0 Votes Vote

Confusion over Skype security threat clears up in Internet    by techguru on 20 Dec 2006, 20:54 Confusion over a security threat hitting the popular VoIP service Skype was resolved Tuesday, with researchers re-characterizing the threat as a Trojan horse rather than a worm.Earlier this week, security... Total Hits: 344      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Microsoft shares draft of Vista security hooks in Software    by techguru on 20 Dec 2006, 20:53 Microsoft has released a first draft of programming interfaces meant to help security firms create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista.The new application programming interfaces... Total Hits: 481      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Hacker attack at UCLA affects 800,000 people in Internet    by techguru on 20 Dec 2006, 20:50 The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke... Total Hits: 366      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

MySpace tops Yahoo for first time in Internet    by techguru on 20 Dec 2006, 20:49 The online hangout MySpace got even more popular in November, beating Yahoo in Web traffic for the first time, a research company said Tuesday.News Corp.'s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views... Total Hits: 403      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Google's Customized IE 7 Browser in Internet    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:58 Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service tells us that Google has released a customized version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search... Total Hits: 471      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Yahoo's IM update: A Trojan horse of surprises in Internet    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:49 Yahoo said late Friday that it has fixed a bug in its newest version of Yahoo Messenger that changed a user's mail preferences without his or her consent.But the company has stopped prompting customers... Total Hits: 468      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Microsoft speeds up phishing shield for IE 7 in Software    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:47 Microsoft has quietly released an update for Internet Explorer that fixes a problem with the browser's phishing shield.The feature that protects against fraudulent Web sites, new in IE 7, in some cases... Total Hits: 477      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Amazon hits back at IBM over patents in Internet    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:44 A patent feud between IBM and Amazon.com took a new twist this week as the e-commerce giant countersued Big Blue for infringement and blasted its earlier accusations as "meritless and misleading."In... Total Hits: 462      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Blogging Headed for the Slow Lane, Suggests Report in Internet    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:38 The blogging phenomenon may have peaked, suggests a report by Gartner researchers, who note a slowdown in growth of the total number of blogs on the Internet. However, the elimination of many spam blogs... Total Hits: 453      0 Comments Add Comment

---

0 Votes Vote

Microsoft, Novell and Echoes of SCO in Tech Notes    by techguru on 17 Dec 2006, 20:36 Microsoft is giving away 70,000 coupons for SLES to customers who want to run Windows and Linux together. These are "stay out of court free" cards that hope to derail customers' existing relationships... Total Hits: 466      0 Comments Add Comment

---