Archive for the ‘SECURITY’ Category
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Kaspersky signed a deal with Bit9 Inc., "the leading provider of application control and device control solutions" in a move meant to make its security technologies more powerful when
it comes to computer protection. Bit9 owns a 4 billion files database including "commercial applications, open-source software, drivers, libraries, and malware" but ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Internet Explorer and Firefox are in a constant race for both the lion's share of the browser market and for the top dog position when it comes down to which of the two products is more locked down from a security perspective. In terms of audience Internet Explorer has little ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Security company Sophos rolled out the report concerning the spam evolution in the third quarter of the year, revealing that the United States won the first position with 28.4 points. This means that "almost one in three of all the world's spam emails is being sent through a compromised US ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
The rivalry between the media giant Viacom and the other giant Google started since MTV's owner sued the Mountain View company for copyright infringement, requiring $1 billion in damages. Since then, Google has struggled to improve the copyright filters to reduce the number of the lawsuits but it managed to ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Security company Sophos discovered one new spam campaign which appears to be based on MP3 files attached to the messages asking for consumers' support for a Canadian company. The filenames are pretty attractive as they use the names of several celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Fergie and others. According to ...
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