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Zeus for Android steals one-time banking passwords

Researchers have discovered a new variant of the insidious Zeus trojan designed to run on Google Android smartphones, but the threat is minimal in the United States. more

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McAfee Report Identifies New Attacks on Mobile Devices

­Anti-virus software vendor, McAfee says that there is a steady growth of threats to mobile platforms. The number of pieces of new mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009. Their latest industry report also uncovered 20 million new pieces of malware in 2010, equating to nearly 55,000 new malware threats every day. Of the almost 55 million total pieces of malware McAfee Labs has identified, 36 percent was created in 2010. Concurrently, spam accounted for 80 percent of total email traffic in Q4 2010, the lowest point since the first quarter of 2007.  more

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Cybercriminals Shifting Focus From Computers to Mobile Phones

­In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report. The report also finds that 2010 was the first year in the history of the Internet that spam volume decreased, that cybercriminals are investing heavily in "money muling," and that users continue to fall prey to myriad forms of trust exploitation.  more

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Poor Performance on the ipad Threatens Revenue for a Third of Leading Websites

­Research conducted by zeus Technology claims that one-third of the world's most visited sites take more than a second to load on an iPad. With the average page load time taking 0.86 seconds, the research comes off the back of findings from Amazon.com that every 100ms of latency in page delivery time resulted in a 1% drop in sales.  more

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Anywhere IT to Drive $4 Trillion Worldwide Market by 2016

Yankee Group has today published two new Framework Reports that reveal that the information communications and technology (ICT) marketplace is on the verge of its most significant transformation yet and is poised to hit the $4 trillion mark worldwide by 2016. This transformation is about the shift of IT complexity into the network cloud, making it possible for the corporate experience to more closely reflect the consumer experience.  more

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Dell Warning Hints at Technology Giants' Vulnerabilities

Dell's warning Tuesday is the latest indication that overseas spending on information technology is slowing - right at the time when the U.S. market is expected to feel increased pressure from the turmoil on Wall Street.  more

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NEC's Mobile Client Extends Unified Communications to Mobile Devices

NEC Unified Solutions is releasing a set of applications that extends desktop telephony and messaging functionality to mobile devices and incorporates wireless LAN (WLAN) and cellular into a customized mobile format.  more

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