Monthly IT Updates




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April Updates

Week 5

05. 01. 2009

Log toggling speeds up Cloud Antivirus - By pushing as much resource usage as possible into the clouds, Panda Security's new Cloud Antivirus aims to free up the RAM hogging that plagues many security programs ...
Cloud Antivirus speeds up

05. 01. 2009

Swine flu e-mail in Spanish links to data-stealing Trojan - An e-mail referencing a vaccine for swine flu is circulating that includes a link to a malicious file on a Mexican Web site that is designed to steal bank log-in information, security firm SonicWall ...
Swine attacks again

05. 01. 2009

Lime Wire tells Congress its P2P software is safe now - In response to the reopening of an investigation into inadvertent file sharing with peer-to-peer software, an executive for Lime Wire told Congress in a letter on Friday that the new version of the program is "the most secure file-sharing software available." ...
Lime Wire Safe???

05. 01. 2009

USPS probes possible mass security breach - The United States Postal Inspection Service is investigating a data breach at both companies that resulted in sensitive information being used in a crime ...
Breach at USPS

05. 01. 2009

Twitter's network gets breached again - Twitter has confirmed that someone broke into its network and gained access to 10 accounts, which appear to include Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher ...
Twitter attacked

04. 30. 2009

Facebook hit by phishing attacks for a second day - Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the site that lures people to a fake Facebook page and prompts them to log in ...
Facebook attack

04. 29. 2009

Cloud Antivirus runs smooth but slow - Panda Security introduced Cloud Antivirus beta, the first fullfeatured cloud-based antivirus program. It does two things that make it competitive and unique compared with its competitors ...
Cloud antivirus runs slow

04. 29. 2009

Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus - With threats like Conficker fresh in the public's mind, security remains a top concern for Windows users. Panda Security, publishers of Panda Internet Security and Panda Antivirus, ...
Free cloud-based Antivirus

04. 28. 2009

Finovate: Privacy is dead, long live the PIN - What's something we often use for security in the real world but not online? PIN codes. We use them at stores, banks, and ATMs, so why not use them online? For one, a QWERTY keyboard lets you create a much stronger ...
Privacy dead

04. 28. 2009

Microsoft tightens Windows 7 security for USB drives - In the wake of the Conficker worm spreading via removable storage devices among other methods, Microsoft said on Tuesday it is making a change to the way Windows 7 handles USB drives ...
USB security in Windows 7

04. 28. 2009

Phishing with Swine Flu as bait - Phishers and spammers have caught Swine Flu fever and are exploiting fears around the outbreak to try to sell pharmaceutical products or steal information, security experts said Tuesday ...
Phising with Swine

04. 28. 2009

Another Adobe Reader security hole emerges - Security experts are recommending that people disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader following reports of a vulnerability in the popular portable document format reader on Tuesday ...
Adobe security hole

04. 27. 2009

McAfee launches free online cybercrime help center - Is your computer acting funny? Are you worried that you may have visited a malicious Web site or opened an e-mail attachment with malware? ...
McAfee Help Center

04. 27. 2009

Google plugs PC power into cloud computing - The company has released experimental but still very much real software that brings in some of the power of the PC, where people often use Web applications. Google Native Client--first released in 2008 but updated ...
Google PC power into cloud

04. 27. 2009

Puerto Rico sites redirected in DNS attack - An attack on the main domain name system registrar in Puerto Rico led to the local Web sites of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, and other big companies being redirected for a few hours on Sunday ...
P.R. DNS ATTACK