Archive for the ‘Internet News’ Category
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The latest bug within Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is just now being addressed but was something reported back in 2007.
Microsoft seems to be rushing to address a discovered bug within their Internet Explorer web browser that was discovered by security researchers back in 2007. Hackers are using this ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Twitter is the next best thing since sliced bread but it continues to be a prime target attacked by scams, phishing, spam and even spread malicious computer infections.
Once again, Twitter users are being tricked into providing their username and password details to a website that originally spammed the users ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
If their ware a vaccine for Conficker Worm and the newest variant, Conficker.C, which some call the April Fool’s Day Worm, would you use it?
A new threat of Conficker Worm has surfaced and many researchers are scrambling to not only prepare for it but remove it. Of course you ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Reports of a Facebook Worm have resurfaced and after getting many tips in it was found to be the Koobface Worm which is currently affecting Facebook and MySpace social networks.
Some time ago the Koobface worm was known to be a serious parasite that may result in your system being ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Gmail had a recent outage on February 24, 2009 where the service was unreachable for about two hours and was then attacked by phishers afterwards.
Reports have confirmed that right after the Gmail outage issue was resolved by Google Inc. a few days ago, users of the hosted e-mail service's ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
An antitrust suit was filed Tuesday against Google by a small website operator accusing them of unfairly manipulating its advertising system to harm a potential competitor.
A vertical search engine that provides a service for people looking for business products and services called SourceTool.com, is operated by TradeComent.com. As reported ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Mozilla tries to capitalize on additional web browser market share with a new Firefox 3.0.6 version that addresses security issues.
Some people say that Firefox is the ironclad of web browsers when it comes to security. Maybe they are right after this recent Firefox update that addresses many security and ...
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