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• • What now for Yahoo?
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  • 63 days old
  • Oh dear, poor Yahoo.If you are a Yahoo shareholder, then brace yourself to lose quite a hefty chunk of your investment when US stock markets open on Monday. If you work for Yahoo and have stock options, you will be smarting as well.And if you work for Yahoo's legal team, you may want to get ready for a deluge of lawsuits from enraged... more
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• • Microsoft walks away from Yahoo
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  • 63 days old
  • Software giant Microsoft has dropped itsthree-month-old bid to buyinternet firm Yahoo because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptablesale price.Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer formally withdrew the offerin a letter to Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang.Mr Ballmer said Microsoft had raised its original offer from $44.6bnto $47.5bn... more
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• • Microsoft developing 'senior PC'
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  • 66 days old
  • Microsoft developing 'senior PC' By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter, BBC News The UK government has committed to endingdigital exclusion Microsoft UK is developing a "senior PC", whichwill have a simple interface and be aimed at older users.The PC will come... more
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• • Infosec: Malware to grow tenfold in 2008
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  • 72 days old
  • Thenumber of online threats will have grown tenfold by the end of 2007,according to researchers at anti-malware firm Kaspersky..Kasperskyanalysts said at Infosec Europe 2008 that new malicious programsrecorded on the internet, including viruses, worms and Trojans,amounted to 2.2 million in 2007, representing a fourfold increase onthe 535,131... more
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• • Infosec: Rock Phish threat deepens
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  • 72 days old
  • Security firm RSA has warned that thesoftware kit behind half of the world's phishing attacks has beenupgraded..The RockPhish software has been used in attacks on over 40 European and USfinancial institutions.Thetool has been very successful, using innovations including unique URLgeneration to defeat blacklists. But Rock Phish has not used... more
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• • Experts warn of 'Tornado' hacker tool
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  • 72 days old
  • Securityresearchers have discovered a new web-based attack tool which exploitsup to 14 browser vulnerabilities and installs malware on the user'ssystem..Symantecresearcher Liam O'Murchu said that 'Tornado' is commonly installed on aserver by a single 'administrator', who then offers accounts on theserver to other attackers.The attackers then... more
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