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Fake Dropbox Email Leads to Malware Infection
Malicious agents continue to use increasingly sophisticated email templates to fool victims into installing malware on their computers. Most recently, people have been falling prey to an email that appears to be from Dropbox.com, a very widely used cloud storage website. The email uses Dropbox artwork and is kept short and to the point: it
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Yahoo Angers Ymail Users with Redesign…Again
Only seven months after a major redesign that many considered a huge flop, Yahoo has unveiled major changes to its Ymail service, and it has its users up in arms again. The new features like conversation threads, themed background images and a massive terabyte of storage are clearly following in Gmail’s footsteps, changes that weren’t
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Rent vs. Buy Debate Comes to Software
Adobe dared what other software companies have only dabbled in doing: converting their entire, hugely popular software library into a rental-only commodity. Why do software companies aspire to this model? As you might suspect, users of expensive software packages like Adobe’s Creative Suite or Microsoft’s Office products are able to enjoy multiple years of use
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Remote Workforce on the Rise
Many of you already know this because you, or your company has partially, or even fully embraced this concept: technology continues to expand the way businesses can take advantage of remote workforces and telecommuting. According to BusinessInsider.com, the number of people working remotely or telecommuting in the US has grown by nearly 80% from 2005
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Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Zero-Day Flaw in IE
As predicted, the zero-day flaw in multiple versions of Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer, is now being actively exploited by multiple APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups in attacks that are targeting large numbers of people. The most publicized and successful of these attacks have been focused on government websites. Their primary purpose: to install rootkits
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Google’s New Advertising Shill: You!
MetaFilter user Andrew Lewis coined a phrase that has become the rallying cry for internet privacy watchdogs over the past 3 years, “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” He was speaking of Digg’s redesign in 2010 in which the emphasis of the site shifted away