Archive for September 20th, 2007
Sep
20
Two senior security veterans from Trend Micro are trying to get the industry to change how it classifies malicious software.
They argue that today's classification system, which tends to focus on the technical way the software works, neglects a far more important metric that matters more to users: how it tries to steal your money.
"This is my
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Sep
20
Vispa is a small software, securing your Windows Vista installation and protecting your privacy. In addition to so-called Antispy features, it disables common security threats and increases your Windows performance. Based on the source-code of the award-winning Xpy version 0.9.8, Vispa allows you to easily tweak your Windows Vista for better privacy and security, even system
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Sep
20
Enterprise companies will soon begin offloading many of their network security responsibilities to telecommunications and Internet service providers and save vast amounts of time and money doing so, if AT&T has its way.
Speaking to the assembled crowd at the IDC Security Forum in New York on Wednesday, Edward Amoroso, chief security officer for AT&T's services division,
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Sep
20
NBC will start offering limited free downloads of shows such as "Heroes" and "The Office" as part of its bid to expand the digital distribution of its programs and compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, the network announced Wednesday.
The new service, dubbed "NBC Direct," will allow users to download episodes to computers running Microsoft
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Sep
20
The AdWords team blog has released a free tool that will make newspaper advertising even easier called “an ad creation tool” that lets anyone design a customized and professional-looking newspaper ad in minutes for Google Print Ads.
Simply plug the text of your ad, image, and
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Sep
20
The AdWords team has recently announced new features for Website Optimizer, including the ability to easily create and launch A/B split experiments. The Website Optimizer team has now put up a new testing strategy called Time on page as a conversion goal. This strategy outlines how to set
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Sep
20
The systems of tomorrow will have additional processor cores that promise to deliver exponential increases in processor capabilities. However, memory and storage systems are not keeping pace with the potential of these processor enhancements. Sometimes fundamental limitations of physics impede progress and economic forces impede the promise of increased performance. This session explores the hierarchy of
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Sep
20
Nathan Weinberg at Inside Google has posted a blog entry on Google closing a security flaw in its new Presentations feature of Google Docs, he starts out with a screen capture of e-mail addresses that were leaked through that flaw. Of course, the addresses are obscured. It's a
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Sep
20
Switcher is free utility for Windows Vista (running Aero) that lets you arrange the windows on your screen in different ways. The default view is the "tile view," which arranges the windows so that you can see all of them, even across multiple monitors. Another view, called the "dock view" magnifies one window and arranges the
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Sep
20
Yesterday IBM announced IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, a new feature of Domino 8.0.1 to support push mail to Windows Mobile devices at no additional cost. This announcement was in addition to the existing partnerships with RIM, Nokia, Motorola's Good Technology, CommonTime, iAnywhere, and Visto.
The Press Release gives details of the support.
Mobile support for Lotus Notes
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Sep
20
Vectir enables you to control popular media or MP3 players such as Winamp, iTunes and Windows Media Player via an infrared remote control. It works with USB infrared receiver devices such as the USBUIRT and Tira2, which pickup signals from most infrared (IR) remote controls and send them to your computer.
In addition to standard media player
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Sep
20
With next week's release of Halo 3, gamers will get their chance to see just what happens to Master Chief at the end of the trilogy.
For Microsoft, it's a golden opportunity to get some positive mojo for the Xbox 360 after a summer's worth of headlines centered around quality problems that forced the company to extend
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Sep
20
Attack code that targets Yahoo Messenger has been published on the Internet, a security researcher warned today, marking the ninth exploit aimed at the popular instant messaging software so far this year.
In a posting to the milw0rm.com Web site, someone identified as "shinnai" disclosed malicious Visual Basic code that allegedly lets attackers feed any file
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Sep
20
Microsoft Corp. today announced that its trademarked HDi™ logo will soon appear on all Toshiba HD DVD players. In addition, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment will include the HDi logo on packaging for HD DVD movie titles beginning in the fourth quarter of this year. HDi technology is Microsoft’s high-performance implementation of the
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Sep
20
Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender has sent a flurry of takedown notices and legal threats to P2P web sites that are facilitating the propagation of a 700MB archive of internal MediaDefender e-mail that was leaked onto the Internet this week. The e-mails, which were obtained by a group that calls itself MediaDefender-Defenders, reveal that
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Random From The P2P sites ridicule MediaDefender takedown notices in wake of e-mail leak
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