The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that
disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain. BOiNK will be a little different from OiNK.
For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided. The success of BOiNK will
mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be asked to upload their old OiNK torrents.
neowin.net -
27.10.2007Latest biometric technology scans veins
CNET is reporting that Sony has developed a new biometric scanning technology, called 'Mofiria', that scans the veins in your finger in order
to provide access to your laptop or PC. The scanner uses a CMOS sensor to capture scattered light within the finger veins, and compresses the date to
allow it to be stored on laptops, or even cellphones. There are many benefits to this new method, claims Sony. Firstly, this technology claims a
high accuracy rate, with less than 0.1% false identification. Secondly, it takes a lot less time to scan the finger; it takes 0.015 seconds to scan on
a computer CPU, and 0.25 seconds on a mobile phone CPU.
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03.02.2009Gmail Now Scans for Viruses
Google enhances security
features of its Web mail
service...
pcworld.com -
02.12.2005Google's newest use: finding vulnerabilities
"Hacktivist" group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) began offering a software tool that scans for security flaws in Web sites by exploiting
Google's omnipresence...
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26.02.2008Study reveals that most Americans have false sense of online security
More than half of computer users who think they are protected against online threats like spyware, viruses and hackers actually have inadequate or no
online protection, according to an independent research study conducted for Verizon. Verizon's study, conducted with 545 U.S. Internet subscribers by
the independent Internet research firm iTracks, contrasted participants' opinions about their level of online security against results of Verizon
Security Advisor scans performed on their computers.
While 92 percent of participants thought they were safe, the scans revealed
that 59 percent were actually vulnerable to a variety of online dangers. Ninety-four percent of those surveyed said they would find it helpful to be
able to diagnose or check their online security status on a regular basis to make sure their PCs were safe.
winbeta.org -
07.12.2007Panda Looks to Speed Antivirus Scans
Panda has released NanoScan,
an online virus scanning
service that is able to
perform a full sweep of a
computer in less than one
minute. The speed is a vast
improvement over current virus
scanners, which take as much
as an hour or more to
complete...
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16.03.2007Norton AntiVirus 11 for Leopard Announced
Symantec has introduced Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac, featuring support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software furnishes vulnerability protection
technology, which watches the web application layer. Norton AntiVirus automatically detects and removes viruses, scans and cleans downloaded files and
email attachments, and protects against software vulnerabilities.
To address the growth of multi-platform PC and Mac environments, Norton
AntiVirus 11 for Mac scans for both PC and Mac vulnerabilities, viruses and macro viruses.
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11.12.2007McAfee buys Web site security company for $51M
McAfee will acquire ScanAlert, a Web application security vendor, for $51 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
ScanAlert,
which was founded in 2001, runs a paid service that scans Web sites daily looking for security vulnerabilities and checks if e-commerce applications
have up-to-date patches.
McAfee said the business will be integrated into its Web Security Group, which develops McAfee's
SiteAdvisor service. SiteAdvisor scans Web sites and scores them according to their risk, taking into account for example whether malicious software
is hosted on the site. Consumers can download the SiteAdvisor toolbar that displays that ranking in a group of search results.
Sites using ScanAlert's service display a logo that says "Hacker Safe," which also appears on product listings on Web sites such as Yahoo's
shopping channel and Pricegrabber.com. The service is aimed at increasing consumer confidence with e-commerce transactions, which have seen a rising
level of fraud.
winbeta.org -
30.10.2007AOL Swaps Spyware Protection
Vendor
America Online has released
the second version of its
spyware protection software
for 20 million AOL members,
which is now built upon
PestPatrol from Computer
Associates. AOL Spyware
Protection 2.0 includes four
different scans for malware
which run in intervals ranging
from 60 seconds, 15 minutes,
daily and weekly...
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22.09.2005Microsoft Tool Blocks Typo
Domains
Microsoft Research has
released a new tool as part of
its Strider project, which
reveals third party domains
that are being contacted in
the background of a Web site.
Called Strider URL Tracer, the
Internet Explorer add-on also
scans and blocks URLs that try
to capitalize on misspellings,
known as typo domains...
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10.04.2006OneCare Deletes Users' Outlook Files
A rash of users of
Microsoft's new Windows Live
OneCare service, launched last
January 30, have been
reporting on Microsoft's
support forums that virus
scans performed by the service
have resulted in the deletion
of their OUTLOOK.PST files -
the local, centralized
repositories of e-mail,
scheduling, and collaboration
data used by Outlook...
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13.03.2007Windows Live Safety Center Now
Online
As one of the new Windows Live
services, Microsoft has
brought online a beta version
of its "Safety Center"
that does Web based scans of a
PC. The Safety Center utilizes
an Active X control to check
for and removes viruses, clean
up the "junk" on a
hard disk, and even schedule a
disk defragmentation if
needed...
