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Google reckons that up to 500,000 internet users, whose computers were impacted by the DNS Changer malware, will see the following message in the next week alone:

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Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

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In the mid-1990s, the emergence of Word macro viruses - capable of infecting both Windows PCs and Apple Macs via Word documents - it was common practice to recommend users avoid sharing .DOC files and use Rich Text Format (.RTF) files instead.

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It's unclear who's responsible for posting passwords for Twitter accounts to a public Web site. The exact number of accounts is also unclear, as Twitter says many are duplicates and many had already been suspended.

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Microsoft just released seven security updates to fix 23 vulnerabilities in Windows and other products. In February, Apple released a massive update that covered 51 vulnerabilities and also introduced an embarrassing security flaw. The contrast is striking.

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We told you about Apple’s iOS update today and that it fixed some playback issues for AirPlay, but the big news here is that the company has fixed a pretty serious vulnerability that we told you about in March.

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Microsoft says it has fixed a serious vulnerability in Hotmail, that was allowing hackers to reset account passwords, locking out the account's real owner and giving attackers access to users' inboxes.

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The bulk of the changes this time are under the hood. MSE’s “Automatic Remediation” now does a better job of quarantining threats on its own, for instance, no user intervention required. And Microsoft claims scanning performance and malware detection rates have both improved on the previous build.

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As your data heads to the cloud in Web 2.0 and beyond, deep privacy for your data is needed more than ever. We provide industry-strength encryption services so you can comfortably store your data anywhere.

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Your files never leave your possession without being encrypted first. SecretSync uses client-side encryption to give you absolute privacy and control over your data.

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Your email is the skeleton key to your online identity. When you lose control of your email to a hacker – not if, but when you lose control of your email to a hacker – the situation is dire. Email is a one stop shop for online identity theft. You should start thinking of security for your email as roughly equivalent to the sort of security you'd want on your bank account. It's exceedingly close to that in practice.

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Recent studies show that privacy concerns are very much on the minds of Facebook users. Part of being a responsible member of any  online community is educating yourself and your loved ones on how to properly configure the privacy and security settings offered by the platform. The fact that Facebook has 800 million members, and some are out to hack, scam and victimize others makes the issue even more pressing.

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Security is the responsibility of all of us: technologists, coders, mobile phone users, writers, video watchers, bloggers, Wikipedia readers, bank clerks, bicycle couriers, politicians, policemen and gardeners.

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More malware for the Mac OS X platform has been discovered, hot on the heels of the revelation that some 600,000 Macs had been infected in the Flashback attack.

And just like Flashback, the new Trojan doesn't require any user interaction to infect your Apple Mac.

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Apple has pushed two critical security updates to Java for Mac OS X this week in order to patch up some critical security loopholes found in the previous release of Java, version 1.6.0_29. The updates, which were released on Tuesday and Thursday of this week, are available via Software Update for Snow Leopard users running OS X 10.6.8 and Lion users running OS 10.7.3.

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Advertisers and other third parties track, 
clutter, and slow down your web browsing.
Disconnect makes the web your business not theirs.

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BoxCryptor encrypts your files using the AES-256 standard. This makes your data secure - no matter which cloud storage provider you use.

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RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform.
It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels

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“The problems with BYOD is that devices aren’t issued by the company. It may be difficult for employees to agree to put on remote management software or antivirus software. But there has to be some kind of tradeoff,” Bedwell says. “Organizations really have to get ahead of the curve. BYOD is here to stay.”

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Google and its ilk may still use your data for market research and product development. And law enforcement, of course, will still be able to demand data from online companies about your suspicious cat breading activities. But if you just keep telling yourself, "Now, I have privacy," then everything will be okay.

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