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  • Internet Banking Fraud Sky-rocketing Worldwide

    Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin Comment

    Online banking frauds are on the rise worldwide; people are being robbed of their life long nest-egg daily. Absa Group’s media relation manager, Errol Appleby-Smith said that Internet banking remained a safe and opportune technique of carrying out banking, as long as banks and their customers took extra precautions to make sure constant security. Let’s take for example the case of a Port Elizabeth woman who complained that she got over R6, 000 electronically transferred out of her First National Bank (FNB) account last week, but she was at once notified by an SMS notification on her account and let her made contact to the bank to cancel the transaction. On the other hand, First National Bank (FNB) said it was alert to latest cases that had been reported in the Nelson Mandela Bay area and was assessing each case in person. Errol Appleby-Smith warned of the dangers of banking at Internet cafes, as this is the most happening place from where the majority of crime syndicates are operated. Customers are recommended to protect their PCs by deploying anti-virus and Anti-Spyware. The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) said that identity theft was a challenge being encountered by the banking industry today.

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  • US House Says Yes to Anti-spyware Bill

    Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin Comment

    Advertisers who make use of spyware to keep track of online consumers will now be encountered with a new enemy to wrestle with. Reuters recently reported that the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee shown a green flag to a bill, which is said to call for software vendors and advertisers to noticeably inform and get approval from consumers ahead of loading spyware programs onto their PCs. According to the proposed bill, which will be next tabled to the whole committee for being considered, violators might be penalized up to $3 m for each unfair or deceiving act. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, was quoted as saying, Protecting Internet Users from dangerous programs that steal consumers’ identities, invade their software or just plain harass them is a top priority. Though spyware is generally thought as a malicious method by loads of online advertisers, “Fishing From a Barrel” author Rob Graham cautioned that spyware is often puzzled with adware. Numerous legal advertisers can be trapped in the legal squabbling over spyware due to the resemblances, Graham puts in writing in his book, squabbling that the evil spyware apps might finally sink legal adware campaigns.

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  • WatchGuard Intros Firebox X Core and Peak Security Appliances

    Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin Comment

    WatchGuard recently released its new generation of Firebox X Core and Peak security suites for mid-sized enterprises with the leading deliverance of Fireware 9.0. software, which is claimed to radically augment the performance and functionality of the Firebox X Core and Peak security suites to provide network administrators a new level of grainy control and constancy. The latest deliverance also comes with novel best of the breed built-in networking sports such as backup for IKE 3rd party certificates, VPN failover, drag-and-drop VPN tunnel formation, VLAN, QoS, policy-enabled routing, load balancing, multi-WAN failover and high accessibility with firewall rules. Both suites are claimed to provide absolute UTM solutions like Anti-Spyware, anti-spam, anti-virus, intrusion prevention and URL filtering. Firebox X Core suites are touted to be perfect for small and mid-sized businesses with 50 to 750 users and with the capabilities of 300+ Mbps of firewall throughput. Firebox X Peak appliances is capable of giving support to 500 to 2000 users with 2.0 Gbps of firewall throughput. The majority of Firebox X Core and Peak suites are able to simply be enhanced to higher models in the product line by the easy app of a license key, which enables enterprises to adjust and spread out to cater the developing requirements.

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  • Comcast in Denver

    Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin Comment

    Comcast enjoys hegemony the field of cable service provider in the United States of America. Comcast not only provides cable services but coupled with that it provides high speed internet services, which has several plans to choose from. Comcast is also known for providing telephone services.

    In September 30, 2010 Comcast had 22.9 million cable customers; the number is evident of the enormity of the market share which the firm enjoys in the field of cable TV. Comcast Denver, the office which it has in Denver, Colorado also enjoys great business and has several customers under its belt. Now coming toward the services which have been provided by the telecommunication giant is cable TV, telephony and internet access, which is combined into an umbrella brand name of Xfinity.

    The Comcast cable TV network which is known for giving economical quality services in Denver and rest of the US. The cable TV by Comcast known as XFINITY TV has three major plans to offer to its customers. The first is the digital starter plan in which the customer has to pay around $29.99 per month and view 80+ channels.  The second subscription package which has been given by the service provider to its customer is Digital preferred plan where in you will have a lineup of 160 channels at a price tag of $39.99 per month. Last plan which is offered by the cable service provider is the Digital Premier which lets the customer view 200 channels include all major sports channel for $84 per month.

    The other service provided by Comcast is internet, where in there is a myriad of plans to chose from, the plan ranges from $39.95 per month to $199.95 per month, and the bandwidth ranges from 1.5 Mbps to a supersonic 105 Mbps.

    Last service offered by Comcast is the XFINITY telephone services where the customer will be allowed to make unlimited local and distance calls in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada by sticking to a specific plan. The other auxiliary benefits incorporate of Call Waiting, 3-Way Call Waiting, and Universal Caller ID either on your TV or PC and other exciting services.   We can conclude that Comcast, till date, is un-replaceable in the field of telecommunications in the US.

