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  • Internet hit by wave of ransom malware

    Criminals re-used an attack from 2008 to hit the Internet with a huge wave of ransomware in recent weeks, a security company has reported.In the space of only two days, 8 and 9 February, the HTML/Goldun.AXT campaign detected by Fortinet…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Wave • Rogue • Malware • Detected • Campaign • Assumes

  • Copycat China Google hacks are on pace to double this year

    A PDF or other attachment to the email contains malware that exploits a PDF weakness and launches a Trojan when the attachment is opened. One email message purportedly written by a CNN reporter seeks an interview with the email recipient and says…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Phishing • Pdf • Ip Addresses • Governments • Attachments • Attachment

  • Shell employee details leaked to campaigners

    Shell said the payment did not mean it accepted responsibility.Shell's IT security systems and procedures apparently failed to prevent an email being sent by disaffected staff to campaigners, with an attachment of the contact details of its…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Telephone • Rights • Measures • Employees • Employee

  • China hackers tried to hit India, Times says

    It said it detected a sophisticated and targeted attack on its corporate infrastructure originating from China, that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from the company.The attack on India came through an email with a PDF attachment…
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Advisor • Offices • Hack • India • China • Hacker

  • Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google, Adobe, says researcher

    This was an attack launched via a convincing email with an exploit-ridden PDF attachment," Hypponen said today in a telephone interview. Adobe confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Hackers • Patched • Confirmed • Adobe • Incident • Largescale

  • Microsoft left Windows 7 open to hackers, says Sophos

    Wisniewski then ran each piece of malware, as if a user had been duped into launching a file attachment or had surfed to a malicious site and been victimized by an drive-by attack and subsequent silent download.Of the 10 samples, two would not run…
    06 November 2009
    Tags: Malware • Sophos • Account • Antivirus Software • Security Essentials • Uac

Latest Features

  • Microsoft SharePoint addons reveal exciting features

    And the addin works online and off and can convert attachments to SharePoint links as part of its attachment management capability.The other Contributor interfaces are available in the pro client or individually.
    16 December 2009
    Tags: Studio • Folders • Repository • Sql Server • Administrator • Structure

  • Turbocharge web browsing with Greasemonkey scripts

    Gmail Attachment Icons With nearly 7GB of storage space, and counting, available, you probably share more file attachments through email than ever before. The Gmail Attachment Icons script embeds small icons in place of the generic catch all to…
    14 December 2009
    Tags: Words • Icon • Attachments • Script • Icons • Addon

  • Ten free open source programs to treasure

    To scan for a virus with ClamWin, you need to manually initiate the process by selecting a suspect file and choosing the ClamWin option in the pop-up context menu.Assuming you can live with a manual tool (some users may actually prefer it…
    17 August 2009
    Tags: Transfers • Scenarios • Parameters • Media Player • Landscape • Ftp

  • Utility storage: Ready for a long haul?

    I do not know nor particularly care which drives are involved," he says.The 3Par system, which includes a mix of Advanced Technology Attachment and fast Fibre Channel drives, moves data automatically among storage tiers, Schaffer says.
    21 May 2008
    Tags: Flow • Utilisation • Disaster Recovery • Split • Gains • Architect

  • NASA employee scammed with "dating" attack

    Taylor noted that this case focused on the NASA employee but two other victims were considered part of the same scheme so there most likely will be no further prosecution.According to Taylor and an investigator with NASA's Office of the Inspector…
    12 May 2008
    Tags: Spyware • Crime • Accounts • Passwords • Detected • Attachment

  • How dangerous malware is becoming invisible

    These attacks often still start with an email spam run but the attachment in the email has been replaced by a web link, which takes you to the malicious website. The amount of new malware has never been higher.
    11 April 2008
    Tags: Clicking • Labs • Loads • Ftp • Sends • Spreading

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How-Tos

  • How to get an Apple iPad for work

    That means you're going to have to start thinking about increasing quota size, and perhaps being more generous with attachment sizes, at least for e-mail between local users. Will the iPad fit in with your network?
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Presentations • Mac Os • Keynote • Iphones • Ignore • Assuming

  • How to repair Microsoft Windows remotely

    After you receive and click on the attachment, you must enter the password to start the connection to the remote PC. In Windows 7, you can opt to send an email, save the invitation as a file to be sent as an attachment, or use Easy Connect, which…
    25 November 2009
    Tags: Panel • Menus • Recording • Instant Messaging • Agents • Session

  • How to avoid joining a botnet

    It is just another string to your bow, so to speak.Tip 3: Be a little more careful when you get a link or an attachment.Don't just blindly click on things and rely on other people to protect your computer," noted Santorelli.
    20 November 2009
    Tags: House • Steve • Patching • Compromised • Banks • Attachment

