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Users need to steer clear of HackMSN.exeA hacking tool advertised as being capable of enabling users to hack Windows Live accounts and grab Windows Live Messenger passwords is actually used by attackers to spread their malicious code. According to BitDefencer, HackMSN.exe will not only not permit users to recover Windows Live passwords, but will instead infect them will malware, namely the

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Despite previous claim to the contraryGoogle isn’t doing itself any favors with the latest admission that is has indeed collected personal data from wireless networks with its Street View cars, despite previously claiming that it didn’t. Google says the data was collected ‘by mistake,’ but that probably won’t matter much to the privacy advocates and official regulators who were already displeased

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His "innocuous hyperbole" didn't go well with authoritiesWith so many ways of doing things online that will come back to bite you, it’s a surprise that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen more often. A few months ago, one man from Doncaster, UK vented out his frustration over an airport closure on Twitter. With all flights grounded, he tweeted that he’d blow the airport "sky high" if something

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Employs advanced social engineeringSecurity researchers warn that a new worm is targeting instant messaging users. Spotted on Yahoo! Messenger (YM) and Skype, the attacks use sophisticated social engineering techniques to trick users into infecting themselves. It certainly looks like IM worms are making a comeback on the threat landscape, as this is the second malware of this kind to emerge in

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To make it easier to find related topicsGoogle is constantly trying to customize search results and make them more relevant to each individual user. It’s also adding more info to the search results page, besides the regular entries. One feature that has actually been around for many years, but that gets rarely used, is the ‘Similar’ websites link. This is probably part of the reason why

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Slams the operators that want to charge for itIn a recent post on the official Skype blog, Jean-Jacques Sahel, the company’s European director of government & regulatory affairs, has shown his support for mobile Internet neutrality, as a response to the fact that more and more companies want to charge users for browsing the net when using mobile devices. Apparently, this action can be seen

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The Communications Ministry has blocked the import of iPads to IsraelAn Israeli returning to his home land from a trip to the U.S. saw his iPad confiscated when he tried to declare his new iPad at customs. When he spoke to the ministry, he was told "It is forbidden to bring iPads into Israel; send it back overseas." He was told to apply to the Communications Ministry to have it returned. In

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Particularly dangerous when combined with alcohol3D may look like the future of television and film making to some, but, to others, it can be seen as the next type of hallucinogenic drug that can cause the full set for symptoms associated with epilepsy, high blood pressure and a host of other health conditions, with or without psychological substrate. Granted, cases of nausea, dizziness,

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SaskTel CEO spills the beans on new iPhone model from ApplePresident and CEO of Canada’s SaskTel, Robert Watson, has announced that the carrier is building its own 3G network now, adding that, when it’s up and running in July, “[Apple] is coming out with a new version of the iPhone […] and they’re going to put us on that.” SaskTel provides wireless services for the one million residents of

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Marc Maiffret A security expert that build his career on identifying vulnerabilities in Microsoft software now says that the company has come a long way. Marc Maiffret, a former hacker turned legitimate security researcher, and now chief security architect at FireEye, told InSecurity Complex that Apple’s software was inferior to Microsoft’s in terms of security and the capacity of protecting end

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More horsepower, more battery life, more built-to-order optionsToday, Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with faster processors, next-generation NVIDIA graphics and longer battery life. The systems are set to be showcased at this year’s NAB show, where Apple expects visitors to check out “their latest hardware and software products.” The new line of MacBook Pro computers is still considerably

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The competition is getting fiercer with Chrome also introducing improved sync featuresWith Google Chrome recently introducing a revamped sync feature which now makes it easy for users to share settings and even themes between different Chrome installs, Mozilla Weave for Firefox is finally getting some serious competition. But Mozilla developers aren’t sitting idly by, the Firefox add-on has just

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Designed for the USB 2.0 interfaceA few years ago, the mere idea of external hard disk drives didn't really incite many followers, mostly because there were very few interfaces capable of communicating with such a device and all of them were too slow for practical use. This all changed with the invention of the USB 1.1 interface and, later, with its reincarnation as the currently mainstream USB

