Archive for ‘August, 2005’

Update: Fake telecom invoices and Opodo install Trojans

Update: Fake telecom invoices and Opodo install Trojans

antivirus specialist H + BEDV warns Windows users about fake e-mails of Telekom and the online travel service Opodo, which spread at high speed over various spam lists. Once again it is fake bills, which lead one disguised as a PDF file trojan / backdoor in his luggage. The alleged in the telecom bill bill [...]

Red Hat GFS in Fedora Core 4 available

Red Hat GFS in Fedora Core 4 available

Linux specialist Red Hat at Linux World in San Francisco the availability of Global File System (GFS) in Fedora Core 4 if known. Through the provision of GFS for the open source community, Red Had enables the development of secure enterprise technologies and providing customers and partners a greater variety. According to Red Hat GFS [...]

Netscape eliminate vulnerabilities

Netscape eliminate vulnerabilities

After several failures in the past, AOL has now released an updated version of Netscape. It’s built on the Mozilla browser engine now includes all security patches that have been adjusted in Firefox 1.0.6. Version 8.0.3.3 is the fourth update since the launch of version 8 in May of this year. Analogous to the current [...]

Microsoft receives seven million dollars from ex-spammer

Microsoft receives seven million dollars from ex-spammer

Microsoft and the self-proclaimed “Spam King” Scott Richard have made a comparison. Richter and his company Optinrealbig.com there are seven million dollars, which is about € 5.674 million to pay for the software giant. Microsoft had sued Richter in December 2003. At that time, was a judge in the ranking of the anti-spam organization Spam [...]

Dell launches gaming PC with two graphics cards

Dell launches gaming PC with two graphics cards

Dell’s new XPS 600 PC is available with two graphics cards. However, in the online store can also be configured versions with only one PCI Express board. The cards of the Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX SLI are linked via a bridge (Scalable Link Interface) and the load sharing in challenging calculations. The mainboard of the [...]

Web.de switches together with other VoIP network providers

Web.de switches together with other VoIP network providers

Web.de switches along its VoIP network with other providers. As the company announced on Tuesday morning, peering agreements with strategic voipGATE, outbox and Lambdanet have been completed. Have long been calls from freephone customer with the users of Freenet, Sipgate and Nikotel are free. Shortly before the announcement of the takeover by United Internet, the [...]

Anti-spam solution based on network

Anti-spam solution based on network

security specialist Trend Micro has launched new services will complement existing anti-spam solutions. The so-called Trend Micro Network Reputation Services (NRS) to prevent 40 to 80 percent of all connections from known IP addresses of suspicious and prevent them penetrate sent e-mails to networks. The solution consists of two components: the service “RBL” is used [...]

Tagesschau is available as a podcast

Tagesschau is available as a podcast

The Tagesschau is now available as podcasts. To the 20-Clock output of the newscast there a few minutes after the broadcast as an MP3 download. This NDR announced today. The channel sees the new service as a supplement to the previously available Real and Windows Media video streams, Tagesschau.de be offered. “The evening news has [...]

Siemens launches software to increase network capacity

Siemens launches software to increase network capacity

The electronics giant Siemens has developed software that will allow increased efficiency of transport networks by up to 30 percent. The solution uses Synenergien possible in setting up the spare capacity and creates a security buffer against power outages, the company said. The operators of the networks could utilize their networks thus, at the same [...]

Keyloggers: How they ring discovered by data thieves

Keyloggers: How they ring discovered by data thieves

anti-spyware developers, the U.S. computer security firm Sunbelt Software have discovered a ring of identity thieves who used the keylogger software. The hacking tool is a software that is used to mitzuprotokollieren entries on the computer, thereby making them monitored and reconstructed. The software is used by hackers or crackers to access confidential data such [...]

An increasing number of female computer professionals

An increasing number of female computer professionals

Female IT users get the knowledge of the PC to know more and be in computer problems, compared to their male colleagues to help better and better. They are also more willing to advice and assistance of specialists to take advantage. This emerges from a survey of the German Fire Service Specialists PC. According to [...]

Baidu.com IPO wins at 353 percent

Baidu.com IPO wins at 353 percent

It almost seems such a way as would break down on the Nasdaq back the good old days of dot-com: The IPO of China’s Baidu.com search specialists has made on Friday with investors and analysts for joy to amazement. The company’s stock from the Far East has quadrupled in the IPO day over. Who came [...]

Microsoft: No performance impact on Vista

Microsoft: No performance impact on Vista

with Vista, which is aimed for next year announced new client operating system, Microsoft have focused on a well-known Windows problem: PCs are getting slower over time. To remedy this situation, Microsoft has implemented some new features. Sun Vista automatically defragments hard drives, and memory is better used to be able to start and run [...]

Growth is weakening in digicams

Growth is weakening in digicams

Sales of digital cameras in the U.S. slowed in the first half last year, but moves at a high level. According to calculations by the market researchers at IDC have been sold in the past six months on the U.S. market, 9.7 million digital cameras. This represents an increase of 20 percent over the same [...]

X86 Apple Mac fans not thrilled about the TPM chip

X86 Apple Mac fans not thrilled about the TPM chip

When Apple gave early June to switch to the x86 platform, announced the company representatives made it clear that Mac OS will continue to run only on our own computers. Meanwhile becoming apparent that this is with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is to be achieved, which contains a key that is needed for the [...]