A security researcher at Google is recommending computer users make several configuration changes to protect themselves against a previously unknown vulnerability that allows untrusted users to take complete control of systems running most versions of Microsoft Windows.

After Microsoft confirmed that a hole in its Internet Explorer browser was used in the December cyber attacks on Google and at least 33 other outfits, a trio of security-conscious nations - Germany, France, and Australia - went so far as to warn their citizens against the use of IE. And that led to a very good week for the likes of Opera and Mozilla.

Microsoft said it planned to release the first emergency out-of-band patch of the New Year, repairing a critical exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer, found as the source of malicious attacks against Google earlier this month.

Privacy and security news for Facebook just keeps getting worse. No doubt, thanks in part to its ubiquity, Facebook is quickly becoming the Microsoft of social networking. The latest research shows that not only has certain user information been made available by the site without warning, but additional information can also be harvested with the use of simple clickjacking schemes.

China Tuesday said reports of attacks by Chinese hackers on Indian government computers were “without basis”, a media report said.

The recent cracks of the A5/1 and A5/3 encryption systems seen on GSM and 3G cellular networks has resulted in an unexpected surge in sales of encrypted mobile broadband data software.

Microsoft is all over the news this week, but unfortunately for the company, it's for the wrong reasons. Early this week it was revealed that a security flaw in Internet Explorer caused opened the way for cyber attacks on Google users and some corporate networks. Now officials in France and Germany are advising its citizens it is best to avoid using IE until at least until Microsoft patches the IE vulnerability.

Virgin Media is trialling a scheme that will identify whether its broadband customers are illegally downloading.

Многие из вас, дорогие читатели, пишут в свои собственные или коллективные блоги. Да и вообще – создают различный контент. Хорошие тексты необходимо визуализировать – подкреплять скриншотами и фотографиями. А найти качественную утилиту для снятия скриншотов – не вполне простая задача

Thousands of years ago nobody could even dream of such a thing as GPS. Sailors and travelers coped well with navigation using a compass, maps, the sun and the stars. It’s the digital era now but nevertheless, there are many ways to determine the location without using global positioning systems.

Security researchers continued on Monday to refine the basic Internet Explorer exploit used by China-based attackers to compromise systems at Google and up to 33 other companies.

Security experts are urging service providers to be more proactive in tracking infected machines and taking them off their networks, after new statistics showed that many computers remain infected for months on end.

Only 10 per cent of the entire IPv4 address range is still available and businesses need to start preparing for the switch to IPv6 within the next two years, according to the Number Resource Organisation (NRO).

Booby-trapped PDF files, posing as messages from the US Department of Defense, were emailed to US defence contractors last week. The document refers to a real conference due to be held in Las Vegas in March.

Anti-Semitic hackers shut down the London Jewish Chronicle website for 18 hours until Monday morning and posted an Arab flag, hate slogans and messages from the Koran. The computer vandals called themselves “Palestinian Mujaheeds.”

Security measures such as the use of one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication -- considered among the most robust forms of IT defenses -- are no longer enough to protect online banking systems against fraud, a Gartner Inc. report warns.

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