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Small companies ignorant of security?
Small businesses must become more aware that they are the potential victims of cybercrime, former White House security adviser Howard Schmidt has urged. Speaking at an IT security event at London’s House of Lords on Monday, Schmidt said all businesses are at risk through…
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Microsoft brings 129 lawsuits against phishers
Microsoft is helping law enforcers hunt down criminals who try to steal bank account details on the Internet and has initiated 129 lawsuits in Europe and the Middle East, the U.S. software company said. One court case in Turkey has already led to a 2.5-year prison sentence for…
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The Truth About Digital Cameras
On the show, we did a test. We blew up a photograph to 16 x 24 inches at a professional photo lab. One print had 13-megapixel resolution; one had 8; the third had 5. Same exact photo, down-rezzed twice, all three printed at the same poster size. I wanted to hang them all on a…
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Webroot Adding Parental-Control Software
Webroot Software Inc., known for its anti-spyware program Spy Sweeper, is bringing back a product to help parents limit where and how long their children go online. Child Safe joins Web filtering programs like Net Nanny, CYBERsitter and ContentProtect in the parental-control…
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Cyber Monday more myth than reality?
The biggest online holiday shopping day is not, as it turns out, the Monday after Thanksgiving. Only 10 percent of Americans surveyed online said they will shop on the Web on so-called Cyber Monday, according to a report published Monday by MasterCard. The survey was conducted…
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Consumers to Lose $2.8 Billion to Phishers in 2006
Browser makers may have added new antiphishing features to their products in recent months, but the criminals are still gaining ground in their efforts to defraud U.S. consumers, according to the Gartner research firm. Phishers have hit more victims with their online attacks,…
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‘Second Life’ hit by worm
A self-replicating worm Linden Labs dubbed “grey goo” overtook online game Second Life Sunday, forcing the game’s owners to block all logins but their own for about half an hour. According to comments on the company’s blog, the worm planted spinning gold…
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Microsoft: Pirated Vista may be useless
The pirated Vista comes with a product key that users can enter to activate a version of the products on their computers without paying for them, a report on the Web site of The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said. A product key is a unique serial number tied to each package…
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Windows Vista testers get free copy of RTM
Not everyone saw it coming… nothing came in Office 2007 for testers but Vista was always a hell of a lot bigger than Office 2007. Windows Vista released to manufacturing last week, and MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers could get it… and those with Volume Licensing access… and…
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Moore’s Law is dead, says Gordon Moore
The extrapolation of a trend that was becoming clear even as long ago as 1965, and has been the pulse of the IT industry ever since will eventually end, said Moore, who is now retired from Intel. Forty years after the publication of his law, which states that transistor density…