President Obama on Thursday named former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel the federal government's Chief Information Officer. [......]
Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Website analytics company KISSMetrics licensed out a technology to dozens of companies, including streaming media companies Hulu and Spotify, that let them implant a tracking tag in a user's browser history that could "respawn" if deleted. Now, the company and its licensees are being sued. UC Berkley School of Law posted a study at the end of July that revealed the use of these persistent cookies[......]
Optimizing your PC's performance can be a tricky and complex business, but the best place to start is by benchmarking its current speed, ideally with real-life tests such as the time it takes to launch some of your larger applications. Once that's done then it's easy to measure how your system changes over time[......]
With hacking becoming an increasing concern as of late with the work of decentralized groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec making headlines, concerns over state-sponsored intrusions has abated. McAfee has brought those fears back to the forefront thanks to a whitepaper released on Wednesday. [......]
SUPERAntiSpyware 5 has just been released, in what the authors are calling "our most significant update ever". [......]
With the focus lately being on the security holes within iOS , media attention on flaws within Android has subsided. [......]
AVG's Internet Security 2011 offers all the major components you'd expect from a security suite: antivirus, a decent spam filter, effective capable firewall, browsing protection, identity protection and a range of interesting extras. Sounds great, and it's just as good in real life. Plainly AVG wasn't satisfied, though, and the company has now released an enhanced version, AVG Premium Security 2011 , which extends the original suite with a couple of additional functions. [......]
Personally, I never understood what got people so excited about Barack Obama. But back in 2008 people were positively gooey about him, and one of the lesser reasons was "cybersecurity"[......]
CyberLink released YouCam 5 this week. Although it's not an application that may be on everyone's radar, the new version does have a couple of interesting new features for serious users, one of these being facial recognition technology. This will enable you to login to Windows or Facebook without the need to remember your password[......]
PortableApps.com has released the latest build of its upcoming Platform 2.0, Pre-Release 2.1 , a suite of tools which makes it easy to create and manage your own customised portable toolkit. The Platform's Portable App Directory, for instance, is a capable app store[......]
Users still clinging to Windows XP like that fast and gnarly Trans Am from yesteryear that's just too familiar to part with have yet another reason to consider a new ride. According to security firm Avast, XP is a fertile breeding ground for cyber infection, especially for rootkits, of which 74 percent of infections originated from in a recent six-month study cataloging over 630,000 samples. [......]
Are our computers too smart for our own good? [......]
BitDefender today released its 2012 family of security suites, which have been enhanced with a range of new and interesting features. [......]
The Metropolitan Police claimed yesterday that they had arrested prominent Lulz Security and AnonOps member Topiary. The initial report claimed that a 19-year-old man was arrested in the Shetland Islands and was being flown down to London for questioning. That report has now been adjusted , saying that he was in fact an 18 -year-old man. [......]
Security vendor AVG Technologies today announced a new top-tier antivirus suite, AVG Premium Security. The new suite includes everything you'll find in AVG's Internet Security package plus aggressive identity protection[......]
