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LegalJust like the German government did last week, the French government via the National Information Systems Security Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) has also issued an alert, recommending users to switch to another web browser regarding an Internet Explorer’s vulnerability that was exploited to hack Google servers in China.
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French government also warns Internet Explorer users – Mozilla Links
IE: Update for critical vulnerability announced – Browsers – derStandard.at> Web
Microsoft will offer an “out-of-cycle” security update – but it first had to be well balanced “Regrettably, we must note that one of our products has been used for criminal activities.
Therefore we cooperate with Google, other partners in the software industry and international agencies to educate the facts, ” said Microsoft in a press release [...]
German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer
674ShareemailshareIn a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology known as BSI recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google.If you [...]
StopBadware.org – ISPs and the fight against bots
For the last several months, some of the folks at Comcast have been working on a draft IETF document to inform ISPs about the role they can play in remediating bots on their customers’ computers. This is a tricky challenge: on one hand, ISPs are in a great position to detect bot activity, notify their [...]
Quick and easy file encryption
There are all kinds of ways to secure things. Stuff it in the back of a closet. Stick it under a mattress. Bury it in the back yard in a coffee can. These techniques might best be called “security by obscurity”. After all, if nobody can find your stuff, then they can’t mess with it.
Of [...]
Google reveals a part of their stored user information – Internet – krone.at
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Yadis! Backup
It’s an easy-to-use backup-tool, which will save you a lot of troubles. It guards your personal data by making real-time copies whenever you make changes to your documents to almost any destination you choose.
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TU Berlin – Sicherheit im Internet – Update-Liste
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AVG 9 Antivirus Improves Performance, Adds Identity Theft Tool – antivirus – Lifehacker
Windows only: One of our readers’ favorite antivirus applications, AVG, has updated, claiming faster scan times (up to 50%), boot times (10-15%), and less memory usage. On top of that, it’s added a new feature to assist with identity theft.
The identity theft feature, as reported by CNET, is only available in the U.S., and pairs [...]
Mozilla Plugin Check page to help safer web experience – Mozilla Links
To provide users a safer web experience, Mozilla is now going after plugins, which due to the lack of an effective update mechanism, are usually a few versions behind in most user’s computers, leaving them unnecessarily exposed to already patched security flaws.
With the latest Firefox 3.5.3 update, Mozilla introduced a simple check to its first [...]
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