Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A lot of people have used Google but few have any idea as to the complexity and computer power necessary to return billions of queries with millions of results all in under a second. This isn’t by accident, an oversight by Google or even due to security concerns, Google believes ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Security company AVG is upgrading a component of its antivirus software so as not to place an undue traffic load on the Web sites it scans.The company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack, Microsoft warned Monday.The flaw lies in the Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which ships with "all supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except Microsoft Access 2007," Microsoft said in a security advisory, published ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Some new statistics just came out regarding Browser Security, this is more in terms of which users are most likely to apply patches and be using the most secure version.I would have thought Firefox would have been pretty high since the newer series prompt automatically new patches. My only guess ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
As predicted, hackers tried to trick users into downloading the Storm bot Trojan Friday by unleashing a flood of Fourth of July spam bearing links to malicious sites, several security companies reported.The spam campaign, anticipated earlier in the week by MX Logic Inc., used messages with subject headings ranging from ...
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