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» Spy Cobra Deluxe

The article will educate a user about Spy Cobra Deluxe.  The Supplied Flash Drive contains a completely undetectable monitoring program offering an array of features. It logs key strokes (every key that his struck on the keyboard), takes screen snapshots, remembers all websites visited and detects encrypted password keys. On top of this the software [...]

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» Microsoft Releases ‘Faster’ Windows

The brand new Windows 7 operating system (OS) is set to deliver “better battery life and quicker boot times,” according to Microsoft and Intel.
The statement was made during a press conference in San Fransisco, where engineers gave the new OS a stringent test.
Microsoft will be expecting Windows 7 to avoid the negative exposure generated through [...]

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» Why Microsoft Needs Windows 7 to Succeed

Thursday, 22 October sees the highly anticipated arrival of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, with many believing that the future of the world’s largest software company will depend on its success.
The enormous scale of Microsoft’s grip on the market becomes clear when told of the 90% of computers relying on its Windows operating system, and [...]

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» Sidekick Loss Hits T-Mobile Phone Sales

T-Mobile has had to withdraw the Sidekick in America, after being made aware that customers could lose personal data through its server.
The designer of Sidekick’s software, Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft), confirmed the fault, with the mobile phone industry condemning the issue as one of the biggest failings in recent years.
Microsoft are also coming out [...]

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» Paris Hilton’s website suffers with Trojan troubles

It seems as though Paris Hilton has been attacked – not in the streets, not in her home, not in her car, but through her website.  Paris Hilton’s website has been infected with a virus which prompted users of the site to install a mysterious ‘update’.  Whether the user then decided to install the update [...]

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» Data Theft: Just another day at the Office for one Exec

An IT executive from a Canadian marketing business stands accused of stealing a computer backup tape that holds the personal details of 3.2 million customers, which if sold on the lucrative black market could make as much as $10 million.

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» Government Officials continue push for IMP: Big Brother Watches on

A band of home office officials are still pushing for the big brother style central database of emails, web browsing, phone data  and location tracking, even though the government said that they won’t consider reviewing the scheme until at least 2010 – and possibly not at all.
A spokeswoman for the Home Office has confirmed that [...]

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» New report predicts massive increase in malware and phishing in 2009

Reports from security provider MessageLabs suggest that virus writers are highly likely to release increasingly sophisticated strains of malware over the course of next year in an effort to get back in to the game after some high-profile botnet shutdown operations in 2008.

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» Upset IT Manager Causes Server Chaos for Media Company

An IT manager from California was sent to prison for 356 days for the crime of hacking in to his ex-employers computer system, and releasing the company’s mail server to the public.

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» Highly Advanced Trojan Steals 500,000 Financial Accounts

A cyber-gang has stolen the details of over 500,000 financial accounts over the course of the past three years using a highly advance Trojan that remains undetectable to the majority of its victims.

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