Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go Office 365 subscription plans differ from traditional buy-once software in one important aspect: When customers stop paying, the applications stop working. Although that makes sense -- Office isn't freeware ...
Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new product that combines the company's anti-malware technology with new mobile and system ...
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Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new product that combines the company’s anti-malware technology with new mobile and ...
Tags: Kaspersky Lab, IT security processes, new mobile, anti-malware technology
Cyber criminals have moved beyond the traditional PC, targeting Android, social media and even the Mac OS X with new attacks, according to Trend Micro’s 2012 Annual Roundup and Mobile Security reports. Malware targeting Android alone ...
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Java's new security settings, designed to block "drive-by" browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday. The news came in the aftermath of several embarrassing "zero-day" vulnerabilities, and a recent ...
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Kanguru announces the launch of Kanguru’s new Defender DualTrustTM, a new secure online access and encrypted USB storage device developed jointly by Kanguru and Deepnet Security. The Defender DualTrust turns any Windows PC into a safe ...
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Symantec plans to cut over 1,000 jobs as part of a shake-up at the Californian anti-virus software firm, reports suggest. The firm, which yesterday released rather positive trading results, announced a streamlined corporate strategy that ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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Many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the Virut malware were disabled last week in a coordinated takedown effort, Spamhaus, an organization dedicated to fighting spam, announced Saturday. ...
The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an ...
Microsoft has identified 13 PC resellers based in Shanghai that it claims have been distributing counterfeit versions of its Windows OS, and the company could take legal action against them if a settlement isn't reached. Microsoft made ...
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Trend Micro has spotted a piece of malicious software that masquerades as the latest patch for Java, a typically opportunistic move by hackers. Oracle released two emergency patches on Sunday for its Java programming language and ...
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Researchers from Security Explorations, a Poland-based vulnerability research firm, claim to have found two new vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software's security sandbox and execute arbitrary code ...
Following on from last year’s Flashback Trojan incident, which saw 600,000 Mac users infected with malware through a Java loophole, AnchorFree has warned Mac users that the worst is still to come. “The Flashback outbreak was a ...
The Virut botnet suffered a major setback last week, after it was announced that many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the malware had been disabled. This was the result of coordinated ...