Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
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Facebook's announcement that it now has more than a billion active users shows the resiliency of the social networking platform, analysts say. "It's a platform that has survived and grown despite its privacy issues, usability issues and ...
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If a business intelligence (BI) vendor tells you that its products are integrated with Hadoop, you should ask a lot of questions. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to declare their support for the big data technology ...
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Google has added a feature to its Webmaster Tools search engine optimization (SEO) service that will alert publishers about sudden changes in their site's Google results and click-throughs. In this way, publishers will be notified ...
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A buggy update released Friday by security vendor McAfee for its consumer and enterprise antivirus products, left the computers of its customers unprotected and, in some cases, unable to access the Internet. The incident affected both ...
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Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old in June. The ...
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EMC said today it has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioural analysis. EMC plans to use the purchase to beef up its RSA security division in the rapidly ...
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Outlook.com, the new webmail service that Microsoft is previewing and that will replace Hotmail, has gained security boosts against phishing and spam. The new safety features come via support for the DMARC email authentication standard ...
The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Crisis ...
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In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a telecom company based in China, a country famous for Internet censorship, has become the primary means of Internet access for people looking to get information out of war-torn Syria. An analysis of ...
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Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. "We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox ...
Steve DelBianco is worried that the U.S. Congress will soon pass a law allowing states to collect sales taxes from most online sellers. An expected push for online sales tax legislation in Congress in 2013 is a "clear and present danger ...
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Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension. HTTPS Everywhere forces the browser to always connect over HTTPS(HTTP Secure)to ...
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For the second day in a row,Microsoft on Tuesday pitched one of its products to customers abandoned by arch-rival Google. In an attempt to woo users of Google Apps,Microsoft yesterday tripled the length of its Office 365 Small Business ...
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Web hosting providers from the U.S., Canada and other Western nations have been hosting official Syrian government websites, in violation of sanction orders from the U.S. and other governments, according to a Canadian Web research ...
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