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  • Conficker Tools Available, Countdown Hype in Overdrive

    When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Conficker.C—the worm on everyone’s mind for the last week—will phone home for new instructions, kick into overdrive, steal every piece of data it can find and—if you believe the hype—destroy the Internet as we know it. Well, at least that’s what the hype machine would have you believe. Security…

  • Stopping Conficker: The Tools You`ll Need

    Thanks to the exaggerated dangers posed by the Conficker worm, many are wondering if they are safe from the predictions of gloom and doom expected to hit internet connected PCs on April 1. Luckily, it takes very little to be prepared for and stop Conficker from impacting your PC and ending the world as we…

  • FBI Report: Internet Fraud on the Rise in Recession

    Small businesses may need the services of a trusted adviser such as their IT solution provider in the midst of the current recession more than they ever have before, given the recession-spurred rise in Internet fraud recently reported by the FBI. Or at least they should be careful about what businesses they choose to buy…

  • Conficker: Don`t Be Made a Fool April 1

    In just three short days the world will learn how dangerous the latest variant of the Conficker worm is. Some reports say that more than 10 million PCs are already infected and the activation of the worm will cause massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The concern is so great that the alarms have…

  • ‘GhostNet’ Spies on Dali Lama, Governments

    The Dali Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, is among the many victims of a vast, global computer spy network uncovered by Canadian researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies in Toronto. The New York Times broke the story over the weekend, detailing the findings of the report by the Canadian researchers who found that…