Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Chile Earthquake Search Engine Poisoning

The Sans Institute is reporting yet another search engine poisoning surrounding a major event. This time, it is the recent earthquake in Chile. According to the Institute, unsuspecting searchers looking for information about the devastating 8.8 earthquake find malware laced sites rather than information.
“Search Google for “Chile Earthquake” and you will find a [...]

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Search Poising latest Olympic Tragedy

The SANS Technology Institute is reporting that many unsuspecting Olympic searchers are finding malware rather than Olympic news through Google search results poisoning.
According to SANS: “…the killed Georgian luge athlete is used to redirect unsuspecting users to fake anti virus and other malicious content. The redirect is browser dependent. Firefox is usually redirected to [...]

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Better DNS Servers for faster browsing

I regularly have customers tell me that “their internet is slow” despite having such and such speed tier with their ISP. While there can be many causes for slow page loads including, viruses, spyware, network congestion and ISP network issues to just name a few, often the culprit can be narrowed down to just [...]

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Blackberry Outages: Headaches for Everyone

For the second time just weeks, Blackberry’s across North America are falling silent as the data stops flowing.
Once again, the ‘Net is abuzz with reports of an outage of Blackberry Internet Services (BIS), the consumer data gatekeeper for Blackberry users. So far, it seems that the outage is affecting all data services except for [...]

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Google Maps Navigation

Having the power of Google and “the cloud” on your dash or the palm of your hand when traveling to provide turn-by-turn guidance is coming to an Android smartphone near you! Recently Google announced the reality of such convenience on their blog.
So, you too really can “get their from here.”

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