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McAfee Labs Predicts Threats for 2012

[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.09.12 under Security & Privacy

McAfee Labs 2012 Threat Predictions Include High-Profile Industrial Attacks, Cyberwarfare Demonstrations and New Hacktivist Targets

RISE IN “LEGITIMATE” SPAM AND THREATS TO MOBILE BANKING, VIRTUAL CURRENCY AND EMBEDDED HARDWARE EXPECTED IN THE COMING YEAR

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–McAfee today unveiled its 2012 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats that McAfee foresees for the coming year. The list indicates that emerging threats from 2011 are on track to become the major players for cyberactivity in 2012, including mobile banking, “legal” spam and virtual currency. McAfee Labs also predicts that attacks involving political motivation or notoriety will also make headlines, including high-profile industrial attacks, cyberwarfare demonstrations and hacktivist attacks targeting public figures.

“Many of the threats that will become prominent in 2012 have already been looming under the radar in 2011,” said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs. “Over the past year, the general public has become more aware of some of these risks, such as threats to critical infrastructure or the impact of hacktivism as they gain international media attention. In the meantime, we continue to see cybercriminals improving their toolkits and malware and are ready to make a significant impact in 2012.”
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Yahoo! Awarded $610 Million Against Spammers

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.31.11 under Business, Security & Privacy

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced it has been awarded a $610 million default judgment against spammers responsible for a fake Yahoo! lottery email scheme. In the scheme, email messages were unlawfully sent to Internet users with the intent of deceiving them into believing they had won a lottery prize offered by Yahoo!. The order was handed down by a federal district court judge in New York on Monday, December 5, 2011.

The order in Yahoo!’s favor was the culmination of a multi-year lawsuit that began in 2008. The judge found the defaulting defendants jointly and severally liable as participants in a conspiracy under New York common law. The $610 million judgment was comprised of a statutory damages award for trademark infringement in the amount of $27 million and a statutory damages award for violation of the CAN-SPAM Act in the amount of $583 million. Yahoo! was also awarded attorneys’ fees.
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Cybercriminals Kick Off Holiday Season by Spreading Malware and Phishing Attacks

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.30.11 under Security & Privacy

GFI Labs identified numerous scams last month, including cybercriminals posing as the federal government to exploit food stamp recipients

CLEARWATER, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GFI Software today released its VIPRE® Report, a compilation of the 10 most prevalent threat detections for the previous month. Noteworthy threats in November 2011 included a new Facebook worm; the return of PDF-based malware posing as the U.S. Postal Service; Bank of America and SunTrust Bank phishing scams; and a phony food stamp website.

“Staying vigilant online—especially during the holiday shopping season—is key to not falling victim to scams or infecting a PC by clicking on malicious links or files,” said Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher for GFI Software. “When in doubt, users should take a page from Santa’s playbook by ‘checking it twice.’ Never open attachments or provide information in response to unsolicited emails, and always remember that a bank will never ask for sensitive information via email.”
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Digital River Launches High-Capacity E-Commerce Solution that Captures over 6,000 Online Orders per Second

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.28.11 under ASP Member Companies, Business

Handles large volume, high traffic launches of digital titles and physical products on a global basis

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it engineered and launched a new, high-capacity e-commerce solution that can capture in excess of 6,000 online orders per second on a global basis. Built to handle sudden spikes in traffic and large-volume orders, the high-performance solution is ideal for managing the increased order demands associated with hotly anticipated merchandising events, door buster discounts, and preorder sales or releases of digital titles and physical products, including massively multiplayer online games (MMO) and collectible items.

Digital River’s High-Capacity Order Solution is built on the backbone of the company’s Global Commerce™ enterprise system, which supports tens of thousands of online businesses around the world. To streamline and regulate the online order process for on-demand software and game titles as well as consumer electronics products, the Digital River solution places online shoppers in a virtual checkout line to capture their orders. After receiving the orders, the system then processes the purchase and payment on a first-come, first-served basis. Once a successful purchase has been completed, a notification, and if required a digital license key, is sent to the consumer.
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Avangate Included in Independent Research Firm Report on Key Solutions for Digital Commerce

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.27.11 under ASP Member Companies, Business

Company Noted for Commerce Solution and Channel Management Program

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.–Avangate, the agile eCommerce solutions provider trusted by thousands of Software and SaaS companies to grow their business worldwide through any channel and any model, is featured in a new report from Forrester Research on the industry’s leading digital commerce solutions. Recognizing a growing need among consumers for access to digital content, the report highlights tactics for selecting an ecommerce provider and looks at some of the key solutions available in the market today.

“In the past, online transactions for digital product purchases differed little from physical product purchases, with the exception of the delivery method,” Market Overview: Digital Commerce Solutions 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., 11/7/11. “However, today’s digitally connected consumer is eschewing the traditional ownership model of buy, download, install, and use. Consumers want access to digital content and services across their connected devices, anytime, anywhere.”
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HM2GO: A Free Mini Web Server for Local WebHelp

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.21.11 under ASP Member Companies, Development

EC Software, manufacturer of the leading Help & Manual help authoring suite, has just released a free mini web server called Help & Manual 2 Go that solves a common problem associated with modern HTML-based documentation.

Technical documentation, online help and manuals are increasingly distributed as HTML on CD or DVD, or installed locally together with the software. The HTML-based “WebHelp” generated by modern documentation tools like Help & Manual, RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help comes with powerful navigation, search and other features and displays in standard web browsers, making it very user-friendly and accessible.

The problem is that browsers are increasingly implementing security features that prevent WebHelp from running properly when it is opened from local drives or optical media without a web server. It used to be possible to get Internet Explorer to run JavaScript locally with the help of proprietary tags. However, the latest versions of modern browsers like Google Chrome are now making it all but impossible to use scripts that communicate between the frames or iFrames needed to display a scrolling table of contents, topics and other elements on the same page.

Help & Manual 2 Go is a mini web server that solves this problem: It consists of a single 1.7MB file that contains everything needed to serve a complete WebHelp system to the local browser – even when opened from optical media. The browser sees a normal web server and behaves accordingly, opening the WebHelp with full functionality. You just need to store the HM2GO.EXE file on the CD or install it along with your software and start it together with the WebHelp documentation.
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