Next year could well be the year that many IT leaders finally start to get their mobile computing management house in order. The process of integrating consumer smartphones, tablets and other devices into the workplace has been chaotic ...
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Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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Microsoft today said it would update Flash on Windows 8 "shortly," although it declined to set a timetable. "In light of Adobe's recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft is working closely with Adobe to release ...
You don't have to be a technical genius to keep your computer operating as smoothly and as quickly as it did the day you brought it home. Is that a startling revelation? If you answered yes to that question, "Why Is My PC So Slow?" is ...
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Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of digital crooks as people move away from using PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, according to ...
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec identified two malware apps on Google Play that used a multistage payload delivery system in order to remain undetected. The apps, which have since been removed by Google, masqueraded as ...
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SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than US$13 billion collectively. But company executives also maintain they intend to increase revenues ...
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Symantec this week announced two new data encryption options, one that is file-based encryption for use with Dropbox, and the second that works as an extension to the AppleiOS mail client to encrypt and decrypt documents. Symantec Mobile ...
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Symantec today announced upgrades to its enterprise-class NetBackup software to focus on tighter integration with VMware and the ability to backup and recover virtual machines (VMs) more quickly. NetBackup 7.6 will include NetBackup ...
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In a cryptic statement during the launch of Nokia Windows Phone 8 smartphones this week, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop might have tipped the company’s hand about developing tablets. If the company does make a Windows 8 tablet, it ...
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BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. What the malware creators intend to do with the privacy-invading information is not clear. The app ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
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Symantec has announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of VCS, slated to be ...
Symantec has spotted another odd piece of malware that appears to be targeting Iran and is designed to meddle with SQL databases. The company discovered the malware, called W32.Narilam, on Nov. 15 but on Friday published a more detailed ...
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