Students find problems with Windows 7 upgrade

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 26 October 2009 12:50 pm

Microsoft’s discount Windows 7 upgrade for students has proven to be a tough assignment for some of those who signed up for the offer. The software maker is offering students the option of buying a downloadable upgrade version of Windows 7 for $29–a significant savings off the full boxed copy of the new operating system. [...]

Windows 7 System Requirements

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 19 October 2009 7:16 am

On October 22, Microsoft will be releasing its new operating system, Windows 7. If you’ve shopped for a computer in the past weeks you might have noticed the shelves seem a bit empty. The reason for this (other than the decline of Desktop PC sales this year) is because manufacturers are waiting on the Windows [...]

DDoS attacks get cheaper

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 19 October 2009 6:35 am

IDG News Service – Cyber-crime just doesn’t pay like it used to. Security researchers say the cost of criminal services such as distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks has dropped in recent months. The reason? Market economics. “The barriers to entry in that marketplace are so low you have people basically flooding the market,” [...]

Delta Air Lines sued over alleged e-mail hacking

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 19 October 2009 6:30 am

IDG News Service – Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation that would allow access to food, water and toilets during long delays on the tarmac. Kathleen Hanni, executive director of Flyersrights.org, alleges Delta obtained sensitive e-mails and files and used the material [...]

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Tuesday 13 October 2009 9:47 pm

Recent studies have shown the importance of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is still widely underestimated by the general public when browsing the internet. While the study by Tyler Reguly, senior security engineer for nCircle, shows 83% of users check for SSL before entering their credit card information, only 41% do so when typing in passwords. [...]

Protecting Your Privacy

Posted by Alex | Other,Tech News | Friday 9 October 2009 5:51 am

Cyber Security Tip ST04-013 Protecting Your Privacy Before submitting your email address or other personal information online, you need to be sure that the privacy of that information will be protected. To protect your identity and prevent an attacker from easily accessing additional information about you, avoid providing certain personal information such as your birth [...]

Security researchers develop DoS attack filter

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Tuesday 6 October 2009 10:22 am

Researchers have come up with host-based security software that blocks distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) without swamping the memory and CPU of the host machines. The filtering, called identity-based privacy-protected access control (IPCAF), can also prevent session hijacking, dictionary attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks, say researchers at Auburn University in their paper, “Modeling and simulations for Identity-Based [...]

Microsoft Confirms Hotmail Phishing Attack

Posted by Alex | Security Alerts,Tech News | Tuesday 6 October 2009 10:18 am

Several thousand Hotmail usernames and passwords were exposed on over the weekend via a phishing attack, Microsoft confirmed late on Monday. Microsoft said it would block access to the accounts that were exposed and work with customers to reclaim access to them. “Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials [...]

Snow Leopard update fixes Adobe Flash issue

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Wednesday 16 September 2009 11:30 pm

Apple on Thursday released a relatively minor update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard that fixes an issue users had with the operating system that downgraded them to an older version of Adobe Systems’ Flash Player. When Apple released Snow Leopard on August 28, it included an older version of Adobe’s Flash plug-in that was [...]

Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts netting millions

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Wednesday 16 September 2009 11:28 pm

A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7 million in restitution, as well as a condo, jewelry, and a car.

New scam adds live chat to phishing attack

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Wednesday 16 September 2009 11:25 pm

Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday.

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