commission, Li Yuming.
Li said ... |
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| Aug 17, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Simpsons movie pirated |
A pirated version of the new Simpsons movie, which was just released earlier this month, has already turned up on the web, it has been reported.
The movie originated in a home in Australia, w... |
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| Aug 17, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Skype hit by bug |
The popular internet calling service Skype has been hit by a bug that has caused it to go offline in certain regions, it has been reported.
Many users in Europe and the Americas were unable t... |
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| Aug 17, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Symantec releases latest data storage tool |
The security software giant Symantec has unveiled the latest version of its data protection product aimed at businesses.
Veritas NetBackup 6.5 offers continuous data protection, data ded... |
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| Aug 16, 2007 16:00:00 |
| RSA: Man in the middle attacks to spike |
There is to be an increase in man in the middle (MITM) phishing attacks in the future, according to the internet security company RSA, reports Computer Weekly.
An MITM attack features a fake ... |
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| Aug 16, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Sex enhancement drugs spam on the rise |
Image spam and spam touting sexual enhancement drugs are both increasing in frequency, according to the security software firm BitDefender.
This kind of spam in increasing so much that it is ... |
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| Aug 16, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Verizon to provide broadband in rural areas |
The communication giant Verizon has announced that it is to expand its broadband offerings into rural areas of West Virginia.
Currently, many of the more mountainous rural areas of the state ... |
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| Aug 16, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Internet 'is a battleground against extremism' |
New York's police commissioner has said that the internet hosts ideas that could turn westerners into terrorists.
Raymond Kelly referred to the internet as "the new Afghanistan"... |
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| Aug 16, 2007 16:00:00 |
| DirecTV to offer broadband over phone lines |
The IPTV company DirecTV has struck a deal with the Current Group that will result in the availability of broadband being delivered over phone lines.
Consumers will be able to a buy a package... |
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| Aug 15, 2007 13:38:40 |
| Verizon offers mobile banking |
The communication giant Verizon has announced that it has teamed up with Bank of America to offer mobile banking.
Verizon customers who have signed up the company's Mobile Web 2.0 service wil... |
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| Aug 15, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Spam surge 'originates in China' |
There has been a significant rise in the amount of spam emails from the .cn domain according to the security software company Symantec.
The .cn domain is China's top level domain.
Ho... |
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| Aug 15, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Microsoft releases important bundle of patches |
A set of nine patches aimed at securing 14 bugs has been released by the software giant Microsoft.
The company has stated that six of the patches fix weaknesses that are "critical" ... |
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| Aug 15, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Microsoft delves into advertising |
Digital marketing company aQuantive has been bought by Microsoft for $6 billion, it has been announced.
The move signifies Microsoft's first foray in to the world of internet advertising, a s... |
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| Aug 14, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Yahoo! comes out on top in user satisfaction |
A recent user satisfaction survey conducted in the US resulted in Yahoo! beating out its search engine rival Google.
In the University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ASCI... |
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| Aug 14, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Spam and phishing attacks grow |
The SonicWALL database has shown that the amount of spam, phishing and virus attacks continues to grow steadily.
SonicWALL, a software security company based in Sunnvale, California, can acce... |
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| Aug 14, 2007 16:00:00 |
| LG launches multimedia phone through AT&T |
The electronics giant LG has chosen AT&T to be the exclusive carrier for its cutting-edge new Trax multimedia phone.
Measuring four inches by two inches, the clamshell-configured device w... |
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| Aug 14, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Facebook source code exposed |
Part of the source code of the highly popular social networking site Facebook was leaked onto the internet over the weekend, it has been reported.
The source code is a group of commands which... |
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| Aug 14, 2007 16:00:00 |
| McAfee VirusScan supports Windows XP Embedded |
Security software company McAfee has announced that its product VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i is now able to work with the Windows XP Embedded system.
This means that the software can be used in ... |
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| Aug 13, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Sophos product rated over McAfee and Symantec |
Sophos' endpoint solution has been rated more highly than its McAfee and Symantec counterparts.
Cascadia Labs carried out extensive tests on all the products and found that Sophos' was superi... |
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| Aug 13, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Microsoft lobbies for use of TV airwaves |
Software giant Microsoft will today attempt to convince the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let unused TV airwaves, called white spaces, be used to beam wireless internet, reports the ... |
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| Aug 13, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Kidnapped farmer urges internet love caution |
After being held hostage for 12 days in Mali, an Australian farmer has told those seeking love on the internet to be careful.
Wheat and sheep farmer Des Gregor, 56, went to Mali to meet a wom... |
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| Aug 13, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Internet chatter results in heightened security |
Internet chatter about a dirty bomb threat from Al Qaeda resulted in police setting up checkpoints with radiological monitoring equipment in New York City over the weekend.
The action was tak... |
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| Aug 13, 2007 16:00:00 |
| Computer flaw at LAX results in chaos |
A computer glitch at LAX over the weekend resulted in mayhem for thousands of passengers.
Approximately 17,000 passengers were delayed when a computer that checks the security background of f... |
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