Kaspersky Lab Publishes Its Virus Chart
In the final month of 2007, the virus world ranged from 12-byte specimens to 85 MB giants, eleven-times-packed backdoors and familiar names across different categories.
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Credit-Card-Sized Hard Drive Offers up to 120 GB of Storage
TrekStor introduced the DataStation microdisk, a 1.8-inch external hard drive measuring 9 × 5.7 × 0.64 cm, with 20, 80 and 120 GB capacities.
Apple Announces Wireless Time Capsule Backup
Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server hard drive for automatic wireless Time Machine backups from one or more Macs.
E-sports players face each other in court for the first time
Cheating allegation in online game led to league exclusion.
More than 95 percent browse with unpatched software
Secunia warns of a new dangerous QuickTime vulnerability.
No duty to monitor internet use within the family
Owners of internet connections only have to monitor family members’ use of the connection if there are indications of a legal violation.
Linden Lab wants to delete dubious banks from Second Life
The virtual online world Second Life will soon have to manage without many financial-service providers and banks that have already established themselves there.
Kabel BW begins switching encryption system in Stuttgart
To offer video on demand and other interactive multimedia services in future - such as an electronic programme guide, time-shifted playback of certain offerings or games - Kabel BW is currently introducing the new NDS VideoGuard encryption system.
Apple introduces the most powerful Apple server ever with the new Xserve
Apple has introduced a new Xserve. The 1U rack-mount server is up to twice as fast as its predecessor* and includes a licence for an unlimited number of Mac OS X Server Leopard clients. Available from €2,899 including VAT, the new Xserve offers up to two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors for eight-core performance, a new server architecture, faster front-side buses, faster memory, up to 3 TB of internal storage and two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for higher performance and flexibility.
Hitachi: 500 GB hard drive for notebooks
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) is presenting the world’s largest 2.5-inch hard drive, the Travelstar 5K500. It makes 500 GB available for slim desktop PCs, fully equipped notebooks, game consoles and other mobile devices.
Panda Security’s 2007 virus year in review
At the start of the new year, Panda Security publishes – as it does every year – a list of the twelve most unusual computer pests of the past twelve months.
AOL Lets Netscape Die
The Netscape Navigator Internet browser, which shaped the beginnings of the web revolution, is at an end. From February onward, the Internet group AOL will no longer release security updates.
Overview of the Most Important Changes in the IT and Telecommunications Sector
In the new year, consumers and companies must once again prepare for a series of legislative changes. BITKOM has compiled an overview of the most important changes for the ICT sector:
Release Group LEX Announces Withdrawal
fter the international search operation against suspected release-group members on September 20 of this year, set in motion by the GVU and led by the Hürth criminal police, the associated scene remains in motion
Course Successfully Set for Restructuring
Ronald Schäfer, previously Managing Director of the Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements (GVU), will leave the organization's service on December 31, 2007, after almost three years of trusting cooperation with the board and committees.
Microsoft at CeBIT 2008: Debut for New Windows Servers
Bakery at the main stand in Hall 4 shows the importance of IT for small companies and craft businesses.
Online Piracy Central Topic of the Event
Last Wednesday, the general meeting of the Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements (GVU) confirmed the incumbent board.
Axel Diekmann Becomes New Managing Director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH
Axel Diekmann is to become the new Managing Director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH and will therefore manage the Russian company's business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from January 1, 2008. The 44-year-old has worked as Channel Sales Manager for Kaspersky Lab since 2004. He succeeds Andreas Lamm, who is taking over the company's European business as Managing Director Europe.
83 Percent of German Broadband Users
83 percent of broadband users in Germany are interested in “Connected Life” services. With “Connected Life”, households can store, manage and access all digital media regardless of location and terminal device. More than half of broadband users in Germany would be willing to pay for “Connected Life” services – an average of five euros per month.
Forum Software phpBB Focuses on the Mobile Web
Version 3.0 promises security and easier administration.
Andreas Lamm Becomes European Head of Kaspersky Lab
At its last meeting, Kaspersky Lab's Board of Directors decided to reorganise the company's international structure. On January 1, 2008, five regional headquarters will be established to support and coordinate the activities of the local branches. Andreas Lamm, currently managing director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH, will head the European headquarters from Ingolstadt as Managing Director.
