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New ransomware locks PCs, demands premium SMS for removal

UPDATE: Another variant has been detected. Following the recently uncovered hybrid scareware with elements of ransomware, and last year's GPcode ransomware attacks, cybercriminals have once again demonstrated their interest in the concept of ransomware. PandaLabs is reporting on a newly discovered ransomware variant which...

Tags: PC, Malware, SMS, Cybercriminal, Attack, PandaLabs, Dr.Web, Ransomware, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Cellular Phones, Security, Viruses And Worms, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Dr.Web anti-virus definitions 2007-09-28 (Windows)

latest virus definitions for Dr.Web anti-virus, Dr.Web Anti-virus â€Â" CURES computers from viruses The quality of the program’s operation and not just its presence in the computer has always been the characteristic feature of Dr.Web Anti-virus. Not only the ability of the anti-virus to detect viruses, but also...

Tags: Antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Virus, Doctor Web, Dr.Web, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2007-09-28

Dr.Web Antivirus plus Antispam 4.33 (Windows)

Download a compact and fast anti-virus solution for PC. Dr.WEB is not just an Anti-virus product, It has the ability to go beyond other products on the market by being able to detect, cure and or delete malicious programs such as, but not limited too: Mass-mailing worms, E-mail viruses, File...

Tags: Anti-spam, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Virus, Doctor Web, Dr.WEB, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2006-11-16

Additional Resources

ShapeWriter: Must-try iPhone app

ShapeWriter Free is an amazing new iPhone application based on research that began in the late 1990’s at IBM. Its Almaden Research Center published the first rigorous mathematical optimization result of touch keyboard based on the Metropolis “random walk”  algorithm -- the same algorithm used by scientists to understand...

Tags: Algorithm, Apple iPhone, ShapeWriter Free, Engineering, Keyboards, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-26

How much do desktops matter?

How much do desktops matter?The desktop/laptop will be around longer than that.Laptops continue to grow more prevalent than desktops, but a workstation computer will be a very long standing fixture in the lives of those in the developed world. No one is going to write term papers on a...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, mobile world, desktop, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia

Everyone knows I love Wikipedia. Our librarian knows it, regular readers know it, my mom knows it. I defend its value and its place in education as a quick reference, preliminary source, and bibliographic reference on a variety of topics. Properly sourced articles have a great deal of credibility....

Tags: Student, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far

Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with  are great. But others, let's face it,...

Tags: Pizza Hut, Brand, Stunt, Social Media, Twitter, Motrin, Nannerpuss, Jack, Skittles Home Page, Ashton Kutcher, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1Great for science usebut no good as an internet street map.Never intended to be a Google killerIt was never meant to be a Google killer - and only foolish media that depicted it as one. Clearly it is not a search engine, but what it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Alpha, ongoing impression, Look-Up, search engine

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1

I know, it's not actually the first day for Wolfram Alpha, but it is the first business day and, so far, impressions seem to have been mixed. The general consensus on the Twitterverse? It's not Google. Well no kidding, right? It was never meant to me....

Tags: Search Engine, Student, Search, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Doctor Oz takes a risk

Dr. Oz isn't waiting. He's been telling Oprah and any other reporter who will listen that resveratrol is great, a miracle. He even has a Web site pushing his own version of the supplement. It's beginning to remind some of Linus Pauling and Vitamin C. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-05-14

IBM takes its streaming computing software commercial

IBM on Wednesday will unveil the commercial version of its stream computing software, which is used for real-time analysis of data.  The commercial version of this IBM Research software will be dubbed System S. IBM will also establish the IBM European Stream Computing Center in Dublin, Ireland. In...

Tags: Software, Analytics, IBM Corp., System S, TD Securities, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Advances in TREKnology

Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, Corporate communications, Geordi, computer, Kirk

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

WSO2 moves data services component to OSGI-based Carbon framework

Moving to expand its user base to more database folks, WSO2 is releasing the promised data services component to Carbon, the open source company’s new modular service-oriented architecture SOA framework based on the OSGi component model. WSO2 Data Services is “completely re-architected” for Carbon’s componentized approach to...

Tags: Data Service, Database Administrator, SOA, WSO2 Data Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Databases, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Macs on the front lines tracking Influenza A(H1N1) virus

The biggest news item in the news these days is the outbreak of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus (formerly "Swine Flu"), which the World Health Organization described as an "imminent pandemic." It's almost impossible to open a Web browser, RSS reader or Twitter without being bombarded with information...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Outbreak, Virus, Ohio State, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-01

News to know: AOL; Palm; SAP; Facebook; Oprah

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake Andrew Nusca: Would...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Oprah Winfrey, SAP AG, Matthew Miller, Flu, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Stratus Avance 1.5 - A Simple, but Powerful, Way to HA/DR for SMB

There, I got three acronyms into the title of a post!  That was just about as much fun as getting the Wall Street Journal to unknowingly publish a pun as part of a quote! Now that I've said that, let's get down to business. Lee Kaminski, a...

Tags: Stratus Technologies, Small And Medium Business, Avance, Avance Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-29

How can Internet security be stepped up?

The state of Internet security nowadays has reached its worst it has ever seen. With botnets attacking Mac's which was almost unheard of before last week and password thefts, eBay and Twitter scams to identity and data theft which breached the Pentagon. One of the main reasons...

Tags: Password, Internet, Internet Security, P4ssw0rd, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payload

Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payloadSo basically......anyone who patched back in October and who doesn't install dodgy files is still OK?Which seems to be about 99%+ of Windows users.This thing is a walk in the parkcompared to the new w32.Virut.nbn variationsit's game over as soon as you catch itnastiest thing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Patches, SECURITY, Conficker, payload

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor

Symantec, a long time player in the virtualiation technology market, has just launched the Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor. It is designed to help organizations evaluate their disaster recovery plans by scanning the organization's IT infrastructure and comparing what it sees to a very large knowledgebase of potential problems. ...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Center, Knowledgebase, VERITAS Software Corp., Advisor, Tool, Disaster Recovery Advisor, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Browser wars: We're becoming two (maybe three) timers

Browser wars: We're becoming two maybe three timers2 browsersI agree. I am in IT in education. So at work I use Macs. At work I use Safari as my main browser and Firefox also.At home on XP I use Avant browser as my primary, and IE also.But,...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, timer

Discussion threads 2009-03-24