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Eliminating Spam from Your Inbox
The facts are staggering… Spam emails are estimated to cost anywhere between US$10 to $87 billion per year in direct costs and lost productivity. What’s more, 90% of computer viruses are spread by email attachments. Spam has become so insidious that every company…
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Google Confirms Gmail Glitch
Google revealed a glitch in what may be its second-most successful service, ranking only behind search. The company confirmed Friday that some users of Gmail, its popular email service, had their email accounts wiped out, with messages and contact information being permanently…
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Spam Slams Internet at Record Levels
An explosion of spam has security Relevant Products/Services vendors salivating over potential sales of filtering products this coming year, with levels of the insidious mail clogging inboxes expected to grow at unprecedented levels. In the closing months of 2006, the volume of…
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Online Shoppers Overwhelm iTunes Store
Swarms of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards apparently overwhelmed Apple’s iTunes music store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song. Frazzled users began posting urgent help…
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Google Passes Yahoo in Tally of Visitors
Google, the search engine company, displaced Yahoo as the world’s second-most-visited Web site in November and closed in on the leader, Microsoft, a market researcher said yesterday. Visitors to Google’s sites rose 9.1 percent, to 475.7 million in November from a year earlier,…
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NORAD Keeps Track of Santa
Despite being pounded by the Holiday Blizzard of 2006, North American Aerospace Defense Command remains on alert for the nation and ready to track Santa Claus, according to NORAD officials. “NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center is schedule to begin operations as scheduled at 2…
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Using Google to View MySpace or Any Restricted Site
Google Translate is a translation service provided by Google to help you translate text or web pages to the language you desire. Some of the languages supported include English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Japanese, etc. If you want to translate a page…
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Santa’s Web Site Hacked
Even Santa isn’t safe from spyware and viruses. With Christmas fast approaching, Santa Claus reached out for a little help from Stopbadware.org this week. The consumer advocacy group said it was approached by an Incline Village, Nevada, man who has legally changed his…
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Worm Spreading via Skype Chat?
Computer security analysts are studying reports of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype’s popular Voice over IP service. Security vendor Websense said the worm spreads through Skype’s chat feature. Users receive a message asking them to download a…
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MySpace worm exploits Quicktime weakness to steal logins and plant spyware
F-Secure has spotted an outbreak of a Javascript exploit that uses flaws in Apple’s Quicktime to grab MySpace profile data. It’s not easy to explain, but it’s a form of phishing: you visit what looks like a normal MySpace page, but the links have been altered…