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Rising Internet Security 21.56.32 (Windows)

Rising Internet Security provides antivirus protection and customizable personal firewall service both, protects your computer against all types of Internet threats. With Rising Cloud Security project, it provides you zero day security response and protection. Key Feature: Zero day protection with Rising Cloud Security, Rising Cloud Security users communicate with...

Tags: Rising Antivirus, Personal Firewall, Microsoft Windows, Internet Security, Rising Internet Security, Internet, Firewalls, Security, Network Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking

Software downloads 2009-04-02

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Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content

Facebook is ranked as one of the 10 most trusted companies when it comes to privacy, according to the findings from a survey by the Ponemon Institute, an information security research company, and TRUSTe, a widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark company. The social networking site - ranked...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

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. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choice

Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choiceDude, you are the man.I just posted this at Ed Botts article.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66708&messageID=1260493Next I hit HOME, and VOILA, see you have just posted what I've been complaining about. GOOD JOB !LOL, let me feed your click-bait[i]I used to be a big fan of IE,...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, toxic choice, ActiveX, ActiveX vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

ENTERPRISE SECURITY GETS SMART

IT security professionals are increasingly more concerned about the ever-rising threat from computer viruses. Many would argue the bad guys are getting ahead in the security industry and that now is the time for a new paradigm. Perhaps the answers lie in "the cloud," which already promises...

Tags: Enterprise Security, IT Security, Trend Micro Inc., IT Security Professional, Security

White papers 2009-06-17

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

The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?

The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?So, in the future......"Live Free or Die Hard" could end up being a prophetic sort of documentary. That blows.There's only one solution. FIX IT!RE: The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?All this while Obama...

Tags: obama, electrical grid, grid, critical asset, Hillary

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Protect Your Ability to Deliver Valued Services

The rising tide of spam and malware challenges service providers of every type: Internet Service Providers ISPs, Managed Service Providers MSPs, mobile operators, Application Service Providers ASPs, and others. It consumes bandwidth, increasing infrastructure expenditures. Customer complaints tie up the help desk, increasing operational costs. Worst of all, the resulting...

Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security

White papers 2009-03-01

Can IBM sustain its momentum?

Can IBM sustain its momentum?detailsso profit and "earnings" are up and margin is high - but can customers and clients count on IBM as a quality deliverer of solutions when those numbers are created through layoffs, resource actions, and payroll cuts? the devil is in the details and all the...

Tags: Leadership, Operational accounting, Strategy, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Software Company Enriches Cloud-Based Backup Solution With Structured Data Storage

Zmanda is a leader in open source backup and recovery software. It found that small and midsize customers especially were having trouble providing backup and disaster recovery solutions for rising data volumes. The company created Zmanda Internet Backup, which backs up files and applications for the Windows operating system to...

Tags: Software, Data Storage, Zmanda, Storage, Backups, Hardware

Case studies 2009-01-19

AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malware

AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malwareAnd why would they not?Many Windows files are indeed malware, Rootkits, and spyware. Anything Microsoft places on a PERSONAL computer to control or manipulate the computer or the PERSON, and furnishing zero benefit to or approval of the user person, is...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, malware, Windows File, AVG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, virus, antivirus

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

New security venture for mid-market application users

Good time for a new offering: When Wipro met Fortify Wipro (one of the world’s largest outsourcers) and Fortify a major software security vendor are announcing today their plans to offer a new joint outsourcing solution. This solution combines Fortify’s software security tools with Wipro’s outsourcing...

Tags: Software, Security Professional, Security, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

NSA coordinates cyberattack response

The Washington Post reports: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the...

Tags: Agency, Monitoring, Needle, Cyberattack, Computer, NSA, Government, Internet, Hacking, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-27

Microsoft to add a 'super standards' mode to IE 8

Microsoft to add a 'super standards' mode to IE 8Message has been deleted.Wow...Just this one statement is more telling than anything you could make up... "allowing web developers to easily write code to interoperable web standards while not causing compatibility problems with current content". So what he is saying...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., standards, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Spy Sweeper 5.5

Webroot Spy Sweeper 5.5 offers little change from our previously reviewed Spy Sweeper 5.3. What is new are the CNET antispyware test results that show SpySweeper rising into the top three, buoyed by strong on-demand detection and removal scores. Lowering the product, however, is the intrusion of a third-party toolbar...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Spy Sweeper, antivirus, Webroot Software Inc., Spy Sweeper 5.5

Product reviews 2007-12-17

News to know: Salesforce.com; Second Life currency theft; SAP; Document standards

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers. Dan Farber: SAP blesses the iPhone. Michael Krigsman: SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up David Berlind: Did the W3C acknowledge CDF’s potential as an office format vs ODF in newly...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Second Life, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Mozilla Corp., Standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), E-health, Microsoft Windows, Security, Emerging Technologies, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2007-12-05

News to know: XP SP3; IE7; RIM shines; RIAA's victory

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers. Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free. Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins coming, 4 critical. Sun issues patch for 'highly critical' Java...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, RIAA, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Security, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Blog posts 2007-10-05