Ever since the movie Sneakers, I have been fascinated by computer hacking. I love the idea of being able to break into a system, steel file information, and cover up my tracks flawlessly. I suppose that it is a pretty classic fantasy, but with a new twist. Everyone dreams of being a ninja of...
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A New Zealand man who discovered US military files on an MP3 player has been visited by US officials about the matter. Chris Ogle bought the portable MP3 player for $US9 ($15) in an op-shop in Oklahoma last year. But when he got back to New Zealand, he tried to download some songs onto his computer...
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MicroRiver UK based manufacturer of secure USB flash devices have introduced and launched Xfort Network Security solution. This launch will give some relief to the users of flash drives to protect their data. The full name of X-FORT is enterprise eXtreme FORT. It is a system that prevents employees from stealing confidential information. Using a...
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Parents, security experts and opposition parties have voiced alarm that 400,000 people are to be given access to a new national database containing details of all 11 million children living in England. ContactPoint, which has so far cost £224 million, will hold the name, address, date of birth, parents’ details, GP and name of school...
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Microsoft 5000 jobs cut will have less affect to asia pacific employees. Yesterday, the IT icon announced that it will cut up to 5,000 jobs in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, legal, human resources and IT over the next one and half year.  Microsoft job cut decision will save US$1.5 billion in operational expenses and...
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Successful Office Live product will merge to  successful Windows Live product, which will allow the increasingly cash-sensitive firm to rein in costs. Office Live, which remains in beta, was made publicly available about ten months ago and now has four million people signed up to it, according to MS. Gregerson said the company has simply responded...
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Bill Gates predict that the economic crisis will hover on world economy for a decade. Gate expressed this in his letter through an organization Gates foundation which is working on philinthropy. “If you take a longer timeframe, such as five to 10 years, I am very optimistic that these problems will be behind us,” he...
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Retired microsoft CEO will donate $ 3.8 billion via its Gates foundation to help the philinthropic world. In an interview Bill Gates said he love to work with foundation since his retirement. He love philinthropy. Gates said the foundation is in strong shape despite collapsing financial markets reducing by 20 percent the investments funding its efforts. The...
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The world’s top virus hunters are watching every move made by the attacker in control of a nasty new Internet worm — referred to as “downadup” or “conficker.” What worries them most is that the person, or group, controlling the worm could at any time direct the PCs to carry out criminal activities on an...
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A Microsoft marketing scheme persuading consumers to buy PCs “capable” of running Windows Vista could cost more money than Microsoft made from the program. An expert witness giving evidence in the class-action suit against Microsoft’s Windows Vista Capable program has estimated the cost of upgrading so-called “capable” PCs to machines able to run premium editions...
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Microsoft has issued a third Internet Explorer 8 beta that includes a list of compatible websites for users less than “web savvy”. The IE 8 Release Candidate is the third pre-release version of Microsoft’s browser but the first to include a list of web sites that Microsoft says actually work with its browser. The Compatibility View...
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Blue Coat Systems, Inc.  the leader in WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Lancope®, the provider of the StealthWatch® System – the most widely used Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and response solution, has joined the Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner program to enhance the application intelligence provided by Blue Coat®PacketShaper® appliances with behavioral analysis...
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