Monthly Archives: October 2009
Dangerous WWW: in 3Q’09 nearly 6 million pwnd!
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October 27, 2009
Number of infected web pages is increasing significantly Dasient web security firm of Palo Alto, Calif., published some dismal numbers on its blog today. The number of infected pages on the web increased significantly in the third quarter and more …
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Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace
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Conventional wisdom has always told us that when it comes to deciding what users should be allowed to do, the correct choice would be to allow access only to what they need to do, or more accurately, to allow the …
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Halloween malware: we’ll show you scary
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Three of the biggest malware threats that were around during Halloween 2008 remain highly active in the public domain 12 months later, according to data collected by Sunbelt Labs. Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec, Trojan-Downloader.braviax and Explorer32.Hijacker all remain in Sunbelt’s top 10 malware …
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Tinfoil hat time: U.S. spy agencies buy into web monitoring firm
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October 26, 2009
We expect our spy agencies to… well… spy, but somehow it’s a little disquieting when you discover they might be spying on YOUR blog posts and Tweets. Wired has broken a story that the investment agency of the CIA and …
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Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?
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A very annoying occurrence that I sometimes suffer is when all of a sudden the copy and paste function stops working when I am connected to a remote machine. Turns out the problem is coming from a little process called …
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Search terms lead to malware? Yeah
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October 25, 2009
It’s become the latest craze in security blogs — show how search for a celebrity or current event leads to malware through Google searches. I’ve done it myself, quite a bit. And I do think it provides a public service. …
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Nigeria begins crackdown on email scams.
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October 23, 2009
Farida Waziri, head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has announced that her agency, aided by Microsoft, has begun a large-scale crackdown on the email scammers who have made Nigeria infamous to Internet users for 20 years. Waziri, speaking …
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Nine GFI products support Microsoft’s latest platforms
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We are pleased to announce that nine of our products now support Microsoft’s latest platforms – Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These new platforms have been designed to improve upon performance, applicability, device compatibility, reliability, security and battery …
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The Dangers of Social Networking
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October 22, 2009
Social sites such as Facebook and MySpace are a big hit nowadays; not just with the young generation but with people of all ages. It’s an amazing platform for people to connect but it certainly isn’t without its dangers. As …
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Windows 7 distributed in UK early
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October 21, 2009
CNET UK is reporting that copies of Windows 7 have been mailed to customers in the UK several days before the official release date (tomorrow). According to the CNET UK blog, Microsoft allowed it in anticipation of a postal strike …
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