European Innovation Alliance for the Internet of the Future Launched
Schavan: "We are making a central contribution to the future technical standard"
Present Wirelessly with Edimax. Integrated Access Point in the WP-S1000 Enables Multiple Use of a Projector
Edimax Technology (http://www.edimax-de.eu/), a leading manufacturer of network products and solutions, presents the WP-S1000, a new Wireless Projector Server. The device with integrated access point enables wireless data transmission to office projectors. Via a secured 802.11b/g network, the WP-S1000 transports files by radio, such as images or presentations, without connecting the laptop directly to the projector.
Kaspersky Lab: Top 20 for November
As every month, the antivirus specialist once again presented its hit list of the most widespread malware.
Actimagine builds mobile-video retail platform
Actimagine develops a secure mobile-video distribution platform for India’s Mobile Magic retail chain.
D-Link Introduces WLAN Router with IPTV Support
Quality of Service ensures uninterrupted video streams
Adobe Announces Flash Media Server 3
Improved protection for video streaming in HD format / New pricing model
D-Link Introduces WLAN Router with IPTV Support.
Quality of Service ensures uninterrupted video streams.
Kaspersky Lab Discovers “Universal Code” for Malware
The antivirus specialist discovered striking parallels between different pests
Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel Launches „A Network for Children“
Political and business initiative creates Germany's first protected browsing space for children with fragFINN.de.
Data Retention Arouses Ever New Desires
On Friday, November 30, the Bundesrat will deal with the law reorganising telecommunications surveillance, which prescribes blanket retention of communications connection data.
Kaspersky Lab Publishes Its October Extreme Virus Hit Parade
For the month of October, Kaspersky Lab once again publishes its extreme virus hit parade.
Invitation to the specialist and press conference “VIRTUAL WORLDS ON THE INTERNET”
Speakers: IBM, Linden Lab, Sun Microsystems, TU Munich, UdK Berlin, Deutsche Telekom, Random House, Deutsche Bundesbank and others.
Personality counts in politics: Videonize enters politics
Mayoral candidate and candidates of Erding’s independent voters use video e-mail in the election campaign.
Spam avalanche: 95 percent of e-mails are junk
Trend is returning to pure text spam - pdf and images are declining.
Xbox 360: Family Timer prevents excessive use
"Only limiting audiovisual media consumption is too little".
ViewSonic Expands Entry-Level VA Displays
Nine VA-series LCD displays span 17 to 22 inches, with 16:10 or 5:4 panels, dynamic contrast and analogue or DVI-D/HDCP inputs.
ViewSonic Adds Three XGA Projectors
The PJ758, PJ759 and PJ760 combine native XGA resolution, 3LCD imaging and outputs from 2,200 to 3,200 ANSI lumens.
First Windows Home Server devices available in the USA
Numerous solutions will go on sale in Germany for the Christmas business
sleeq shows where friends are
Community network is intended to make coordination within circles of friends easier.
FileMaker Conference 2007
From beginner to advanced – at Gut Ising, information will be provided for two days.
Army of zombie PCs out of control
Infection mainly through drive-by downloads on supposedly harmless sites.
Wireless & Mobility conference on November 8 at Interop Berlin
The organizational and technical linking of mobile communications and WLAN is the focus of the Wireless & Mobility conference at the Interop Congress on November 8. High-caliber speakers from Hewlett-Packard, Veriwave, Nokia, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Ipass and Extricom report on concrete solutions and new technologies at the Berlin exhibition grounds.
Filemaker Conference 2007
From beginner to advanced – at Gut Ising, information will be provided for two days
Sybase launches mBanking 365
New service offering enables banks and customers to interact efficiently and cost-effectively – anytime and anywhere
NDS secures and supports new satellite offering from Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel, a leading mobile network operator in India, chooses solutions from NDS for a new digital direct-to-home satellite platform
Kaspersky Lab publishes its hit parade of extreme viruses for September
Kaspersky Lab once again publishes its top ten greediest, nastiest, smallest, largest, best-hidden and most hostile pests. September seems to be a month of trojans: eight of ten extreme pests belong to this genus. The ranking includes dangerous 19-byte midgets and 243-MB giants, an old acquaintance in the e-mail distribution category and trojans, viruses and worms with numerous variants.
Big Brother Awards 2007: Prizes for C.S.I. and taxi association
Hans Dichand honored as a "Lifelong Nuisance".
Nvidia’s graphics cards become password crackers
The GPU’s computing power accelerates password recovery.
Kaspersky Lab launches Kaspersky Hosted Security Services
Kaspersky Lab presents Kaspersky Hosted Security Services at this year’s Systems. With mailDefend, webDefend and imDefend, companies can protect all of their Internet and communications traffic against malware and spam without installing software locally. The services are available immediately.
