Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Some industry analysts are proclaiming the traditional antivirus method for detecting and eradicating viruses, trojans, spyware and other baneful code by matching it against a signature to be "dead."
They say signature-based checking can't keep up with the flood of virus variants manufactured by a criminal underworld that is beating the ...
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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
Two years after first being announced by Seagate, the world?s most secure hard drive is finally to go on sale in a laptop from system vendor ASI.
The groundbreaking 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) has had a long and winding gestation, but is now set to be put ...
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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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