February, 2010
Skype gives up on Microsoft
Popular instant messaging, voice chat, and video conferencing client Skype and Skype Lite are no longer available on Windows Mobile devices. The company says, “We’ve chosen to withdraw Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile because we want to offer our new customers an improved mobile experience — much like the version that has proved [...]
Microsoft is about to cut off 277 unsafe Internet domains
Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted a request by Microsoft to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the software maker said is linked to a “botnet”. A [...]
App Store bans Adult Applications
Trying to get rid of the adult content that could be easily accessed by children, Apple decided to remove more then five thousand adult applications from App Store, that contained either sexual context words in their names, or photos of men and women naked or wearing bikinis. Apple will also pay more attention to the [...]
Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8 & 9 updates released
Adobe Systems has released updates for Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8 & 9 closing the security breaches that could allow computer access, and fixing a but that might have caused emergency program shutdown. This updates is for Acrobat 8 and 9, and the finale version of the software now are 8.2.1 and 9.3.1.
A third of the US does not use the Internet
Based on a survey of 50,000 people, new Census Bureau data shows that the poor, the elderly and minorities continue to lag behind other groups. About 64 per cent of households have an Internet connection, which is more than the 51 per cent that did in 2007. Those who didn’t have access either claimed it [...]
Kaspersky Lab patents cutting-edge hardware antivirus solution
Kaspersky has announced successful patenting of a new hardware-based antivirus system that effectively combats rootkits. The new technology makes use of a hardware-based antivirus solution whose primary function is to neutralize the most widespread type of threat – malicious programs that store themselves or infect files on a computer’s hard drive. The patented antivirus program [...]
Google may be seperating Buzz from Gmail
The new microblogging service from Google has received a lot of criticism lately, for the lake of confidentiality protection. Since the account in Buzz is connected to Gmail account, with certain knowledge one is able to access your whole address book and even get your geographical location(through the GPS navigation systems in iPhone and Nexus [...]
The Blue Screen Crashes might be Caused by Malware
After the last week security update from Microsoft, their support service has been flooded with reports from customers, saying that their computers had been rendered unusable with a blue-screen-of-death. After the investigation, Microsoft has come to the conclusion that this might be caused be the malicious software, and claims to have proof that removing malware [...]
Microsoft Soft Approach to Windows 7 Anti-piracy Update in China
Later this month users worldwide will automatically start to receive this update that will verify if the operating system is genuine later this month, however Chinese users will not receive it until summer, as Microsoft tries a softer approach to fighting software piracy in China. It has been a long time since foreign companies started [...]
Server-Side Vulnerabilities Fixed With a Big Patch by Microsoft
26 vulnerabilities in 13 security bulletins have been fixed with the recent big patch by Microsoft. 11 of these bulletins effected Windows, and the rest affected the older versions of Microsoft Office. Although the server-side vulnerabilities become less and less common, they may become a golden goose for an attacker if discovered, as it may [...]