Archive for: October 2008

October 31, 2008

Microsoft OEM software piracy

Filed under: Microsoft security - 31 Oct 2008

Software trade group Business Software Alliance or BSA has revealed findings of its own study that found that for every 10 software products sold via the Internet, about four are pirated copies of original OEM software. The most usual victim …

October 30, 2008

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Filed under: Computer security Systems - 30 Oct 2008

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October 29, 2008

Mapping your network drive

Filed under: Networking security - 29 Oct 2008

Moving files between computers on a floppy disk (the so-called “sneakernet”) is a thing of the past. If you have more than one computer in …

October 28, 2008

Introduction to digital right management

Filed under: Copyright - 28 Oct 2008

Introduction Most people have heard of software licensing and pay per view television, but possibly not connected it with a development in technology called Digital Rights Management (DRM). To understand what DRM is trying to achieve you first of all …

October 23, 2008

Financial institutions are prime target for phishers

Filed under: News - 23 Oct 2008

The phishing activities has been increased and many of the financial institutions systems hit by the phishers this year. There is a need to curb these activities and do a deep research to overcome.

The financial sector’s increased reliance on the …

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch

Filed under: Microsoft security - 23 Oct 2008

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to fix an extremely critical worm hole that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

The emergency update comes just one week after the regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday and follows the discovery of a …

October 21, 2008

Installing firefox on linux

Filed under: Linux security - 21 Oct 2008

Getting Firefox installed on your computer is your first step to using it. The below reading will show you how to install Firefox on Linux.

Many Linux distributions include Firefox by default. Some distributions include IceWeasel, which is a version of …

Configuring AVG security for firefox

Filed under: Antivirus - 21 Oct 2008

AVG Internet Security is a software package for Microsoft Windows. It includes a firewall component, which controls which programs can access the outside world. If AVG Internet Security is not set to fully allow Firefox, Firefox will be unable to …

Symantec announced 2008 partners award

Filed under: News - 21 Oct 2008

Symantec Corp.  today announced the 2008 North American Partner Award winners at Symantec Partner Engage 2008. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize channel leaders for their success in partnering with Symantec to help joint customers protect their information-driven businesses. These organizations …

October 20, 2008

Microsoft will start beta testing for vista

Filed under: Macintosh security - 20 Oct 2008

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will start beta testing the next service pack update for Windows Vista in coming weeks.

The update release will be SP2 for Vista, the operating system which has started fairing well. Familiar sources cited that …

Hackers exploit financial crisis to gain benefit

Filed under: News - 20 Oct 2008

The Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer’s bank, savings and loan, or mortgage.

“In fact, these messages may be from …

Phony email from Microsoft is a Worm

Filed under: Windows security - 20 Oct 2008

There is an email making the rounds which appears to be from
“Microsoft Corporation Security Center” with a subject line of
“Internet Security Update”.

The email has an attachment which the email describes as being
the “1 Mar 2002 Cumulative Patch” for IE.  The …

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