  • The problem with S/MIME email encryption

    At the very least, users can no longer retrieve past emails based upon message text keyword searches, although the email subject line and some other information, such as file attachment name, may remain visible.This may sound merely bothersome at…
    09 November 2009
    Tags: Emails • Packets • Scan • Method • Archiving • Encrypted

  • Understanding malware attack techniques

    You don't have to download anything or click any links on the poisoned page.User interaction required: You might think that you'd have to download a file or open an attachment to get hit by an attack described in this way.
    08 September 2008
    Tags: Proof • Concept • Fix • Denial • Dangerous • Eyes

  • Ten tips for ultra-safe browsing

    Every now and then, a well-crafted attack can slip past your defences and lure you into opening a poisonous email attachment or downloaded file. Use VirusTotal to check every email attachment and download you're not 100 percent sure about, and you…
    13 August 2008
    Tags: Scans • Signature • Upload • Attachment • Secunia • Guarantee

Reviews

  • PDF Reader Pro for iPhone review

    After all, you can download them right from the phone's Safari browser or when you receive a PDF attachment. After all, you can download them right from the phone's Safari browser or when you receive a PDF attachment.
    26 August 2009
    Tags: Dedicated • Reader • Pdf • Safari • Attachment • Mail

  • NEO Pro 4.0 review

    Messages are sorted by correspondent, date (and within the date folder, they're broken out by recent days, weeks, and months), category, status (whether you've assigned a follow-up action, for example), and attachments.NEO Pro's handling of…
    14 July 2009
    Tags: Fix • Restore • Folder • Bulk • Outlook • Resulted

  • Kodak Zi6 camcorder review

    Press a button next to the lens and, apeing the Flip, a USB arm flicks out from the side for attachment to a PC or laptop. For a pocket camcorder, Kodak's Zi6 Pocket Video Camera has a ton of features and shoots video with surprisingly bright colours.
    01 May 2009
    Tags: Pocket • Batteries • Arm • Landscape • Noise • Lcd

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 beta review

    A 30MB attachment to people who have 20MB attachment size limits on their mailboxes? Microsoft Exchange 2010 is light on wholesale changes and heavy on refinements. The last big release of Microsoft Exchange, Exchange Server 2007, marked a major…
    16 April 2009
    Tags: Continuous • Exchange Server • Night • Outlook • Pick • Usability

  • LG HBS-250 headphones

    The fit is ideal for small ears, which means that folks with extra-large ears may find the fit too tight.Unfortunately, every time we donned the LG HBS-250 headphones, we had to fiddle with the ear loops to get a secure attachment, and there still…
    15 April 2009
    Tags: Music • Lg • Bluetooth • Button • Volume • Buttons

  • Postbox

    There are other tie-ins that allow for uploading an attachment to Google Docs, for instance, or sending a link to your Del.icio.us account without leaving Postbox.Postbox can quickly pull in messages from a Gmail, Yahoo Mail Plus!
    19 February 2009
    Tags: Message • Messages • Folder • Picture • Attachments • Account

White Papers

  • The Top Ten Ways to Fix Email

    Search should be sufficiently rich in that just about any syntactic criteria can be fair game - message content, attachment types, attachment content, web URL content, sender, receiver, sending or receiving domain, dates, tags/labels, and so on.
    30 November 2007
    Tags: Criteria • Folders • Archive • Folder • Browsing • Search

  • E-mail Archiving: Analysing Return on Investment

    Through an archive process that is essentially transparent to the users, these messages are moved into a scalable, searchable archive that is highly optimised for the storage of email.The key to the cost savings is the optimization of the storage…
    16 July 2007
    Tags: Savings • Volumes • Productivity • Archive • Archiving • Data Storage

  • The Anatomy of IM Threats

    The targeted person is encouraged to click on a web link or open an attachment or image file enclosed in the IM.Once opened or downloaded the infected message forwards itself instantly to all names on the victim's IM buddy list.
    13 April 2007
    Tags: Threats • Worms • Spread • Hosts • Propagated • Infect

  • The Seven Common Myths about Customer Loyalty and the Realities Behind Them

    This is a contradiction in terms since the word loyalty manifests an unconditional and unwavering attachment to something. There are many different and often conflicting notions about issues related to customer loyalty that are being held as…
    23 March 2007
    Tags: Language • Logic • Attachment • Myths • Loyalty • Trait

  • Q2 2005 Virus Roundup

    Using numerous topics as its subject, it arouses users' curiosity to open the email attachment. Significant malware for the period of May to June 2005 include: the breakthrough bot worm family, WORM_MYTOB, which caused more than half of midyear…
    21 January 2007
    Tags: Technique • Spyware • Family • Trojan • Worms • Alerts

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