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Facebook Invasion: Beware of New 'Smart' Worm
Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's walls. -
Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010
The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year. - T-Mobile Customers Suffer Data Breach
- PlayStation Helps Feds Catch Pedophiles
- The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009
- Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site
- Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: Five Ways to Protect Yourself
- Kaspersky Unveils Antivirus for Mac
- Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up
- Top 5 Social Engineering Exploit Techniques
Security How-Tos
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How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
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Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter Here's how to safeguard your identity and your personal data in the age of the social Web.
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Which Updates Should I Install? When Dick McGraw checks Windows Update, he wonders which patches he should download and install
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What is Antivirus 2010? Lonerlady asked the Answer Line forum about this very insistent program
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Turn an Old Floppy Into a Password Safe If you're handy with a glue stick, you can put an unused 3.5-inch disk to good use as a "fake rock."
Security News
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Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
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PlayStation Helps Feds Catch Pedophiles The federal government is using Sony's PS3 to crack passwords and investigate suspected child pornographers.
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Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site A New Jersey man was sentenced to a year in prison plus $37,500 fine for his role in a DDoS attack last year.
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Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up More than a million trojan-laden spam attacks are masquerading as a payment confirmation request.
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BlackBerry Security Exec Warns of Smartphone DDoS Attacks BlackBerry and smartphone security in general hasn't garnered much attention or concern over the past few years--at least from a consumer, or user, perspective. But that may change.
Security Playing in PCW Video
- Palm Pixi: An Inexpensive Entry-Level Smartphone The Pixi, the second smartphone to run Palm's Web OS, could be considered the Palm Pre lite.
- How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
- Digital Demolition: Hard Drive vs. Flame Thrower! The ioSafe external hard drive is designed to withstand home catastrophes such as floods and fires. But can it survive the 3000-degree fire cannon?
Full Windows 7 coverage
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Security Reviews
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Palm Pixi: An Inexpensive Entry-Level Smartphone The Pixi, the second smartphone to run Palm's Web OS, could be considered the Palm Pre lite.
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Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus Software Avira AntiVir Personal offers great, thorough protection and top-notch scan speed, but some nontechies might find its interface frustrating.
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Panda Cloud Antivirus (Beta) Free Software Panda Cloud Antivirus provides great protection in an easy-to-use application, but it's still too deep in development to recommend.
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Comodo Internet Security Free Antivirus Software Comodo Internet Security is not a good antivirus choice, owing to its lackluster malware detection and its tendency to produce false positives.
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PC Tools Threatfire 4.5 Free Antivirus Software PC Tools' free behavior-based antivirus utility serves as a great supplement to your existing security software.
Best Prices on Antivirus Software
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- 15 Minutes to a Secure Business Get the Secure in 15 toolkit starting with the "15 Minutes Month-at-a-Glance" calendar. McAfee will send you additional tools and tricks to stay protected around the clock.
- A Buyer's Guide to Data Protection Implementing data protection products and processes can be daunting. Make the right decisions by exploring what is available and what makes sense for your organization. Use this simple guide to evaluate different vendor offerings.
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