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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Computer security experts are worried that the advances in smartphone technology, such as achieved by the Apple iPhone 3G S will lead to an increased threat of malware.
Basically, as the ability to mobile surf becomes the norm, mobile phones will become just as vulnerable to attack from malware as desktops and laptops.
And what’s more, the [...]
Tags: Apple, computer viruses, ID theft, identity theft, malware, spam
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
With little fanfare, Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for updating its Windows Vista operating system. As with the previous service pack, it contained many bug fixes and will help security for users both on corporate networks and at home.
As well as bug fixes, it also contained a number of refinements to the advanced operating [...]
Tags: malware, Microsoft, Vista, Windows Update
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Top computer security company Kaspersky has announced the release of its consumer products Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010.
Both products boast an advanced technology which is based on a host intrusion system in the control module which recognises an unknown piece of malware code and assigns it a security rating. And both were [...]
Tags: anti-virus, Internet Security, Kaspersky, malware
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Twitter is back in the news again for the wrong reason with reports that it has been hit by a scareware scam.
Some Tweeters fell victim to the scam which invited them to a Best Video buy link, which actually took them to a site offering a rogue security application.
The brief messages, which contained a hyperlink [...]
Tags: scareware, Twitter, YouTube
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The recent successes of anti-virus software in keeping many computers out of harms way has ironically led to a change of tactics by many cyber criminals.
Whereas malicious software used to come out sporadically, followed by the occasional variants, it now appears that the people behind the viruses are determining to flood the ether with new [...]
Tags: anti-virus, computer viruses, cyber crime
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
June in the U.S. is known as Backup Awareness Month, although how many people know such a thing is debatable.
But even though summer obviously coincides with the time for protecting one’s digital data, recent research reports have shown that over 90% of people still risk loss by not backing-up properly.
They also show that despite campaigns [...]
Tags: Backup Awareness Month, data backup, data loss
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