Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Users have a lot to worry about when downloading and playing media files. Are the files legal? Can their computers play the required file formats? Now there's yet another problem to add to the list: Will a media file try to install spyware?
When Windows Media Player encounters a file ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The steady rise in phishing attacks in the last year, coupled with increasingly sophisticated scams such as "pharming" attacks, is driving interest in technology to lock down critical components such as e-mail and Domain Name System.
But bigger changes to the underlying Internet infrastructure may be needed, according to interviews with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers will keep cranking out exploits that take advantage of known software vulnerabilities because, although patches are available, a minority of machines are fixed, security vendor McAfee said Monday. In releasing its quarterly security analysis, McAfee's "AVERT" virus research team noted that exploited vulnerabilities are becoming a dominant threat to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you think that today's high-speed Internet connections are fast, wait till you see what cable operators plan. The industry's standard-settings unit, CableLabs, plans to endorse this month technology that will let operators boost speeds 400% to 1,600%, over their existing lines.
Motorola and Cisco are among the companies offering alternative ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Wireless LANs utilize radio waves for transporting information, which results in security vulnerabilities that justifiably worry network managers. To assuage those worries, most companies implement authentication and encryption to harden security. However, WLANs have a whole host of other vulnerabilities that can be more difficult to completely smother such as ...
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