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Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run
Facebook‘s 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data. Over the last two days, millions of messages have been sent. The messages appear to come from Facebook, with a return address that looks legitimate but has been spoofed, [...]
A new Linux Distribution by North Korea
North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows. Although the operating system is still considered stable, it was easy to set up, taking around 15 minutes to install, however it comes with a single language option: Korean. The desktop interface shown [...]
Frequent, Effective Attacks on Worldwide Business
Symantec Corp. released the findings of its global 2010 State of Enterprise Security study. The study found that 42 percent of organizations rate security their top issue. This isn’t a surprise, considering that 75 percent of organizations experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months. These attacks cost enterprise businesses an average of $2 million [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google suspects their employees
Google suspects that the recent attacks on the company’s networks might have been done with the help of the company’s employees. The search giant isn’t just negotiating this matter with Chiniese government, but also is investigating the matter theiself. We remind you that Google has decided to leave one of the biggest parts of the [...]
Google may be shutting down Google.cn and closing it’s offices in China
Companies higher ups have decided to review theire policies in China. As known since 2006 Google has launched it’s Chiniese version Google.cn to match the countries Internet laws, and it was decided that if in the current sircumstances it will be impossible to provide the population of China with open Internet and open information the [...]
234 million websites to browse
According to Netcraft company, whose main activity is global network monitoring, the number of websites in Internet is now apporaching 234 million. Only in last year 47 million of new websites have emerged, and 7 million of them are active – meaning they have regular visitors. The leader in web-servers among all of these websites [...]