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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Superfast Berkshire

Businesses and residents across Berkshire have for some time been demanding better broadband services and studies have shown that Superfast Broadband (24Mbit/sec or faster) can give a real boost to local economies. Broadband providers are scheduled to roll out superfast broadband to 80% of premises in Berkshire before the end of 2015, but this will leave over 37,000 premises without this valuable utility.

The six Berkshire unitary authorities (Councils) and the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership(LEP) are working together to promote Superfast Berkshire, an exciting programme designed to bring fast broadband to everybody in the county.

The Government has promised £1.43million  to support Berkshire's Superfast Broadband programme. Superfast Berkshire will use this money and other funds to deliver superfast broadband to at least 90% of premises across the county and standard broadband (2MBit/sec or faster) to the remaining 10% of premises.

By registering your support for this programme you can demonstrate demand for broadband services to broadband providers and help shape Berkshire's Local Broadband Plan.

More info @ :- Superfast Berkshire - Superfast Berkshire

Users still slack about passwords: Trustwave • The Register

Trustwave's SpiderLabs has completed an analysis of the passwords dumped on the Internet in this month’s eHarmony breach, and reached the depressing conclusion that too few people really seem to care about password strength.
Having recovered 80 percent of the 1.5 million passwords in the dump file, the company says only 0.5 percent contained a “special character”, with 41 percent containing letters only and 57 percent a combination of letters and digits.

More info @ : Users still slack about passwords: Trustwave • The Register

Friday, June 22, 2012

Natwest and RBS urge customers to use their smartphones after bank systems failed - Techworld.com

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

New generation of bank Trojans can make invisible transfers - Techworld.com

Improved online bank security has driven cybercriminals to start using a type of Trojan tool that automates money theft from compromised accounts in ways that are invisible to account holders, Trend Micro has discovered.

More info @ : New generation of bank Trojans can make invisible transfers - Techworld.com

Monday, June 18, 2012

BBC News - Anti-virus software sucks up too much security cash claims study

Governments should focus more funds on policing the internet and less on anti-virus software, according to new research.
Computer scientists at the University of Cambridge carried out the cybercrime study after being approached by the UK's Ministry of Defence.

More info @ : BBC News - Anti-virus software sucks up too much security cash claims study

Monday, June 11, 2012

Last FM tells users to change passwords after suspected hack - Techworld.com

Last FM has asked its users to change their account passwords after becoming the latest high-profile firm to own up to the possibility of a security breach.
The company didn’t explain why it believed a breach to have occurred but the tone of apologetic urgency was unmistakable.
“We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online,” said a notice on Last FM’s site posted late on 7 June.

More info @ :- Last FM tells users to change passwords after suspected hack - Techworld.com

Thursday, June 07, 2012

eHarmony dating site joins LinkedIn in confirming password breach - Techworld.com

The online dating site eHarmony confirmed late Wednesday that passwords for its members were exposed in a breach, a second major compromise following LinkedIn's password exposure.

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'LeakedIn' checks for compromised LinkedIn passwords - Techworld.com

A New York-based web developer and his colleagues have built a web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password hash is among 6.5 million released on a Russian hacker forum.

More info @ :- 'LeakedIn' checks for compromised LinkedIn passwords - Techworld.com

Friday, June 01, 2012

Windows 8 Release Preview

Windows 8 Release Preview: It's Windows reimagined and reinvented from a solid core of Windows 7 speed and reliability. It's an all-new touch interface. It's a new Windows for new devices. And it's easy to try now—whether you're installing it for the first time, or moving from Windows 8 Consumer Preview.