Cybercriminality on the rise

While spam continues to annoy people just as much, mobile threats are trying hard to catch up and be the number one pain in the… In the fourth quarter of last year, according to McAfee, who published a new report, mobile malware threats have experienced an increase by an outstanding 46 percent last...
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Mozilla in a hurry this year

Mozilla has set out a plan for the Firefox in 2011, and their intention is to send out the Firefox 4 in the upcoming weeks. The director of Firefox at Mozilla, Mike Beltzner, is estimating that the versions 5, 6 and 7 will also be releasing by the end of this year. The plan of the release of the four...
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CyberPatrol Parental Controls 7.7

Children, with their natural aptitude for learning and their passion for looking things up online, just love being able to use the computer. However with the many threats in the online world it just doesn’t seem safe for them to be using the computer alone-but who has the time to be sat constantly...
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Rogue Anti-virus Programs Getting Harder to Remove

There have been a series of fake anti-virus programs that have been created by malware makers over the past few years. Far from being true anti-virus programs they offer no useful functionality. They are in fact malware in and of themselves, and are known to interfere with system operation, preventing...
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What is Malware and Why is it Made?

Malware is a common problem for both home and business computer users, and one that must be understood in order to overcome it. The potential damage that malware can cause may be costly or lead to the loss of important files, and yet it can be easily prevented. Malware is an umbrella term that encompasses...
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The music pirates are still active

According to a new study, it appears that the music pirates are still here. The study surfaced last week and informed us about the fact that two thirds of BitTorrent traffic is more than probably to be related to copyright breach. We were even more surprised to know that there is a high probability...
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US Senator concerned about domain seizures

After watching the news regarding to the third stage of counterfeit and piracy related domain seizures which took place in the past seven months, the US Senator called Ron Wyden has made the decision of asking the director of ICE to make clear a few aspects of this activity. The senator made it quite...
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Wi-Fi Alliance out to promote WPA2

A new campaign is about to be launched by the Wi-Fi Alliance, urging the consumers to configure their devices and their routers to use WPA2 (short from Wi-Fi Protected Access 2). With the new WPA2 updated on all the equipment for wireless Wi-Fi, the costumers can stay relaxed knowing their data is safe. The...
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670 file sharers lawsuit dismissed

More than a few months ago a suite was filled by an adult film producer against 670 persons of whom he said that they have infringed copyright on an obscure title. But now the case in question has been dismissed with prejudice, this meaning that every one of the defenders is entirely off the hook. So...
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Customers remain anonymous

We have all heard of the incoming implementation from the European Data Retention Directive coming from Sweden. The Swedish ISP and host of Wikileaks, Bahnhof will run all the customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service. Logging the activities the customers of Bahnhof are doing will be impossible,...
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