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Facebook - the world's most active social media website, boasting some 1.4 billion registered users, is no stranger to viral attacks that spread quickly. Over the weekend,  researchers started noticing an uptick in tag spam that was delivering malware to users. The campaign was first noticed on Saturday by researchers at Bitdefender, an anti-Virus firm in Bucharest, Romania. Initially, the three-day campaign was said to have infected just over 5,000 users. However, earlier this week, security researcher, Mohammad Reza Faghani, reported that the number had increased to 110,000 users. The campaign hinges on videos posted on a person's timeline, which tags a number of friends. The videos themselves look as if they are legitimate, and use the goo.gl URL shortening service to mask their true destination. While more experienced, security savvy users would be immediately suspicious; most of the victims followed their gut and trusted the alleged link to Google. "Users who click t...

In October, we got our hands on Kingston's HyperX Cloud Pro Gaming Headset. At the time it was marked down from $149.99 to $79.99. Even without the price drop as incentive, the audio  quality was excellent, and the 3.5mm connections made it easy to plug and play on any smartphone, PC, laptop or game console. Now, HyperX has come out with its successor, the Cloud II. It won't be available until Feb. 9, but I got the chance to play with it before its release. If the original Cloud was any indication of success, the Cloud II seems to deliver the same great audio performance alongside a few new features. The headset in general looks identical to the original Cloud headset. The aluminum frame, leather headband, plastic cover for the drivers and leather ear cups are all black. Even the additional velour ear cups are still included in the box, along with the small bag to house your headset and wires. The microphone jack is still located under the left ear, and it's still sealed w...

Among the many security options that concerned users can choose from, many of which are free to download, the one from the Japan-based #TrendMicro  has  a lot to deal with due to their numerous rivals like Avira, AVG,  #Kaspersky , F-Secure,  #McAfee ,  #Symantec , and so on. Among the premium security software suites available right now, the Trend Micro Titanium does do its best to deliver just about everything that is needed from #security   #software . Upon installation, Trend Micro  #Titanium  welcomes users to its clean and concise interface that does little to nothing that confuses most users. Its main console shows the current security threat quite clearly, and it is designed to do real-time scan while letting users choose to do so manually as well. The scans can range from a quick scan to a thorough one or a custom scan to suit the situation. As with most antivirus software these days, Trend Micro Titanium combines traditional signature-b...

The Texas Tech IT Division released an IT alert Thursday for reports of computer malware that is specifically designed to steal people's banking credentials.  The IT a lert said, “The Texas Department of Information Resources has been monitoring new infections of the 'DYRE Banking Trojan' on some state computers.” The alert also said, “The infections are spread through malicious emails, containing subjects such as 'RBS morning commentary' or 'Voice Message,' which encourage users to click a link to read a commentary or to listen to a voice message.” The links within the emails allow the placement of malware on the victim's computer. TTU IT said additional email Subject lines include: “Wire transfer receive” “Medicines here” “Complaint against your company” “Payment Advice – advice Ref:[xxxxxx]/CHAPS credits” “Company repor” - (note the missing t in “report") “Wire transfer complete” “Important – New Outlook Settings” The advice given is to simply d...

Super Wi-Fi. The words sound pretty great together, don't they? Like a deity. Omnipotent. So powerful. So many possibilities. Two scientists from KIT (Karlsruhe Instit ute of Technology) in Germany have proposed a creation of just that, a Super Wi-Fi, from terrestrial broadcasting. Arnd Weber and Jens Elsner, authors of the article Beachfront Commons, propose to use bands below 2 GHz for free communication, instead of licensing them to large companies. UHF bands originally used for television are being used less and less. In 2008, the FCC auctioned licenses to use portions of the 700 MHz band, which is the spectrum just above the remaining TV broadcast channels. According to a 2012 New York Times Article, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint said they required more radio spectrums, citing necessity due to growing demand, and they sought FCC approval to buy more at auction. The frequencies they hope to buy are 470-698 MHz. A helpful comparison, which the American public has alrea...

Microsoft's Windows 10 event is just getting started, and it sounds like the company is eager to make it as easy and cheap as possible for those running older versions of Windo ws to upgrade. Terry Myerson just announced on stage that, for the first year after Windows 10 launches, any device running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows Phone 8.1 will be able to upgrade to the latest version of MIcrosoft's OS — for free. How exactly this program will work isn't clear just yet — it'll certainly be subject to some hardware requirements, particularly for older machines running Windows 7. But a simplified upgrade path will likely do a lot to help Windows 10 adoption — rather than dealing with a number of different versions of Windows and different upgrade costs, most consumers will simply take this free update and enjoy running Microsoft's latest. Beyond this, Myerson shared Microsoft's vision for Windows as a service, not just an operating system. A big part of that ...

New Delhi: A piece of news that many WhatsApp users have been eagerly waiting for quite some time is finally here. WhatsApp is now officially available on your Web brows er, a feature that many competing instant messaging services already have. © Provided by  #IBNLive  Though the WhatsApp roll out for desktop comes with a caveat - it is currently available only on Google Chrome browser. Though WhatsApp says it will add support for other browsers soon. "Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device - this means all of your  #messages  still live on your phone," WhatsApp said in a blog post. To connect your web browser to your WhatsApp client, go to web.whatsapp.com  in your Google Chrome browser. Scan the QR code with WhatsApp on your phone and the WhatsApp on your phone would be paired with the WhatsApp web client. Your phone will need to be connected to the Internet for the Web c...