Friday, 29 June 2012

Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity

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June 29, 2012
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Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity In the wake of the Flashback malware infestation, Apple has removed a statement from its website that claims its Mac OS X isn't susceptible to viruses.
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Google Nexus 7 Could Heavily Impact Tablet Wars Android still has a long way to go to best Apple's iPad. But the arrival of the Nexus 7--with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as its operating system--may shake up the tablet market.
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T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Resigns Philipp Humm has resigned as CEO of T-Mobile US, the fourth-largest U.S. mobile operator, and will be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Jim Alling.
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New Asus PC Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded This 11.6-inch netbook PC is also among the first to feature the new Intel Atom Cedar Trail dual-core CPU.
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Internet Explorer 10: MIA from Windows 7 Microsoft is maintaining its year-long silence on a release timetable and features for its new browser on its current OS.
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Study: 86% of Top Websites Expose Visitors to Third-party Tracking Cookies How prevalent is the use of tracking cookies that get planted on your computer after browsing a website so it can keep track of what you're doing?
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US Judge Dismisses Apple Patents Lawsuit Against Motorola A U.S. federal judge Friday ruled that Apple cannot seek an injunction against Motorola Mobility in its smartphone patents lawsuit.
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RIM Delays BlackBerry 10, Lays Off 5,000 Amid Plummeting Sales It's a a triple-dose of bad news from Research in Motion.
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WhiteHat Finds Website Security Has Drastically Improved Falling rate shows website managers more focused on plugging holes.
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Web Attackers Borrow Domain Generation Tricks From Botnet-type Malware Hackers have started to adopt domain-generation techniques normally used by botnet-type malware in order to prolong the life of Web-based attacks.
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Legal Battle Over LinkedIn Breach Could Be Costly In addition to legal costs, the social networking site's brand could be hurt if the case is not settled quickly
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Does Two-factor Authentication Need to Be Fixed? Tough criticisms heard this week from researchers about the effectiveness of two-factor authentication, especially as it's used in its token form for one-time passwords and smartcards, suggest advances need to be made to restore its luster as security protection.
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Cybercriminals Build Massive Banking Fraud System in the Cloud Fraud was unique in the amount of automation used, made possible through the use of cloud computing, McAfee says.
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The Long Death of Fat Clients Web development and open standards have triumphed, while the JavaFX framework is merely a last gasp.
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Malware Infection Forces Printers to Print Garbled Data, Researchers Say Printers connected to Windows computers infected with new variants of a malware program called Trojan.Milicenso.
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Survey: China to Replace Silicon Valley as Tech Innovation Hub China is seen as the next global technology innovation center replacing Silicon Valley, according to results of KPMG Global Technology Innovation Survey released on Wednesday.
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Firefox for Android Gets a 'Screaming Fast' Upgrade Also included in Mozilla's new mobile browser are a fresh new look, a more personalized approach, and Flash support.
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Study: Government Incentives Have Almost No Impact on Creating Startups Just days after Ottawa asked for input on how to spend $400 million in new venture capital funding, a new study suggests government programs have almost no influence on entrepreneurs launching startups in Canada.
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Do Automatic OS X Security Updates Signal a Sea Change at Apple? Experts say the move is positive, but it's unclear if Apple has changed its often criticized stance on security.
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Cloud Adoption Pushes Storage Virtualization Storage hypervisors are increasingly being used to virtualize storage hardware to allow for disparate infrastructures to be centrally managed.
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