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RSA Catches Financial Phishing Kit
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced Jan. 10 that it has identified a new phishing kit that was being sold and used online by hackers to target users’ personal information in real time. The phishing kit, known as a Universal Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Kit, is meant to help online hackers create attacks involving financial organizations…
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Motorola Unveils Two Linux-Based Phones
Motorola is bringing Linux-based phones with strong entertainment features to the consumer marketplace. Two new phones, introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, are the MOTORIZR Z6, a slide-to-open phone similar to the company’s existing Z3, and the MOTOMING A1200, a flip-open, touch-screen communications and entertainment device. Both are quad-band GSM phones, while…
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CompUSA Offers Free Vista Evaluation
CompUSA is offering consumers and small businesses a free evaluation to prepare them for the Jan. 30 launch of Microsoft’s Windows Vista. The free evaluation is available at all 229 CompUSA stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and is designed to answer computer readiness questions. “This is one of the most exciting software…
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ActiveGrid Appoints Chris Keene CEO
ActiveGrid, which provides an SOA platform built on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl software infrastructure stack, has appointed Christopher Keene as chairman and CEO. Founder and former CEO Peter Yared, who is also a former Sun Microsystems executive, will become chief technology officer and focus on the technology side of the business, especially its…
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Verbatim Takes USB Storage to 12GB
LAS VEGAS—Verbatim unleashed a plethora of new USB drives at CES here on Jan. 9, including a 12GB USB hard drive. The newest Store ‘n’ Go USB Drive is based on 1-inch hard drive technology and carries 12GB of hard drive storage on a unit the size of a business card. The drive weighs in…
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VeriSign Offers Hackers $8,000 Bounty on Vista, IE 7 Flaws
VeriSign’s iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. The Reston, Va., security intelligence outfit threw out the monetary reward to hackers as part of a challenge program aimed at luring researchers to its controversial pay-for-flaw VCP (Vulnerability Contributor Program). The launch of the…
