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Risk Management Kit
Monitor and control project risks.
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Anti Hacker 1
Protect your PC against hackers with a powerful rootkit detector.
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Study links cell phones, tumors
October 14, 2004
Swedish research institute finds that 10 or more years of cell phone use may increase the risk of acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous tumor.
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Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
March 4, 2008
ATMs that rely on desktop PC technology--and that's a lot of them--are at risk from worms, key loggers, and denial-of-service attacks.
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Google admits Desktop security risk
February 20, 2006
Google Desktop 3 Beta contains a security risk for businesses, says Gartner, and Google agrees.
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QuickTime bugs open door to attack
January 11, 2006
Several security flaws in Apple Computer's media player could put computers running Windows and Mac OS X at risk of hijack.
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Apple flaws put both Macs and PCs at risk
May 12, 2006
Patches arrive for more than 40 holes affecting QuickTime, used by Apple and Windows systems, and Mac OS X.
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FedEx Kinko's payment card cracked
March 2, 2006
Anyone with some extra hardware and technical know-how could add value to the card, but FedEx says there's no risk.
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Lawyer: Open-source risks overblown
November 2, 2005
Prominent open-source software attorney says the GPL already minimizes many risks of using free and open-source software.
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PC 'overclockers' risk danger for faster machines
March 1, 2001
Although their tinkering nullifies warranties and can even do PCs harm, people who make a hobby of pushing processors past their limits are willing to take the risks.
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Microsoft: BitLocker key to safe disk disposal
April 26, 2006
Says businesses using Vista with its hard drive encryption technology will have easy, safe way to dispose hard disks.
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Surfing a bigger risk than spam to company networks
September 15, 2006
Businesses are more likely to pick up a virus via employee Web surfing than from e-mail attachments, study says.
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SAP and on-demand: 'The switch is tougher'
May 19, 2006
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
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FTC spotlights proposals on P2P risks
December 8, 2004
Trade regulators say file-swapping companies are starting to regulate themselves on consumer issues.
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Telecommuters: Beware the tax man
November 2, 2005
Telecommuters employed by a company outside their home state may be at risk of having to pay extra taxes unless Congress adopts a bill protecting them.
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Adobe fixes PDF reader flaws
July 12, 2006
If left unpatched, vulnerabilities in Adobe Systems' PDF reader software could put Windows, Mac users at risk of cyberattack.
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Sun's Solaris 10 at risk of zero-day exploit
February 13, 2007
Security bugs in Sun Microsystems' telnet service could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to a system.
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Identity theft risk greatest in major cities
February 14, 2007
Study lists New York, Detroit and Los Angeles as the cities with the highest occurrence of identity fraud.
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Hackers probe Outlook Express flaw
June 24, 2005
Exploit published to Web aims at vulnerability in Microsoft newsgroup reader that could give attacker complete control over a PC.
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A call for rational discourse on identity theft
December 6, 2007
ID Analytics' Thomas Oscherwitz writes that while ID theft losses are dropping, the debate has become ever more shrill.
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