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Google Panda algorithm update benefits news sites

...Google's sweeping changes to web site rankings have roiled the web industry, including the company's announcement on... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Chrome tool aims to intercept malware delivery

...how website code executes to see if commands could lead to cross-site scripting or other attacks used to deliver malware to computers via a... Read more

22 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Facebook locked in 'arms race' with spammers

...scam detection system, company spokesman Fred Wolens told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News on Monday. "There are new methods they've picked up... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Facebook bolsters user security features

...users from malware and from getting their accounts hijacked. Credit: Facebook The site will display warnings when users are about to be duped by clickjacking... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Alibaba executives resign amid supplier fraud probe

...Alibaba.com, the largest e-commerce site in China, has announced that two senior executives had resigned after an... Read more

22 February, 2011 by Steven Musil

Ofcom to review site-blocking in Digital Economy Act

...Hunt said in a statement. "But it is not clear whether the site-blocking provisions in the act could work in practice, so I have... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Ben Woods

Twitter users hit by 'WTF' viral message

...hack, which the social-media company fixed on Sunday, used a cross-site request forgery technique to automatically post from an infected user's account... Read more

27 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Twitter patches JavaScript hack

...Twitter has patched a hack which directed users to third-party sites, including adult websites. The company's status feed identified the hack as... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Facebook fixes hole that let in spam

...The apps, which appeared to be sending people to a survey web site, were disabled on Monday. "Earlier this week, we discovered a bug that... Read more

8 September, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Lib Dems call for halt to copyright crackdown

...17 and 18 of the act. These sections, which deal with blocking sites used for copyright infringement, were introduced by the Lib Dems themselves to... Read more

20 September, 2011 by David Meyer

DWP lays out £1m on search engine marketing

...working with Cabinet Office to implement a standardised method for quantifying web site costs across the department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. The... Read more

7 September, 2010 by Kable

China renews Google's licence to operate

...changes to the way it redirects users to its Hong Kong web site, where web search can be unfiltered under China's "one country, two... Read more

12 July, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Microsoft to fix Windows, Internet Explorer, Office holes

...was disclosed in late April and which could lead to a cross-site scripting attack via the browser. Proof-of-concept exploit code has been... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Elinor Mills
Detecting and Preventing Security Threats on Servers and Browsers

Detecting and Preventing Security Threats on Servers and Browsers

...by malicious advertisers or intruders compromising the security of systems. Using cross site scripting techniques intruders can hijack web sessions and craft credible phishing sites... Read more

23 January, 2012
Outsourcing Malicious Infrastructure to the Cloud

Outsourcing Malicious Infrastructure to the Cloud

Malicious activities, such as running botnets, phishing sites or keyloggers, require an underlying infrastructure for carrying out vital operations like... Read more

1 June, 2011

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Moley

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apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

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pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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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...

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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...

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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.

1 day 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...

1 day 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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