Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked for more time to consider Softbank's proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, a move that may signal a rough road ahead for the US$20 billion deal. In a letter ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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Vendor earnings, market research reports and the International CES in Las Vegas this week highlighted the hardware arena, which appears to be a tale of two sectors with very different fates: PCs and mobile devices. The PC market continues ...
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IDG News Service - Lenovo is reorganizing its operations into two business groups, in an apparent move to leverage the company's ThinkPad brand to better compete in the market. The reorganization, which will be completed on April 1, seeks ...
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Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman told Computerworld via email Thursday. Agency employees ...
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Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Sprint has ...
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A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a ...
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TRAVERSE CITY, MI, June 15, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Key Metric Software has released version 6 of FolderSizes - the world leader in disk space analysis and visualization software. FolderSizes 6 is a major upgrade that features PDF ...
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A piece of malware called Mahdi or Madi has been used to spy on hundreds of targets from Iran, Israel and a few other Middle Eastern countries during the past eight months, according to researchers from security vendors Seculert and ...
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After gathering analysis of targeted attack data collected between February and September this year, Trend Micro found that 91 percent of targeted attacks involved spearphishing. This finding reinforces the company’s stance that ...
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 can be hacked via NFC, allowing attackers to download all data from the Android smartphone, security researchers demonstrated during the Mobile Pwn2Own contest in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Researchers from security ...
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With so many publicly disclosed instances of online fraud and identify theft, why don't more people encrypt their email messages? That's the question the software developers at Encrytomatic LLC asked themselves recently while developing ...
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A variation of the attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers have said. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a research ...
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Google is rolling out a tool for Apps administrators to search through Gmail logs,the company announced on Tuesday. The feature,available in the Apps control panel,has long been requested by IT administrators of the cloud collaboration ...
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