Have a laptop or netbook and want to get more out of it? You’re not alone. We’ve experienced the frustration of trying to keep data or bookmarks on a portable synchronised with those of a desktop PC or other laptops. We’ve struggled with diminishing battery life. We’ve needed assistance getting connected at hotspots or staying safe once online. And we’ve wondered how to take full advantage of USB flash drives.
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Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform’s new security features. In addition to changes to User Account Control, BitLocker, and other features inherited from Windows Vista, Windows 7 introduces a slew of security capabilities that businesses will want to take advantage of.
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Free antivirus started life nearly two decades ago as security’s poor relation, little more than a way of ensnaring users with limited features that would give them an excuse to upgrade to paid-for software later on. A number of software vendors built their marketing on such products, even if the bigger brands were sometimes too sniffy to dare offering something as lowly as a ‘free’ product.
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Hackers have penetrated German underground forum carders.cc, copied login details, e-mail addresses and private e-mails from several thousand members and published them on RapidShare. According to a list seen by The H’s associates at heise Security, the forum software had also logged the IP addresses of nearly one thousand members over a specific period. These have also been published.
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The latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec Hosted Services is filled with interesting and useful information regarding the current state of malware and e-mail borne threats as well as the trends over time. Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that “any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine.”
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IBM’s Lotus Notes messaging software can be compromised by a single maliciously crafted email, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies. There is a vulnerability in in Autonomy KeyView, software used by Lotus Notes to process Lotus 1-2-3 files, they said. Core’s researchers found that when they opened a specially crafted Lotus 1-2-3 email attachment in Lotus Notes, they could run unauthorised software on the PC.
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For the second time in four months, Monster.com’s website has been victimized by hackers. The latest attack, believed caused by an IFRAME injection vulnerability, forced the jobs website to take part of its web presence offline Monday. The outage impacted much of the Monster Company Boulevard, where job hunters search for positions by company. Businesses involved in the attack include Eddie Bauer, GMAC Mortgage, Best Buy, Toyota Financial Services, and Tri Counties Bank, said Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at Exploit Prevention Labs, one of the early detectors of the attack.
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Apple’s latest iPhone software update turns iPhones that have been “unlocked” into very expensive paperweights, according to users. Yesterday’s iPhone 1.1.1 update breaks phones that have been hacked so that they work on mobile networks other than AT&T, the only US carrier Apple has allowed iPhones to work with. In recent months, a number of tools have been developed which allow iPhone users to break free of the AT&T-only restriction, but Apple has said that it would fight any attempts to unlock the iPhone.
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Vulnerabilities in the lastest version of Oracle’s database leave the system vulnerable to attacks from hackers. That according to security expert Alexander Kornbrust, who has warned that Oracle’s 11g release – while more secure than its predecessors – does offer enough flaws for attackers to steal data. “Oracle made big progress with 11g, but some of the vulnerabilities I’ve found so far in 11g are stupid programming errors,” said Kornbrust, managing director of Red Database Security, during an interview at the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Usernames and passwords for more than 100 email accounts of various embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Computer Sweden has verified the posted information and spoken to the person who posted them. The posted information includes names of the embassies and governments, addresses of email servers, usernames and passwords. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.
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