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Botnet price for hourly hire on par with cost of two pints

...or technical expertise is needed to carry out attacks, according to VeriSign iDefense. The cybersecurity intellgence arm of VeriSign said on Monday that it carried... Read more

25 May, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

iDefense: 1.5 million Facebook accounts for sale

...In a worrying development for Facebook users concerned about security, iDefense Labs has found a hacker offering 1.5 million Facebook user accounts... Read more

23 April, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Start-up reignites bug-disclosure debate

...products, and participating in ongoing, formal bug-reporting programmes offered by TippingPoint, iDefense and the Mozilla Foundation.: Back in 2005, TippingPoint launched its Zero Day... Read more

3 August, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

Reporting software flaws safely

...and researchers. Still others simply sell their discoveries to security companies, like iDefense, which take on all the risks and work with the vendor to... Read more

8 June, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

iDefense offers bounty for Vista and IE7 flaws

Security intelligence and analysis company iDefense is to offer an $8,000 bounty for vulnerabilities found in Vista... Read more

11 January, 2007 by Tom Espiner

iDefense ups ante for bounty hunters

Security intelligence company iDefense has sweetened its offer to hackers who sell it details on new... Read more

27 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

McAfee security problem exposed

...same computer break into one another's files, according to security consultant iDefense. The vulnerability, which exists in the default settings applied during installation, gives... Read more

20 April, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

CA flaws opens users up to DoS attacks

...denial-of-service attacks, according to an advisory by security research company iDefense. The flaw enables a writer of malicious code to disable CA's... Read more

7 April, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems

...not affected by the flaw. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at iDefense, who claim that the OpenOffice TIFF parsing code is flawed. "When parsing... Read more

25 September, 2007 by Liam Tung

Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals

...Facebook evolves from a University alumini network into an enterprise tool, VeriSign iDefense security experts are warning that the platform is turning into a prime... Read more

30 July, 2007 by Liam Tung

UK users targeted by banking Trojan

...and they remain valid, said Ramses Martinez, a director at security firm iDefense. The intruders are then likely to store the data either for their... Read more

27 March, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

Backup software hit with security alerts

...the flaws, EMC noted. The three vulnerabilities were outlined by security company iDefense on Tuesday. By contrast, companies that use Veritas NetBackup are more likely... Read more

19 January, 2006 by Joris Evers

WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?

...to say they are backdoors." Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign, also doesn't buy Gibson's theory. "Microsoft... Read more

16 January, 2006 by Joris Evers

Sober worm poised to strike again

...in the version of Sober that hit the Net on 22 November, iDefense, part of VeriSign, said in a statement Wednesday. Infected machines are set... Read more

8 December, 2005 by Joris Evers

Windows exploit code threat multiplies

...against this stuff," Manzuik said. Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign, agreed. "These vulnerabilities were patched, so fortunately clients... Read more

2 December, 2005 by Joris Evers

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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