Kaspersky Lab analyzes first MP3 spam wave
Kaspersky Lab has subjected the MP3 spam mails that appeared for the first time to an initial analysis. Based on the findings obtained from this, the company expects that this form of spam will not prevail.
VoIP attack: First computer break-in via SIP
“Vulnerability shows that we now live in the Web 2.0 world”.
Skype plug-in turns out to be a data thief
VoIP company warns against supposed security package.
First MP3 spam in circulation
Once again, a new round in the competition between spam senders and spam filters is being ushered in. For the first time, a spam e-mail with an MP3 attachment has been caught in antispameurope’s filters.
Apple also wants to allow third-party software on the iPhone
From next year, Apple will also allow third-party programs on its iPhone mobile phone. Programmers are to receive the necessary information for this in February, company chief Steve Jobs announced on the Apple website on Wednesday.
Austria clears the way for the federal Trojan
Online search of private PCs permitted from autumn 2008.
RapidShare expands again: 170 gigabits per second, four petabytes of storage capacity
5.4 percent of all Internet users worldwide use rapidshare.com.
SYNCING:NET and MOBILITY-OFFICE cooperate
Berlin data-synchronization specialist SYNCING.NET Technologies GmbH and MOBILITY-OFFICE Solutions AG from Munich are concluding a cooperation agreement. With the partnership, the two providers make it possible to make data and programs available at any time and in any place. Together, the companies are further developing their technologies for mobile use and automatic synchronization of data.
IBM and Linden Lab Plan Portable Avatars
IBM and Linden Lab explore portable avatars, secure cross-world transactions and interfaces to existing web applications and databases.
Kaspersky Lab integrates PhishTank database into Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
Kaspersky Lab is now integrating the PhishTank database into the anti-phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. The PhishTank service from the Californian company OpenDNS collects known phishing websites in a database that is constantly updated by the international open-source community. Kaspersky Lab has also been actively participating in this project for some time and supplements the PhishTank database with its own information about phishing sites.
Remote maintenance goes mobile
Remote Software Solution specialist NTRglobal is clearly focusing on mobile remote access and support of IT systems at this year’s Systems: Using reference examples, the company will show in Hall A2, Stand 326, how IT administrators will in future be able to access the IT infrastructure to be managed from any location with their Pocket PC using NTRadmin.
Australia: Zombie hunters track down hijacked computers
The "Australian Internet Security Initiative" has dedicated itself to the goal of tracking down zombie PCs individually and cleaning them of malicious programs.
Kaspersky Lab presents its email top 20 for September 2007
The September rating was unable to confirm some forecasts by the virus experts at Kaspersky Lab: Contrary to expectations, the active spread of the Trojan Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.brk in August did not lead to the creation of a botnet, and the Warezov family is entirely absent from the September top 20.
T-Shirt Shows Wi-Fi Networks in the Vicinity
ThinkGeek sells more or less useful toys for technology freaks.
Kaspersky Lab Extends Support Hours for End Customers
From October 15, 2007, Kaspersky Lab is significantly extending the availability of its telephone support team. The hotline will then be available to private customers at telephone number +49 (0)1805-554624 from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A call costs 14 cents per minute.
Kaspersky Lab Presents Kaspersky Hosted Security Services at Systems
Kaspersky Lab is presenting its complete range of enterprise security solutions at this year's Systems from October 23 to 26 at Messe München.
Kaspersky Lab Publishes Study on Password Theft in Online Games
Online games continue to enjoy growing popularity. But the more people plunge into virtual pleasure, the more lucrative it becomes for criminals to concern themselves with this subject. Because: virtual possessions can be worth real money in real life. And so some users of online games have specialized in swindling real money through the theft of virtual property.
NDS Demonstrates New Technology Platforms at IBC 2007
NDS’s presence at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam is entirely focused on digital media convergence: NDS responds to trends in digital media use with a portfolio of new technologies based on convergent and integrated solutions.
Rimage Video Protect Blocks Rip and Copy Programs
Rimage Corporation, manufacturer of recordable CD, DVD and Blu-ray publishing systems, has introduced Rimage Video Protect, its new copy-management application.
Maintaining Modern Workstations Remotely
NTRglobal recognized the trend toward increasing the productivity of multi-display workstations early on, and with its NTRsupport remote-support solution offers suitable software for web-based IT assistance from afar.
IBC 2007: Rimage Protects Against Content Pirates
Rimage Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of recordable CD, DVD and Blu-ray publishing systems, is presenting Rimage Video Protect, its new copy-management application, at the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.
