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Nagios monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert technical staff of the problem, allowing them to begin remediation processes before outages affect business processes, end-users, or customers. