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10
Aug

Windows Vista security ‘rendered useless’ by researchers

Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks.
In a presentation at the […]


01
Aug

The Difference of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus

Adware, spyware and computer virus share some similarities, one of which is that all three are major nuisances for computer users. Let’s differentiate the three.
Spyware is software that does not intentionally harm your computer. What they do is that they create pathways wherein someone else aside from the computer owner can communicate with the computer. […]


27
Jul

Hackers Attack Businesses, Blogs and Web 2.0 Sites

Cybercrime gangs enlist the help of Blogspot, Facebook and Angelina Jolie in first half of 2008.
IT security and control firm Sophos has published new research into the first six months of cybercrime in 2008. The Sophos Security Threat Report examines existing and emerging security trends and has identified that criminals are increasingly using creative new […]


13
Jul

Virusheat Does More Than Heat Up Your Computer

It never fails. When you think we’ve covered every nasty rogue anti-spyware program there is out there, another one rears its ugly head. This time it is in the form of Virusheat and it is one of the newest ones infecting computers world wide. Getting rid of this nasty little program takes a lot patience […]


09
Jul

Major Internet Security Flaw Exposed

by Deborah Gage
A security researcher Tuesday revealed a flaw that makes it possible for someone to take control of the Internet.
The flaw is in the design of the Internet’s Domain Name System, a fundamental feature of the Internet that makes it possible for computers to find Web sites. DNS works like a phone book–computers […]


07
Jul

Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser

by Ryan Naraine
According to a new study from researchers at Google, IBM and ETH Zurich, there are about 637 million Google users surfing the Internet with a vulnerable Web browser.
Using data from Google search queries and security vulnerability aggregator Secunia, the study (HTML or PDF) found that a whopping 45 percent of Google users “were […]

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