AVG and LimeWire Join Hands for Your Security
AVG Technologies is the company that specializes in providing antivirus and internet security protection to home and business users – the company is better known for its very popular free ...

The Most Costly Scam of the Year: Scareware, Says McAfee
Scareware (fake antivirus, or rogue applications) are programs that claim to be genuine, properly good security software solutions that will detect, remove and protect against malware. The catch is ...

Codename Lanikai: Thunderbird 3.1 Beta Released
After a lengthy development process, the Mozilla Messaging team released version 3.0 of its email client back in December, 2009. Since then the team has been working on making Thunderbird better and...

Browser News: Firefox 3.6 Upgrade, Rock Your Firefox, Safari 4.0.5, and Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android
There’s a lot to report from the browser world – and this time it is now about Microsoft and the choice screen (see here, here, and here). Let’s get things started with the Mozilla Foundation and its ...

The Solution to Brute Force Attacks, and Where Most Malicious Sites are Hosted
A brute force attack occurs when someone with malicious intent goes though all the possible keys until the right one is found. Say for example that an attacked knows your username and needs to ...

IE8: Safest Browser in the Internet Explorer Range
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the latest iteration of the Microsoft-developed web browser. It has more features than IE6 and IE7, it is faster than IE6 and IE7, and it is definitely safer to use than IE6 and ...

Twitter Starts Fighting Malicious Links Via New Service
Because Twitter users were hit by a phishing attack late last month, the team behind the popular micro-blogging service has decided to take measures and fight back. Phishing attacks are nothing to ...

As Apple Gives More Apps the Boot, EFF Presents the iPhone Developer Agreement
To the regular user, the iPhone is a wonderful platform on which the user can run quite a lot of useful, or not so useful, iPhone apps. To the iPhone app developer, it is definitely not all sunshine ...

Choice Screen Gets Randomization Tweak
The browser ballot screen, or the choice screen as Microsoft calls it, has been getting a lot of press lately – and for good reason. Some 200 million Windows users in Europe that have...

New Labs Feature for Gmail: Refresh POP Accounts
One of the great things about using Google’s email client, Gmail, is that you can keep track of several email accounts via Gmail. Emmanuel Pellereau, software engineer on the Google team, for example ...

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