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Facebook Video Scam Puts Malware on Mac and Windows

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Facebook Video Scam Puts Malware on Mac and Windows Facebook seems unable to stop scammers from circulating malicious Web links that install fake antivirus software on victims' computers.
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More than E-mail at Stake in Google Gmail Attack The focus of the debate about recent attacks from China against Google is on Gmail, but a hacked Gmail account unlocks way more than just e-mail for the attacker.
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Despite Oracle's Antics, LibreOffice Gets a Big Update This second major release of the popular and free productivity software suite adds numerous enhancements to performance and usability.
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FAQ: What's the Future of OpenOffice.org? Oracle suddenly announced Wednesday it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation.
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8 Security Considerations for IPv6 Deployment Now that we're out of IPv4 allocations, it's time to get serious about adopting the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6.
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iCloud to Cost $25 Yearly (Eventually) Apple will offer the multimedia storage service free initially.
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Google Offers Debuts with High Hopes as a Groupon Rival Google Offers gets Portlanders buzzed for cheap coffee, and hopefully enough of an appetite for another daily deals site. Meanwhile, Groupon files to go public.
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IT Workers Need Green Skills, Says BCS IT professionals need new skills to deliver green IT solutions, says an industry training group.
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How to Get Outsourcers to Focus on Business Value When it comes to cutting costs, outsourcing is delivering the goods--but bottom line benefits only go so far.
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Hotmail and Yahoo Users Also Victims of Targeted Attacks Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security...
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Day 2: Wow. That Was Really Easy The first step in my 30 Days With...Ubuntu Linux journey is to get the OS installed, and the first step of installing it is to figure out which installation option to go with.
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LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures.com; 1 Million Accounts Exposed You read that correctly: Another Sony-branded site got broken into, and the hackers claim to have access to 1 million user accounts.
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Sony Hacked Again: How Not to Do Network Security Sony has been targeted once again by a hacking collective and more customer data has been breached. I would be sympathetic, but Sony seems to lack even basic network and data security protection.
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Asus Eee PCs Ship With Ubuntu Linux Asustek is preinstalling Canonical's Ubuntu operating system for the first time in some netbooks to target the Linux market, Canonical said Thursday.
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Windows 8 Will Be a Tough Sell for Businesses Windows 8 looks slick and impressive, but it is such a dramatic shift from the Windows we're used to that businesses may be reluctant to get on board.
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EBay's PayPal to Stop Service on Alibaba Site EBay's PayPal will no longer be a payment option on a site run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, a sign that cooperation between the two companies may...
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Battle Over EU Flight Passenger Data Rages on Digital rights organizations have hit out at new agreements to transfer information about flight passengers in Europe to the United States and Australia.
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HTC to Release Sense SDK HTC plans to release an SDK for Sense, the user interface it features on Android phones.
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Lawmakers Question Sony, Epsilon on Data Breaches U.S. lawmakers question Sony and Epsilon about recent data breaches.
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Clearwire Outsources Support to TeleTech Clearwire is outsourcing day-to-day customer care to TeleTech Holdings, shifting about 700 employees to the company, in its latest move to cut costs.
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