Computer virus may target Indian firms in Dubai?
April 2nd, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, April 2 (IANS) A computer virus from China has been targeting users in India as well as in China, and as many Indian companies are based in Dubai in ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Egypt Shuts Down Internet Amidst Rising Political Unrest And Protests
January 28th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Jan 28, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The political unrest and protest in Egypt is growing by day and the government is in no mood to relent. That explains why the government of ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Users at risk of IE bug, warns Microsoft
December 24th, 2010 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 24 (ANI): Microsoft has issued a warning about an Internet Explorer bug that might hack into and take control of unprotected computers.Although Microsoft has already released a workaround solution for ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Attack on Gawker enables spammers to take over Twitter accounts
December 14th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 14 (ANI): An attack by hackers on online gossip site Gawker Media has enabled spammers to take over thousands of Twitter accounts after the users' passwords were stolen.Gawker revealed ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
20pc of Facebook users exposed to malware
November 25th, 2010 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 25 (ANI): Are you a Facebook user? Then there is a good chance that you have been exposed to malware at least once as you trolled through your friends' ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Half of second-hand phones contain personal data
October 13th, 2010 - 5:30 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Oct 13 (ANI): A new research has revealed that consumers inadvertently pass on their personal data like intimate photos and credit card numbers and pins to strangers when they discard mobile ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How hackers can ’snoop on private web sessions too’
July 26th, 2010 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 26 (ANI): Experts have identified how their web browser's 'private mode' setting is also vulnerable to hackers.Most web browsers offer a private mode, intended to leave no trace of surfing ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Iranian Cyber Army ‘hacks’ Twitter
December 19th, 2009 - 1:39 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 19 (ANI): Popular social networking site Twitter has been attacked by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army that directs web users to a page containing anti-America messages.The ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Britain’s teens say they would commit cyber crimes for money
April 3rd, 2009 - 3:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 3 (ANI): A new study has warned that Britain is breeding a generation of computer hackers with one in three teenagers admitting that they would commit cyber crimes for money.According ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Facebook Worm Grows with the Site
March 4th, 2009 - 9:37 pm ICT by GD
Facebook has 175 million users and worms. It is small surprise that a popular social networking site like Facebook will be targeted with worms, viruses and trojans. A number of new ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Cyber criminals target Facebookers
March 3rd, 2009 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 3 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has been hit by hackers looking to paw upon users valuable information.According to security experts, the site has faced five different security threats ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Microsoft says Internet Explorer users at risk of hacking
December 17th, 2008 - 11:40 am ICT by ANI
London, December 17 (ANI): World''s most popular web browser Internet Explorer has some security flaw due to which people using it may have their computers hijacked, says its developer Microsoft Corporation. ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Next-gen antivirus system to offer better protection to computers
August 8th, 2008 - 11:04 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 8 (IANS) A new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection, developed by the University of Michigan, is likely to replace ageing antivirus software on personal computers. Cloud computing ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Now, network cloud for next-generation antivirus system
August 7th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): That constant cribbing about the antivirus software in your computer may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Cyber crime rising alarmingly in Middle East
July 17th, 2008 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, July 17 (IANS) Internet users in the Middle East are under increasing threat from cyber crimes, prompting large spending on web security, WAM reported Thursday quoting experts. Web threats peaked in ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Facebook and MySpace are the new bane of bosses lives!
June 4th, 2008 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 4 (ANI): Fag breaks are passe now, the latest banes giving bosses headaches are social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, says a new poll.Four in ten managers say ... Read more...
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