Saturday, March 8th, 2008
SiteAdvisor is available to users free of charge.An Internet scorecard application which rates potential risks on Web sites has been downloaded more than 38 million times since it was launched 12 months ago.
The application, SiteAdvisor, which was introduced by McAfee Inc., integrates with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
It applies 320 million ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now.
That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code.
For the attack to work, the bad guys ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of?Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned Thursday.
With Vista's consumer launch just days away, hackers have been bombarding discussion boards with offers of "cracked" versions of Windows Vista, which are typically being ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft is working on a new tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn that will provide secure network access from anywhere on the Net.
The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) creates a VPN tunnel that travels over Secure-HTTP, eliminating issues associated VPN connections based on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Layer ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The https://www.paypal.com/eBay/securitykey is actually a small electronic device, designed to clip on to a keychain, that calculates a new numeric password every 30 seconds. PayPal users who sign up to use the device will need to enter their regular passwords as well as the number displayed on the key whenever ...
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