New security features include an antiphishing filter that warns you if you happen across a known phishing site, better ActiveX management, and programming changes that try to reduce the number of avenues for attack. Also offered is a one-click option to clear your personal browsing data, including the history, cookies, and the cache.
Spyware is a major problem infecting personal computers in the Cadillac area and throughout the world. Some experts believe that it is now a more serious problem than Internet viruses.
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Hackers will often attack the most popular programs and platforms to cause maximum damage. With several recent exploitations of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, that may mean that it is no longer just a scary world for Windows users.
By Will Sturgeon
An experiment carried out within London’s square mile has revealed that employees in some of the City’s best known financial services companies don’t care about basic security policy.
CDs were handed out to commuters as they entered the City by employees of IT skills specialist The Training Camp and recipients were told the disks contained a special Valentine’s Day promotion.
Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots , which run autonomously.
The number and sophistication of phishing scams sent out to consumers is continuing to increase dramatically. While online banking and e-commerce is very safe, as a general rule you should be careful about giving out your personal financial information over the Internet. The Anti-Phishing Working Group has compiled a list of recommendations below that you can use to avoid becoming a victim of these scams.
Phishing as defined in the Anti-Phishing Working Group website:
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use ’spoofed’ e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware.
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Anti-virus vendor Sophos has released an update of the Inqtana-B
virus identity file for it Sophos Anti-Virus for OS X software due to
false positives,” Tom Sanders reports for vnunet.com. “The company
initially released an antidote that incorrectly flagged various files
in Microsoft Office 2004 and in Adobe Acrobat Reader as being infected
with the OS X worm. Users in some cases reported that the anti-virus
software claimed over 1,000 infections… the anti-virus program will
block access or delete all ‘infected’ files, depending on the
software’s configurations. This effectively renders the systems useless.
File Name: WindowsXP-KB913538-x86-ENU.exe
Version: 913538
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB913538
Date Published: 2/21/2006
Language: English
Download Size: 657 KB
Estimated Download Time: 2 min 56K
Install this update to prevent Windows Management Instrumentation
enumerations from being canceled before the client computer can finish
using the enumerations. After you install this item, you may have to
restart your computer.
If you think you private information on the Internet is safe from prying eyes, think again. The advancement of such technology has made more information readily available to government investigators than ever before which give them more powers eaving a treasure trove of personal data prey to government surveillance, a new report warned.
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