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  • Beware of doc attacks, warn security experts

    Posted on February 16, 2012 by admin Comment

    At the recent Infosecurity Europe 2007, security experts came up with the warning of hack attacks and data theft, which are being made simpler with the utilization of out of sight executables and an ultra-modern variation on the microdot spying technique. The security expert said that the 1st attack of the attacker is to put in an executable malware file in a Word document, which on being opened breaks down the PC and the malware is automatically laden while the PC reboots. This technique is said to be cunning, as anti-virus product are not capable enough to find out this type of attack. Many legacy Word code is said to be ready for this type of attack. It is the attack vector of choice for hostile intelligence agencies and professional criminals. The 2nd method is a variation of the conventional spying technique of microdotting, where info is snapped and condensed to the size of a dot and pasted into a document. The latest method seems to be equivalent, however makes use of text boxes in Word docs. Confidential info can be pasted into a text box and after that the box is condensed and positioned in the doc to bear a resemblance to a punctuation mark. However anti-virus purveyors are confident that present security systems would prevent the 1st type of attack. Read

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  • McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro join army to augment signature-based methodology

    Posted on February 16, 2012 by admin Comment

    Considering constant attacks of hackers, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, the three leading security vendors are joining forces to enhance decades-old methodology, which is now seen as an insufficient defense against the internet-borne threats. They are said not to be discarding signature-based defense, which needs detecting a specific malware sample to generate a matching signature so as to spot and remove it. A few of the latest methods being devised by them are going to be unveiled as products this year. Brian Foster, Symantec’s senior director for product management, who notes the security firm receives 200,000 submissions of potential malware each month, was quoted saying, Everyone agrees signature-based defense is not enough. The number of variants is increasing. With the aim of enhancing signature-based detection in its next enterprise anti-virus release set to be brought out this summer, Symantec is intended for incorporating white-listing technology for policy-enabled control of apps down to a software-component level. Foster says that this avant-garde malware protection as of Symantec is also claimed to make use of behavior blocking that boasts of stopping as a minimum a few malware from executing, holding it ‘in a unmoving condition on that system.’ The three leading giant claims that the core of their strategy is that they will change the game. Read

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  • HCL’s EC2 technology claims to cut down time and space

    Posted on February 16, 2012 by admin Comment

    HCL Infosystems recently announced the a new technology, which boasts of reduce time and space to get back lost data. Speaking high of the latest technology, HCL purports that the built-in constancy and control technology covers 0.07% of hard disk space to bring about snapshots. Plus, the EC2 photographs the complete system within the similar hard disk drive but for generating a different partition. To be availed in ‘HCL Non Stop Series’, the EC2-based notebooks are said to be capable of getting back all data lost while system collapses within a minute. A few of the normal tribulations that can be tackled by EC2 are: system down at critical moments, unintentional file/folder removal or overwrite, system corruption caused by viruses, spyware or Trojans, unintentional formatting of any of the hard disk partitions, corruption of registry files & folders, blue screen errors, system breakdown after patch updates, uninstallation of software and apps, system breakdown on being deployed latest software/application and OS collapse due to virus attack. The technology gives support to Microsoft Win XP and Vista operating systems. EC2 is said to handle all the info on the local hard disk. No third-party media is needed to sprint HCL EC2. Read

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  • SecureMac releases MacScan 2.4 anti-spyware security software

    Posted on February 16, 2012 by admin Comment

    SecureMac recently announced to have come up with MacScan 2.4, the newest update of SecureMac’s industry primary anti-spyware package for Macintosh computers. The SecureMac team is aimed at making available a protected and trustworthy product to the Macintosh community. MacScan 2.4 is claimed to make available many vulnerability fixes and augmentations over MacScan 2.3.1 to the company’s flagship security software. Ahead of buying MacScan, the Macintosh community required more time. As well as, in the spirit of Macintosh accessibility, Internet file-cleaning selections are now said to be protected, and are simple to be reprocessed on forthcoming scans. The latest version is also said to patch up many problems detected in previous versions, with enhancements to the elimination of Firefox tracking cookies, as well as enhancements to the way MacScan claims to eliminate tracking cookies from all browsers. The latest updates from prior versions of MacScan 2 can be had at no cost, and by either selecting “Upgrade MacScan” under the “MacScan” menu, or making a download of the demo version from Securemac .

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  • LANDesk to offer Host-based IPS Zero-day attack protection

    Posted on February 15, 2012 by admin Comment

    LANDesk Software recently announced the unveiling of its Host Intrusion Prevention suite, a behaviour-based security monitoring, alerting and remediation offering. Host-enabled intrusion prevention systems is said to rise above usual anti-virus software in giving protection to PCs founded on the system’s behaviour. The Host Intrusion Prevention system boasts of protecting from rootkits, zero-day threats and other malware, as said by Landesk. Dissimilar to the signature-enabled scanning technology utilized by famous anti-virus and anti-spyware deliverances, Landesk’s toolkit technology does not depend only on previously present signatures and pattern files for detection of malware. Rather, it makes use of rules-enabled technology that looks at network traffic and machine behaviour to make out incongruities or occurrences of security policy breaches founded upon pre-defined rules fixed by security and IT administrators. The Host Intrusion Prevention kit is included with security-augmenting potentials like application access control with the help of white listing, and file behaviour analysis and security via policy-enabled remediation. It is also said to be delivering immediate spying of machine start-up commands, rootkit finding and elimination, and finding of uncertified clients and Internet servers.

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  • Teenager Charged for hacking into AOL databases

    Posted on February 14, 2012 by admin Comment

    A New York teenager has been accused of hacking into AOL and pilfering database records of its customers. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office complained against seventeen-year-old Mike Nieves for suspected PC tampering, PC trespass, and criminal possession of computer material. Nieves purportedly burglarized AOL’s PC network between December 24, 2006 and April 7, 2007 and made access to databases having customer billing records, addresses, and credit card info. He is also accused of infesting systems at an AOL customer support call center in New Delhi, India, with a program to funnel info back to his PC. The complaint also charges that Nieves accessed and pilfered other people’s AIM instant messaging accounts, made an attempt to burglarize an AOL customer support system and busy in a phishing attack against AOL staff. Nieves, who was accused this week and stays in custody, face four felony charges and one offense charge. His suspected acts cost AOL over $500,000.

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