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11 sure signs you’ve been hacked – Part two

April 28, 2014April 28, 2014 enews

Serial: 2/6 – Sure sign of system compromise No. 2: Unwanted browser toolbars This is probably the second most common sign of exploitation: Your browser has multiple new toolbars with names that seem to indicate the toolbar is supposed to help you. Unless you recognize the toolbar as coming from a very well-known vendor, it’s time to dump the bogus toolbar. What to do: Most browsers allow you to review installed and active toolbars. Remove any you didn’t absolutely want to install. When in doubt, remove it. If the bogus…

How Heartbleed’s Worst-Case Scenario Was Proven Possible

April 28, 2014April 28, 2014 enews

If you’ve been tracking the ebb and flow of news related to the Heartbleed vulnerability, you may remember how what at first seemed like good news about the limited potential for a worst-case scenario attack quickly turned south when a challenge held by Web security company CloudFlare proved the flaw could indeed be exploited. Today the person who won the CloudFlare challenge, Rubin Xu, a security researcher and PhD candidate at Cambridge University in the UK, revealed how he did it. (The post wasrepublished on Ars Technica, which is where I first read…

Versatility and value in one

April 28, 2014April 28, 2014 enews

Introducing the new Toshiba Satellite C Series laptops Neuss, Germany, 28th of April – Toshiba Europe GmbH announces its latest C Series laptops (in Serbia) – the slim and affordable 39.6 cm (15.6”) Satellite C50/C50D and the versatile 43.9 cm (17.3”) Satellite C70/C70D. These value-packed models provide reliable computing making them perfect for use on the move or as desktop replacements. Perfect for a range of users from students to home office workers, the Satellite C Series offer plenty of choice for all everyday computing requirements. With powerful processors, enhanced…

Smiling for the camera

April 27, 2014 enews

Digitalization of floor space in shopping centers and retail shops is progressing in leaps and bounds. Fascinating examples show what is possible today: nevertheless some retailers allow themselves to be lured into taking risky experiments because they are so enthralled with this technology. Times are tough for fashion retailers in pedestrian zones. Every third customer has fun trying on skirts, dresses and coats inside the store, then takes note of the product number and enters it into her smartphone only moments after leaving the shop to order these items online.…

HP Introduces Next-generation Enterprise Array for Mission-critical Workloads

April 27, 2014April 27, 2014 enews

HP XP7 Storage provides ultra-high performance and always-on disaster recovery for lower risk, greater data protection HP today unveiled an enterprise-class storage disk array that provides customers with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for traditional storage workloads in mission-critical environments. Large enterprises rely on mission-critical applications to drive their businesses, which means that applications and data must remain available at all times, without exception. To ensure business continuity, enterprises require storage solutions that are designed to maintain high levels of data availability and continuous disaster recovery protection. To drive…

11 sure signs you’ve been hacked

April 27, 2014April 27, 2014 enews

Serial: 1/6 – In today’s threatscape, antivirus software provides little piece of mind. In fact, antimalware scanners on the whole are horrifically inaccurate, especially with exploits less than 24 hours old. After all, malicious hackers and malware can change their tactics at will. Swap a few bytes around, and a previously recognized malware program becomes unrecognizable. To combat this, many antimalware programs monitor program behaviors, often called heuristics, to catch previously unrecognized malware. Other programs use virtualized environments, system monitoring, network traffic detection, and all of the above at once in order…

How marketers lost faith in Facebook

April 27, 2014April 27, 2014 enews

Businesses that advertise on Facebook show signs of growing frustration In space, they say, no one can hear you scream. Some marketers feel the same way about Facebook. The social network has come to play a vital role for many of the million-plus businesses that promote their brands and connect with customers on its site. But it’s clear that some marketers no longer see Facebook as their friend. A recent post on the site by Eat24, a food delivery service, was the latest sign of marketers’ discontent. The problem, Eat24 and…

Heartbleed bug: Everything you need to know

April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 enews

As the Heartbleed bug continues to wreak havoc across the internet, here’s our roundup of everything you need to know about it Since news of Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability broke at the start of April, web sites across the globe have taken steps to shore up their defences against it. Meanwhile, web users have found themselves on the receiving end of conflicting advice about whether they should take action and change their passwords or do nothing and wait for the internet service provider community to sort things out. In some cases,…

More users, more attacks: Kaspersky Lab stats show a surge in Bitcoin cybercrime

April 24, 2014April 27, 2014 enews

According to the ‘Financial cyber threats in 2013’ study carried out by Kaspersky Lab, financial malware targeting Bitcoin became extremely popular in 2013. The number of attacks targeting the crypto-currency increased more than 2.5 times and accounted for 8.3 million incidents. Bitcoin was created especially for making anonymous e-payments and has become extremely popular over the last few years. In early 2013, the Bitcoin exchange rate was $13.6. By December it reached a record peak, exceeding $1,200. During the year several slumps occurred, but since April 2013 the price of…

Cisco Launches Managed Threat Defense Service

April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 enews

Solution Helps Defends Against Known Intrusions, Protect from Unknown Attacks and Guard Against Advanced Persistent Threats In today’s world of cloud, mobile, social and the Internet of Everything, customers face new security challenges as they work to protect their most important asset – data. Cisco today announced Managed Threat Defense, a managed security solution that applies real-time, predictive analytics to detect attacks and protect against advanced malware across customers’ extended networks. According to the Cisco® Annual Security Report, in a sample of 30 of the world’s largest multinational company networks all…