Attackers are exploiting a "zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said Monday. Microsoft confirmed the IE bug, saying, ...
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Microsoft today said users of Windows 8 will be able to change the default setting for the"Do Not Track"privacy feature in Internet Explorer 10(IE10)when they first run the new operating system. Do Not Track(DNT)signals whether a user ...
The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries. Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
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A Ukraine-based startup, Devellar, has launched an online plagiarism tool that checks online content to see whether it has been duplicated. The beta version of PlagSpotter features an algorithm that "enables bloggers, journalists, ...
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Computerworld - Google yesterday boosted payments to researchers for reporting bugs in Chrome, saying the move was prompted by a decline in vulnerabilities submitted by outsiders. "Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally ...
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IDG News Service - A tool for testing if web application firewalls (WAFs) are vulnerable to around 150 protocol-level evasion techniques was released at the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference on Wednesday. The tool and the research ...
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Microsoft has blocked a popular work-around that let users boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop, a co-author of an upcoming book on the operating system confirmed today. "Microsoft made some changes to Windows that prevent the .scf hack ...
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Brian F. Prince, real estate professional and self-titled Sophisticated Marketer, is proud to announce the launch of his new website, brianfprince.com. Brian F. Prince, real estate professional and self-titled Sophisticated Marketer, is ...
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Computerworld - Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million annually into criminals' coffers, Symantec said Thursday. "If you look at the nature of the beast, it really puts the screws to you," said Kevin Haley, director ...
IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
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Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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IDG News Service - Mozilla released Firefox 15.0.1 on Thursday to fix a bug that potentially exposed the websites visited by users while in "Private Browsing" mode. "Private Browsing" mode enables Firefox users to surf the Web without ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft may announce the first public preview of Office 2013,the likely name for its next productivity suite,at its annual gathering with partners later today. Although Microsoft has not publicly revealed its plans for ...
Computerworld - An elite hacker group targeting defense industry sub-contractors has an inexhaustible supply of zero-days, or vulnerabilities that have yet to be publicized, much less patched, Symantec said today. In a blog post, the ...
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