Microsoft has launched a campaign in the U.S. that targets Google's alleged practice of going through the contents of all Gmail messages to sell and target advertisements, raising again an old issue the software giant has with the free ...
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A bug redirected people from third-party websites integrated with Facebook to Facebook.com. for a short period of time, the social networking website said Thursday. The temporary glitch, which affected users on Thursday afternoon, ...
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A faulty antivirus update issued by Kaspersky Lab on Monday left many of its home and business customers unable to access any websites on their computers. Systems administrators using Kaspersky Endpoint Security (KES) on their corporate ...
Software vendors Microsoft and Symantec have "taken down" the Bamital botnet following a joint investigation lasting more than three years. The operation involved shutting down servers that were being used to control hundreds of thousands ...
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Web browser provider Opera has reached 300 million users and has announced plans to drop its own Presto rendering engine in favour of WebKit. It means that future updates to Opera's browser will use the same engine as rivals in the space, ...
New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced the recall of approximately 340 Mutsy Evo strollers because the opening between the grab bar and seat bottom can allow a child's body to pass through and become entrapped at the neck--a ...
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Urban Outfitters, Inc., a leading lifestyle specialty retail company operating under the Anthropologie, BHLDN, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands, announced record net sales for the quarter and year ended January 31, 2013. ...
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Partnering with the likes of Electro-Federation Canada (EFC), the Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC) and National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) in the U.S. ...
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Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more secure than those of desktop or laptop computers, a report has found. Blue Coat ...
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Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). The firm ...
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Financial malware authors are returning to traditional, phishing-like, credential-stealing techniques in order to evade detection, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cybercriminals ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. announced that it has agreed to a mutual termination of its license agreement in China, Hong Kong and surrounding markets with Dickson Concepts (International) Limited. Consistent with its long-term global ...