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Microsoft has updated its Services Agreement last week, and has begun notifying its users about the change via email. Eager to take advantage of any kind of legitimate opening …
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As the Internet plays an increasingly prominent role in children’s lives, parents are getting increasingly worried about the ease with which undesirable content can be …
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Virus shuts down gas company’s site and offices
The official website and the email servers of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company – the world’s second largest liquefied natural gas company which distributes …
Fake UPS notices deliver malware
Cyber crooks have once again resurrected the old UPS spam email campaign in order to deliver their malicious wares to Internet users, warns Webroot’s Dancho Danchev. As …
Oracle patches Java 0-day, researchers say there’s another one
Oracle has finally issued an update for Java 7 (v 1.7.0_07) which solves the problem of the CVE-2012-4681 vulnerability (which actually consists of two distinct flaws). The …
Chimera: A declarative language for streaming network traffic analysis
Intrusion detection systems play a vital role in network security. Central to these systems is the language used to express policies. Ideally, this language should be …
Effective MySQL Backup and Recovery
Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery offers a no-nonsense approach to one of the most critical tasks of an operational DBA—performing, testing, and verifying backup and …
AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients
A rather industrious piece of malware that – among other things – paves the way for other malware by disabling AV solutions and software update modules has been …
Kaspersky Lab publishes research about Wiper
In April 2012 a series of incidents were publicly reported about a destructive malware program, codenamed Wiper, which was attacking computer systems related to a number of …
Cross-platform Wirenet Trojan targets Mac and Linux users
Since Windows users constitute the majority of computer users around the world, most malware is designed to target that particular OS and software made for it. Still, every …
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