IT Services News | November, 2009

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  1. Web Service for WordPress Password CrackingIT Support is the key as hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the IT security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords.
    PHP scripts located on a virtual server run bruteforce (password guessing) attacks on targeted sites. Many sites can be attacked at the same time by the system, with results written into an associated database.

    The SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Centre notes...

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  2. Locals Fume as BT Boss Gets BroadbandIT company BT has upset the good folk of an Oxfordshire village by giving its chairman broadband ahead of the rest of the residents. Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames, is an IT connectivity "notspot", where the length of the lines make it impossible for BT to provide this IT service – regular ADSL broadband.
    However, BT’s managed to find a way to deliver broadband to its chairman using the company’s recently announced Broadband...

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  3. Firms Must Tailor Web Sites to Digital IT companies must view their customers as members of "digital tribes" and tailor online IT services to them if they are to be successful, according to a white paper from KPMG published today. Revenue models also need to be adapted to these tribes, otherwise firms risk driving traffic away from their internet site, the report says.
    Typical "tribes" are followers of a sports team, computer game enthusiasts, or fans of...

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  4. Malware Can Be Hidden in English TextA team of IT consultants has engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam. Breakthrough paper shows hackers could evade antivirus protection by hiding malicious code in sentences that read like English language spam.

    The work is a breakthrough because current IT security techniques work on the assumption that the code used in code-injection attacks, where it is delivered and run on victims’ computers, has a...

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  5. RIM Updates BlackBerry ServerThe IT company made available Monday the BlackBerry Enterprise Server SP1, and it adds multiple enhancements for companies using RIM’s corporate mail deployment. The update, which is compatible with Microsoft’s Exchange and IBM’s Lotus Notes, boosts the IT department’s ability to manage IT products by adding new administrative permissions, supporting Lotus Notes ID vault, and improving the BlackBerry Administration IT Service by adding more options.

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  6. 'Black Screen of Death' Linked To Patch Microsoft ’s November IT security patch may be to blame for the "black screen of death" that has been plaguing PC users.
    Prevx, an IT products vendor, on Friday attributed some of the black screen crashes to a recent Window operating system change that locked down Windows registry keys. "This change has the effect of invalidating several key registry entries if they are updated without consideration of the new ACL...

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  7. Navy Finds Lessons In Storage Drives The Navy received a report earlier this year of what appeared to be a serious cyber attack which brings us to IT Support need. The breach turned out to be less damaging than feared, but the incident served as a reminder that external storage drives shouldn’t be overlooked as an IT security risk.

    Upon investigation, the Navy found that the laptops contained "high risk" personally identifiable data on only eight people. And...

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  8. Google Puts Movie Search on Mobile Devices Google launched a mobile version of its movie search IT service Tuesday that is compatible with Apple’s iPhone as well as all mobile devices running Android and the Palm webOS. The new IT Support offered promises to make it easier for movie fans to plan their next theater trip while on the go.
    The IT company movie search results are available now in English on mobile devices in the United...

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  9. Chinese EBay Rival Unveils Branded Mobile Phone China’s biggest online auction and retail Internet site plans to stamp its brand on a new mobile phone, the first time it’s name will be put on a device, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
    Taobao.com plans this week to announce the IT service, which will be co-branded by Lenovo Mobile and come with a pre-installed application, the source said Wednesday. The handset is part of ongoing...

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  10. Nokia Must Speed up TransformationNokia needs to speedily boost its offering of mobile internet solutions and IT Support, marketing head Anssi Vanjoki told a German magazine and did not rule out a sale of its core handset manufacturing business in the long term.
    The IT company – No. 1 global cellphone maker, needs to catch up with the rivals Apple, Google and Blackberry-maker RIM in offering IT services, Vanjoki was quoted as saying by weekly Wirtschaftswoche in...

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