Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
It’s time to drop my ICQ Account due to “Russian Company Buys ICQ”
May 1st, 2010 | 
Author: Russian Company Buys ICQ: “An anonymous reader writes ‘AOL has sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia’s largest Internet company, for US$187.5 million. DST’s offer was apparently more attractive than those of Russia’s ProfMedia and China’s Tencent. ICQ, originally released in 1996 and bought by AOL in 1998 for US$407 million, was one of the world’s first major instant messaging systems. Although largely forgotten in English-speaking countries, it remains widely popular in Central Europe, Russia, and Israel. Moscow News has additional coverage of the deal.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer
German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer:
In a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (known as BSI) recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser.
Michael Jackson Email Distributes Malware
Please always be careful with email espeacially with Attachments. Remember HTML Email calls files and scripts from the web not the mail server..
the Sans Institued, Storm Center has issued a Warning about this very issue please give it a read.