Wirecard AG at Games Convention 2007
When the gates of the Games Convention open for the 5th time this year on August 22, Wirecard AG will be represented several times over. The provider of ePayment solutions presents its range of services with two trade-fair appearances and thus addresses both trade visitors and games-enthusiastic consumers.
“Anyone who brakes is out”
Kaspersky Lab will participate twice over at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig: Under the motto “anyone who brakes is out”, performance champion Kaspersky Lab shows the optimal protection for gamer PCs.
Google’s Web History research software released
The search engine operator offers the software in German and in 25 other languages.
Hunt for first uploader of “The Simpsons Movie” on the net
Two days after the official cinema release of “The Simpsons Movie”, investigators from the GVU - Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements together with P4M - The Internet Agents documented the first German-language pirated copy on the net during the night from Friday to Saturday.
stern.de: Pornography on youth portal “SchülerVZ”
On the “SchülerVZ” youth Internet portal, which belongs to the Holtzbrinck media group, there are hundreds of entries that are explicitly pornographic or far-right.
Kaspersky Lab appoints Günter Fuhrmann Director Hosted Security
Kaspersky Lab has appointed Günter Fuhrmann Director Hosted Security Europe. Fuhrmann was most recently Managing Director at BlackSpider Technologies. The 46-year-old is to build the Kaspersky Hosted Security Service.
Windows Home Server is finished
Microsoft has completed the Windows Home Server software and released it for production. Hardware partners will shortly receive the final English, German, French and Spanish versions and can use them to bring Windows Home Server devices to market.
Police, customs and public prosecutors together at anti-piracy forum for the first time
From July 3 to 4, the first International Symposium "Combating Trademark and Product Piracy" took place in Cologne. More than one hundred responsible people from law-enforcement and investigative authorities, business and politics followed the invitation from the Cologne Customs Criminal Investigation Office and the editorial team of "die neue Polizei" to discuss procedures for protecting intellectual property.
Criminal complaints against first distributors of “HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX” on file-sharing networks
A few days after the official cinema release of HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, GVU, Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen e.V., filed several criminal complaints against the first distributors of pirated copies of the film.
Halle Local Court finds: Downloading pirated copies is punishable
Not only the sale of illegal film and game copies, but also the downloading of such files constitutes a criminal act. This was the finding of the Halle Local Courtt on July 11.
Music industry steps up action against operators of illegal file-sharing networks
Making one's computer available as a server for illegal file-sharing networks can become expensive. In a preliminary injunction now served, the Hamburg Regional Court (case no. 308 O 273/07) ordered the provider of an eDonkey server to take his computer off the network as long as illegal music files are offered there for download.
Update for QuickTime
Apple released an update for QuickTime yesterday. It is version 7.2 with 53 MBytes.
“Verified in Germany” Becomes a Quality Mark for German Software
Software errors cause economic damage of well over 100 billion euros annually in Europe. Because requirements are often misjudged during software development and the existing technology for troubleshooting is very laborious, manufacturers today spend 70-80 percent of their work on removing software errors.
Mobile Television Germany Wins Naspers as Strategic Investor
South African media group invests in mobile TV provider
Rumour: Windows Vista Service Pack as Early as February
New release candidate distributed to beta testers
NAB: Irdeto announces Debitel as mobile encryption customer
Specialist manufacturer Irdeto presents encryption solutions for mobile devices at NAB and provides the security technology for Debitel's mobile TV service
Verimatrix VCAS Adds Digital Watermarking to IPTV
New system is intended to identify the original recipient of copied IPTV content
IBC: Sonic Shows First Authoring Solutions for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
For Both HD-DVD and the Competing Blu-Ray Format, Sonic Is Showing Authoring Solutions at IBC. However, There Is No Release Date Yet
IBC: DVB-H as a Beacon of Hope for TV and Mobile Phones
Broadcasting and Mobile Communications Industries Place High Expectations on Mobile Television. Extensive Technology and Product Demonstrations Can Be Seen at IBC
Alcatraz Adds Remote Video Surveillance
Alcatraz Remote Access software added status checks, control, live monitoring and media transfer to the security system.
Liquid Silver Supports UK Witness Identification
Yorkshire Police adopted the Viper video-identification system using Pinnacle Liquid Silver after a year-long pilot.
CeBIT: Axis Shows a Panoramic Network Camera
Axis combined two wide-angle network cameras with software for a 180-degree panorama, PTZ detail views and 15 fps IP video streaming.