The Different Types of Spy Software Programs

In reality, there are various types of programs that can be used for spying purposes. Spy software is very common in the internet today. We can see millions of them found in freeware websites and forums.

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Microsoft Warns About Pitfalls of Pirated Software

Aside from the fact that Microsoft loses money each time you purchase unlicensed software, there seems to be a pretty good argument against doing so. Not that you should need some convincing, right? After all, anyone who considers himself an upstanding citizen does not buy pirated software. Even if it’s Microsoft. Or maybe especially if it’s Microsoft. Of course, what happens in the shadow does not always coincide with publicly made statements, and based on a study done by Microsoft, in Southeast Asia, the use of pirated software is still rampant. Worse, unlicensed software even comes with newly purchased computers. The study uncovered alarming details, not the least of which is that there are 5,601 types of malware to be found in laptops that come pre-installed with pirated Windows operating systems! (Source) If you think that purchasing a branded laptop or desktop computer gives you an edge in terms of malware, don’t be so sure about that. Keshav Dhakad, Regional Director for Intellectual Property of Microsoft Asia Pacific and Japan, said in announcement: “Many people assume that buying a name-brand PC is all that’s required to guarantee a good and safe computing experience. They don’t think about the software sold with [...]

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The end of the line for Symbian

Buried deep within Nokia's press release about its financial results, there's a line that pretty much signals the end of one of the most popular and successful mobile operating systems in history. With Nokia retiring its use, Symbian is no more.
Symbian wasn't only incredibly successful, it's also incredibly old. Many people think Symbian originated at Psion as EPOC, but that's not entirely true. Technically speaking, Symbian is EPOC32, which is a different operating system than EPOC. EPOC was written in 8086 assembler and C, and powered many of Psion's PDAs, including the Series 3a pictured below. This thing is a joy to use, actually, even though it's from 1993 and uses a 8086. The built-in spell checker is pretty amazing, and quite fast.
EPOC32 is EPOC's (renamed to EPOC16 or SIBO to distinguish it from EPOC32) successor, and was written in C++. It was a completely new operating system, and introduced features to Psion's PDAs such as pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection, and left the 8086 behind in favour of ARM processors. It was first released in 1997.

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RSA introduces disaster recovery and crisis management solution

RSA, the Security Division of EMC, introduced two additions to its RSA Archer product suite designed to help customers meet ever changing and comprehensive business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management demands. 


RSA Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations is one of the industry's most tightly integrated solutions designed to address business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management. Engineered to align with BS25999, NIMS and ISO 22301, it offers a standards-based approach to business continuity planning. 

Watering hole campaign targeting "Reporters without Borders" visitors

Watering hole attacks continue unabated and, according to Avast's Director of Threat Intelligence Jindrich Kubec, the finger could be safely pointed to China once again.

The latest website compromised to redirect visitors to sites serving exploits for the recently patched IE zero-day vulnerability and two Java flaws (CVE-2013-0422 and CVE-2011-3544) is the official site of Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontières), an international non-governmental organization advocating freedom of the press and freedom of information.

Barracuda Networks confirms exploitable backdoors in its appliances

Barracuda Networks has released firmware updates that remove SSH backdoors in a number of their products and resolve a vulnerability in Barracuda SSL VPN that allows attackers to bypass access restrictions to download potentially insecure files, set new admins passwords, or even shut down the device.

The backdoor accounts are present on in all available versions of Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, Link Balancer, Load Balancer, and SSL VPN appliances.

Security intelligence solutions for mobile technology providers

Webroot announced the availability of a portfolio of internet security solutions that give mobile technology providers – from carriers to device manufacturers to mobile device management (MDM) companies – easily deployable and cost-effective services to make security an integral part of their own offerings.

The Webroot Security Intelligence for Mobile Suite draws on the power of the Webroot Intelligence Network (WIN), the world's most comprehensive cloud-based security intelligence service, to deliver the most advanced threat defense to tablets and smartphones.