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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February155.xml§ion=theuaeBy Asma Ali Zain (Our staff reporter)5 February 2008DUBAI -- An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research Web site.Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables.However, all voice read more »
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206402345By Antone GonsalvesInformationWeekFebruary 11, 2008 The popular BlackBerry mobile device experienced disruptions in service in North America on Monday, but the severity of the outages was unclear, AT&T (NYSE: T) reported.The problems stemmed from the BlackBerry data service provided by Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM), maker of the smartphone that's popular among businesspeople. BlackBerry users contacted by InformationWeek reporte read more »
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A flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers handle an image file could allow an attacker to see what Web sites a person has visited. read more »
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Smart mobile malwareMiscreants have created a ransomware Trojan for mobile phones which has been seen in the wild in China. Kiazha-A, attempts to extort money from users of Symbian Series 60 phones.… read more »
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IFRAME piggybackingHackers have found a new way to get Google to point to malicious websites with the help of unwitting websites such as ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor.… read more »
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There's nothing like telling a good horror story to encourage your employees -- from senior executives to rank-and-file workers -- to do their part in improving IT security. read more »
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Confused and angry users are blasting Microsoft on its own Vista blog over the requirements for downloading SP1 (Service Pack 1). And an industry analyst feels their pain. read more »
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There’s a fine line between protecting a business’ network and sending end users into a help desk-haranguing rampage. ...Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook Free Registration to Insight24 Directory - Access Over 5,000 B2B Webcasts, Podcasts, and Videos. read more »
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A three-year project to infuse privacy controls into identity technologies and emerging social networking communities is being undertaken by IBM Research with funding help from the European Union. read more »
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Tools don't always cut it, particularly if companies don't have dedicated teams to deal with the storm of alerts they send out. ...Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook Free Registration to Insight24 Directory - Access Over 5,000 B2B Webcasts, Podcasts, and Videos. read more »
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This week, our friends at Trend blogged about a new misleading application for the Mac. We decided to take a look at it as well. The application, named iMunizator, is a variant of the well known rogue antivirus product called Macsweeper, which we have blogged about previously. When launched, iMunizator performs a full scan of the system and soon after it reports the “problems” that it found. Worryingly, some of the files detected by iMunizator are actually safe system binaries that should never be removed read more »
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