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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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Vista Could Sap Notebook PC Battery Life
Notebook PC users who upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Vista may have to disable some of the new operating system’s flashy graphics features to avoid seeing a decrease in battery life compared to when running Windows XP. The drop will come from the extra power needed…
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PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
The amount of energy wasted by UK office equipment left on standby over the ten-day Christmas period would be enough to roast 4.4 million turkeys, predicts hardware maker Canon. With offices deserted, devices left running will use 43.6 million kWh of electricity. In total, the…
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Hackers Selling Vista Zero-Day Exploit
Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been independently verified—was just one of many…
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Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users
With the recent release of Microsoft’s newest potential cash cows, Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is expecting a wave of upgrades from users seeking the latest functionality. But what if you’re not looking for new bells and whistles? What if you want to…
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Dell revamps product group, adds executives
Dell announced a new operating structure Tuesday that divides the company’s product business into new blocks. At the same time, several new executives are arriving at the Round Rock, Texas, company’s offices in a bid to inject some new thinking into management…
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Holiday Decorations Can Create Major Wi-Fi Disturbances
AirMagnet Inc., the award-winning leader in wireless network assurance, announced the results of a recently conducted survey measuring wireless signal strength in a standard office setting both before and after introducing a change in the office environment — holiday…
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Potential pirates, not Vista, get cracked
35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the “devils0wn”, began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system. Since then, the key has been used thousands of times and is now a part of…
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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…
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Microsoft CEO Sees Less Piracy With Windows Vista
Microsoft expects software piracy, which costs the company billions of dollars every year, to ease with the introduction of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. Microsoft launched Windows Vista to businesses…