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A massive update to the renowned design and development suiteAdobe has announced the launch of its Creative Suite 5, the latest release in the long line of products well known to graphic designers, web developers and anyone in the creative industries. It's a massive release, with all the 14 products in the suite being upgraded. Creative Suite 5 also adds Adobe Flash Catalyst to the lineup, a tool

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Google is customizing its existing apps and services for tabletsEverybody is getting the iPad craze and Google isn't immune. With the latest hyped gadget to come from Apple having been launched over the weekend, publishers, developers and everyone in between have been releasing iPad versions of their sites or apps. Google has taken a mixed approach to the iPad. Some apps have been adapted from

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Internal comparison with Apple's iPadThe Easter Holidays appear to have been a good period for a number of leaked reports to surface on the Internet, giving us a glimpse of some of the upcoming products that will be available this summer. One such device is the HP Slate that the Palo Alto, California-based PC vendor showcased early this year, at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada

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May incorporate the technology in YouTubeThere's no stopping Google's acquisition bonanza and the Mountain View giant has notched another company to its belt, online video platform Episodic. The startup had only launched its product a few months behind, but Google was impressed with what it saw and acquired the company with employees joining the Google team. The acquisition was announced by

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iPhone Dev Team is the first to break into iPhone OS 3.2Mere days into the iPad’s public debut, the device has been hacked. MuscleNerd, a member of the infamous iPhone Dev Team, has posted a video showing how the hacker was able to log into the iPad “jailbreak style,” as he puts it. The iPhone Dev Team is notorious for hacking the iPhone OS, the software that also powers Apple’s iPad. “Logging

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Google redirects Chinese users to uncensored siteAs it was widely expected, Google has updated its stance on China yesterday. Unsurprisingly, it was forced to leave China. It hasn't shut down Google.cn altogether, but it now redirects users to Google.com.hk, its Hong Kong search portal from where it can serve uncensored results. Reports from inside China say the Hong Kong site is already being

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The good days when you can do no wrong and no evilWill Microsoft slapping “7” on the rebranded Windows Mobile (now Windows Phone) OS be enough to counter Google’s Linux for mobile phones? It’s easy to expand the Microsoft vs. Google antithesis to Windows Phone and Android – proprietary vs. open source, paid vs. free, Windows vs. Linux, etc. Most would undoubtedly agree that Windows Phone and

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For the protection against socially engineered malwareInternet Explorer 8 continues to be the best in breed browser when it comes down to offering end users security compared to rivals that, without exception, are considered to be more secure than IE by default in the public’s perception. It’s not the first time that IE8’s superiority over browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Opera has been

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Partially similar, in design, to the multitouch Aspire 5738PGAcer has already revealed its Aspire 5738PG multitouch notebook but, of course, the company's laptop lineup definitely does not reduce itself to that single model. In addition to DirectX 11 graphics and multitouch capabilities, there is a third technology set to take off during 2010, namely 3D. While aiming to be among the first to

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If it doesn't end in .com don't trust itThe name of the popular file analysis service VirusTotal is being abused by cyber-crooks to infect users with scareware. A recent forum spam campaign tries to trick people into visiting a malicious website hosted at virus-total.in. Security researchers from Sophos reported a spam run promoting the rogue virus-total domain, as a private message on a forum.

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Twitter to borrow more than a few cues from Google in its upcoming ad roll-outTwitter has managed to create quite a bit of hype with its long awaited ad platform. There haven't been any actual details on how the company plans to implement ads on the site but, if you take Twitter's word on it, they will be "fascinating," "non-traditional" and "really cool.” But if the latest leaked details are to

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An underwhelming but great featureThere were two major trends on the web last year, the real-time web and location. Google's got one covered, its real-time search is still adding new sources, and now it’s time to tackle the other. The search engine has introduced a new location filter to its search option enabling you to search for results nearby geographically. "Location has become an

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