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BlackBerry Faithful: Your Day is Approaching
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the once-dominant BlackBerry platform, has announced the launch date of its BlackBerry 10 phones to be January 30 by all the major US carriers except Sprint, who has promised a BB10 phone later in the year. Many analysts believe that this launch is the last-ditch effort by RIM to
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Facebook Debuts New Search Functionality
Facebook has announced the arrival of a new feature dubbed “Graph Search” which will allow its users to create custom pages that are built from content derived from plain-language search phrases, such as “People who like the things I like.” Graph Search will store that query as a page that can be revisited, and as
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Java 7 Flaw Prompts Widespread Warnings
Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a broad warning about using the latest version of the Java 7 plug-in for web browsers, and some browser manufacturers have already taken steps to disable Java application execution until the vulnerability can be fixed. The security flaw is already being exploited in
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Is Your Webserver a Double-agent?
Over the past four months, many of the Western world’s largest banking institution websites have been under attack by a well-organized and funded cyber “brigade” that is allegedly part of the US-branded terrorist group “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam” – the military arm of Hamas. Aside from the publicly-stated political agenda motivating the attacks, little else was
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Latest Zero-Day IE Exploit Still Vulnerable after MS Patch
According to security firm Exodus, the patch to Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 released on December 31 only fixed one of several ways to exploit a weakness in Microsoft’s browser. In their research on this exploit, Exodus continued to develop more aggressive ways to exploit the documented weakness and in doing so, uncovered a
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Stolen Laptop Equals $50k Fine
Thanks to the commoditization of computer hardware, it’s possible to buy a serviceable laptop that costs less than $500 brand new. This has resulted in many companies relaxing the restrictions they had on their purchase and use, but a small healthcare provider in North Idaho learned a harsh lesson that hardware costs are the least
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