Kaspersky Lab has released an article entitled “The Perils of the Internet” authored by malware analyst Eugene Aseev. As the title suggests, this article looks at the threats which make web surfing risky.
Today, attacks launched over the Internet are both the most numerous type of threat, as well as the most dangerous. In Q2 2010 Kaspersky Lab products blocked over 157 million attempts to infect computers via the Internet. This article answers questions such as “How does a computer get infected during web surfing?” and “Who profits from Internet attacks?” Read the rest of this entry »
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Employees surfing the Internet or chatting on social networking sites during office hours are costing companies of millions of ringgit annually in lost productivity.
This has caused some employers to ban Internet access at the workplace as they find the “freedom” given to staff members too costly.
Fashion retailer Voir Holdings Bhd recently banned employees from going online after 5% of its employees were caught using office computers to access Facebook and other networking sites. This did not include those tweeting on their mobile phones.
Its managing director Ham Hon Kit said in an interview that his company might risk losing up to RM2.4mil a year if employees spent two work hours a day on such sites. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Android vs. Apple battle has officially made its way into the world of tablets.
Samsung took the wraps off its new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch slate built to complete with the current tablet king, Apple’s thus-far-unchallenged iPad.
Sure, there have been a couple other Android tablets on the market already (see Streak, Dell), but the Galaxy Tab is the first that truly qualifies as a contender. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kaspersky Lab, the world’s leading cyber security company said that it will be investing some US$2million in its India operations.
“We currently have around 800 partners, which we plan to double by the end of the next calendar,” said its managing director (south Asia), Gun Suk Ling. She told media persons that the company was studying various cities in the country to set up an R&D and a call centre to cater to its customer base across south Asia.
In the last three years, Kaspersky had sold 2 million licences in India and is expecting to grow by 130 per cent in 2010. The company has Hyderabad-headquartered Zoom Technologies and Pune-based Sakri IT Solutions as its exclusive distributors. The relationship with them would continue, she said.
Stating that the Indian anti-virus market is pegged at $200 million (consumer $80 million and enterprise $120 million), Ling said the company’s current market share in the country was 15 per cent in the consumer segment and less than five per cent in the enterprise space (which also includes the government sector). Read the rest of this entry »
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Intel will acquire Infineon Technologies’ wireless division for US$1.4 billion, the company said Monday.
The acquisition of Infineon’s wireless division could help Intel grow faster in the high-volume smartphone market, where the company has minimal presence. Most smartphones today carry chips designed by rival Arm, and Intel has had its eye on the smartphone market as the volume of chips for mobile devices outpaces traditional CPUs that go into PCs. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 30th, 2010 in
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Facebook announced that it is ending support for Internet Explorer 6. Granted, it is only pulling the plug on IE6 in its chat function, but the move by Facebook is the latest effort to shift away from the outdated browser that refuses to die. Facebook’s decision illustrates once again why organizations that still rely on IE6 should consider upgrading (finally).
A Facebook Blog post describes the issue behind the decision “Many of you have told us that sometimes your Chat session comes and goes or even stops completely. We’re working hard to end those interruptions so that your experience is stable and consistent.”
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Cyber Security company Kaspersky Lab has detected a new family of IM worms capable of spreading via several IM clients simultaneously, including Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Paltalk Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and the XFire client for gamers.
The new family of IM worms, which Kaspersky Lab named the family IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll, uses 13 different languages, including English, German, Spanish and Portuguese, sending users in various countries messages in a language that they will understand.
IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll has backdoor functionality, which means it can gain control of a computer without the user’s knowledge. Once it has penetrated a system, the worm contacts a remote command and control center. After receiving its instructions from the center via IRC, IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll starts downloading other malicious programs.
More details after the jump.
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We hosting company GoDaddy is offering a new promotion on .COM domains.
The .COM domains now cost at a cheap price for only $1.17 on Godaddy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of the new IT security magazine Secureview. The non-profit quarterly edition aims to raise awareness of IT security issues among the wider public by actively targeting users in all segments of the market.
SECUREVIEW is an electronic publication that provides information about all aspects of the IT security industry. Read the rest of this entry »
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Adobe has shipped a Shockwave Player update to fix 20 security holes, some serious enough to lead to system takeover attacks.
The vulnerabilities, rated “critical,” affect Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh.
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August 25th, 2010 in
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