Friday, August 23rd, 2013
Denial of service attack capabilities have been found in popular media program Orbit Downloader.
The Windows program integrated into web browsers and was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from website Softpedia and 18,000 times last month alone from rival Softonic. It was still available for download on these sites.
But Eset ...
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Disguising an IP address or using a proxy server to visit Web sites you've been banished from is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer for the Northern District of California issued the ruling Friday in a ...
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Monday, August 19th, 2013
Here is the picture that I often reference when talking about information security.
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Monday, August 19th, 2013
Microsoft is intensifying its efforts asking users to scrap Windows XP, the 12-year-old operating system for which the software giant is ending support next April.
Tim Rains, director of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, authored a blog post last week reminding customers of the perils that could await them should they continue running XP, which ...
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Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Apple’s App Store can seem like Fort Knox, with Apple reviewing each and every app before making it live. This fastidious approach works, for the most part, but it isn’t a perfect process. MIT Technology Review reports that researchers from Georgia Tech recently managed to get a malware-infected app approved by Apple ...
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