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'Sophos' Sophos gives the wrong medicine
Security firm Sophos has officially apologized to users for making a mistake in issuing an update to the Inqtana-B virus identification information that attacks Mac OS X…
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Security with Online Banking
Starting to use since the 1990s, Online Banking is the core for e-commerce. However, account management and security still cannot prevent unfortunate losses, especially…
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60% of users receive e-mails every day
According to British security firm Sophos, nearly two-thirds of users in businesses suffer from phishing messages every day, 22% of which receive an average of 5 e-mails…
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Error appears in the embedded database
A security expert has just warned that some problems in the embedded database, such as SleepyCat's company (recently belonging to Oracle) are likely to be exploited to g…
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Every application has spyware
Two research institutes of Internet at Harvard and Oxford are preparing to incorporate specialized website introduction
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Google acknowledges the security threat in Desktop Seach
Research firm Gartner warned business users about it
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New worm hacked Linux via PHP application
Security experts yesterday warned users about a new computer worm that attacks Linux systems by exploiting security holes in a PHP application. Mare.D worm application t…
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'Cookie dynamic' - new anti-phishing security solution
Electronic security expert Markus Jakobsson and RavenWhite - a newly established company in which Jakobsson is a founding member - has successfully developed
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Trojan, threat of financial security
Technology criminals will be online with you in transactions to steal money. The warning of experts on a new situation worrisome in financial transaction security. Troja…
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Find a security error, reward 10,000 USD
iDefense Labs, a branch of VeriSign, has officially opened a large playground for hackers and security globally called 'Quarterly Hacking Challenge', with a prize of up…
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Dangerous security error in Windows Media Player
On February 14, security firm Eeye Digital Security announced a dangerous security flaw in Windows Media Player that could allow an attacker to hijack a user's computer.…
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General CD patch for Windows (02-2006)
In February, Microsoft continued to provide free ISO files for security errors in the month with serious, medium security errors or just updates for Windows versions. IS…
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The British government is concerned about Windows Vista
The UK security agency is concerned about the encryption mechanism of Windows Vista and thinks it will make it very difficult for investigating agencies to read data fro…
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Online security affects the whole economy
According to John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, if it is not possible to create a reliable digital environment, not only the development of e-businesses but the whole econo…
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The code for exploiting the WMP security error appears
There are now two dangerous pieces of code to exploit a serious flaw in Microsoft's Windows Media Player (WMP) multimedia application. That's just two days after Microso…