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Storm worm 're-exported' through a joke
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Storm worm 're-exported' through a joke

Dangerous computer worms Storm Worm used to scan millions of computers and social networks. Its variant is continuing to attack by email bearing the April Fool's Day the…

December 13, 2018
Open Office XML becomes the ISO standard
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Open Office XML becomes the ISO standard

The format that the 2007 Microsoft Office office application package uses to store collected documents is sufficiently votes and is considered an international standard.…

December 13, 2018
Website Vietnam goodbye Alexa!
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Website Vietnam goodbye Alexa!

Recently, security programs on computers like Symantec Antivirus, Internet Security ... prevent users from installing Alexa Toolbar because it identifies this tool as sp…

December 13, 2018
Hackers attack two serious
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Hackers attack two serious

Security firms have warned hackers are exploiting two recent Microsoft vulnerabilities to attack Windows operating systems. The only unaffected operating system version…

December 13, 2018
Detect black holes throughout the Internet
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Detect black holes throughout the Internet

The reason why you can't go to a particular website at a given time can be very simple. Server and hosting issues, maintenance or the simple fact that a website has been…

December 13, 2018
Hackers use the Olympics to spread malicious code
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Hackers use the Olympics to spread malicious code

Hackers have recently posted a fake video that provides new information about the Beijing Olympics taking advantage of the interest of PC users to this sporting event to…

December 13, 2018
Apple fixes deadly errors in Safari
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Apple fixes deadly errors in Safari

Yesterday (April 16), Apple also upgraded Safari for Mac OS X and Windows to a new version to overcome a series of dangerous security bugs in this web browser.

December 13, 2018
Spreading out every 3 seconds a spam site
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Spreading out every 3 seconds a spam site

Latest research data from security firm Sophos shows that 92.3% of emails sent around the world in the first 3 months of 2008 are spam. Around the same time, there were…

December 13, 2018
Social networks threaten Google's future
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Social networks threaten Google's future

Google dominates the online search service, but with the speed of user-generated content development today, their tools as well as many other Internet companies are cons…

December 13, 2018
The unsafe browser is removed from Paypal
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The unsafe browser is removed from Paypal

Customers opening a Paypal account may have trouble using the service. Because this online payment company began to apply phishing protection (phishing), which has inade…

December 13, 2018