| Free Defense Against the Conficker Worm The rampaging Conficker worm (aka Downadup) has managed to infect millions of PCs across the globe, but it has an Achilles heel. One that a company called OpenDNS plans to strike starting Monday. Geeks.com operator settles data breach complaint An online seller of computer supplies and consumer electronics has failed to adequately protect customer data and will have to submit to outside audits for 10 years in a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. DeVault Helps Protect Against Identity Theft If you need to protect personal and sensitive documents from prying eyes, you'll find deVault 2009 an excellent, free solution. It uses Blowfish 256-bit encryption to keep your documents private, and offers plenty of features for encrypting, decrypting, and managing your documents. More Internet spam in January: MessageLabs Global Internet spam levels rose 4.9% in January this year since December 2008 to 74.6%, according to the MessageLabs Intelligence Report. This is the proportion of e-mail that was blocked as spam by the tech firm's e-mail protect services. MS cites 'click fatigue' for Windows 7 security change Microsoft changed the default settings of one of its most important security features for Windows 7 because users balked at clicking more than two prompts a day, a company executive said Thursday. RIM's new bid for Certicom trumps VeriSign's, says board Research In Motion has doubled the value of its previous offer to buy elliptic curve cryptography specialist Certicom, one of its suppliers. Certicom's board of directors says RIM's latest offer is superior to the bid it accepted from VeriSign last month. The board is waiting for a counterbid from VeriSign. Critical Flaw in RealPlayer, Firefox Fixes A serious flaw in the RealPlayer media player from RealNetworks could allow an attacker to take control of a victim PC if you open a poisoned movie file, or even just preview it in Windows Explorer, according to a new notice from Fortinet. Windows 7 UAC Fix Doesn't Address UAC's Fatal Flaw Microsoft quickly changed its position on a flaw with the UAC default notification setting issue in Windows 7, but ultimately this doesn't solve UAC's real problem, says blogger Mitchell Ashley. VoIP Threat Taxonomy VoIP users beware, spammers are targeting you, because it is very difficult to filter VoIP spam. Cisco Subnet blogger Patrick Park dissects the types of threats you face. Learn how Web sites collect private info on you (and your kids) In honor of Data Privacy Day, Cisco launched a Website, whitepaper and Facebook page which teaches consumers the hows and whys of Website data collection, reports blogger Jamey Heary. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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