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02.11.2005Digital Art Aids Health Checkups
Doctors are turning to graphic
artists to help patients
better understand their
illness and course of
treatment.
The artists
turn medical images from 3D
anatomical scans into less
formidable forms, suitable for
patients. Trials of the system
have shown it can aid
understanding and deepen
dialogue between patients and
their care givers. The system
is also being used as part of
a project to raise awareness
among diabetics of some of the
most serious side-effects of
their condition.
"Doctors talk shop, which
can be difficult for patients
to penetrate," said John
McGhee, a PhD student and 3D
computer artist from the
University of Dundee, who
helped to direct the
visualisation project. The
tools and methods used to pass
on information about illnesses
and cures were as various as
the doctors themselves,
Mr McGhee said.
"None are that great," he
said. But, by producing
simplified images from
detailed MRI scans, for
example, patients can get a
far better grasp of what is
happening inside them, how it
came about, and what is being
done about it, he
said.
neowin.net - 08.08.2007
Is Microsoft working on software center for Windows?
Questions arise as to why Windows Vista and Windows 7 have renamed the "Add and Remove Programs" to "Programs and Features", alongside "Windows
Updates". It is possible that Microsoft is planning to release a software center that will be able to find updates for all your programs that are
deemed safe by Microsoft, right inside Windows Update. This type of software already exists in programs like FileHippo.com's Update Checker that
scans installed programs on your machine, and compares the updated version on FileHippo.com.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 22.01.2009
Fake MPAA-Sponsored Video Site Goes Offline
A video download site that had
been exposed as a front for
the MPAA to catch those who
download copyrighted content,
as well as those who may have
already downloaded it, has
been taken offline.
The site, called
"MiiVi," contained whole
downloads of movies as well as
links to a program that would
apparently speed downloads
from the site. However,
there's a catch: the site is
owned by a anti-piracy company
and the software is actually a
Trojan horse of sorts.
A Whois search indicates
that the site is owned by
MediaDefender, a company that
specializes in anti-piracy
solutions. The application is
actually spyware and scans the
hard drive for copyrighted
content and then reports back
to MediaDefender...
winbeta.org - 06.07.2007
Apple finally releasing a MacBook mini?
9to5 Mac has recently posted scans of an article in a Russian magazine, depicting what appears to be a MacBook mini that is coming later this year.
There is an abundance of images of the supposed device, which you will find further down this article. In terms of specifications, the MacBook mini
will pull in the following: 10.4" WXGA display. • 1280 x 768 pixel with LED backlighting. • NVIDIA MCP79 • Intel Atom Z740 1.83GHz
with 1MB L2 cache. • 2GB DDR3-800. • NVIDIA GeForce 9400M • 64GB Solid State Drive.
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neowin.net - 31.03.2009
Windows Advisor Pilot v2.2
Windows Advisor is a self-help tool that notifies you about problems in your PC and helps you fix them. Windows Advisor scans your PC continuously,
notifies you about important issues, and, when possible, suggests an easy fix solution. Additionally, it provides a checkup function, so that you can
manually check your PC. This manual checkup displays information about additional, non-critical issues, such as suggestions and tips for improving the
way you use your PC. The checkup advises you about security, performance, networking, printing, and more.
winbeta.org - 08.07.2008
1 in 3 Windows PCs vulnerable to worm attack
The worm that has infected several million Windows PCs is causing havoc because nearly a third of all systems remain unpatched 80 days after Microsoft
rolled out an emergency fix, a security expert said Thursday.
Based on scans of several hundred thousand customer-owned Windows
PCs, Qualys concluded that about 30 percent of the machines have not yet been patched with the "out of cycle" fix Microsoft provided Oct. 23 as
security update MS08-067.
winbeta.org - 16.01.2009
Scientists build mind-reading computer
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have developed a 'mind-reading' computer.
It is hoped the mind-reading
machine, which can forecast the activity patterns a brain will create for a specific word, will offer a better understanding of how and where the
brain stores information and even lead to improved treatments for language disorders and learning disabilities.
Researchers used
nine volunteers to train the computer. They were given 58 words and asked to think about the meaning and properties of the words. Brain scans taken
when the users were thinking about the different words were then captured using magnetic resonance imaging, which identifies real-time brain activity.
winbeta.org - 03.06.2008
SETI@home needs You!
SETI@home, the distributed computing project, is calling for more
volunteers willing to donate their computers' downtime to the project which scans radio telescope data for evidence of intelligent alien life.
Volunteers download a small programme which acts something like a screensaver - it kicks into life when your computer is not doing
anything. The software then crunches small parts of data from radio telescopes looking for patterns which could suggest intelligent life. Although
each individual computer does not achieve very much, using hundreds of computers means a lot of data can be analysed. SETI stands for the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
winbeta.org - 04.01.2008
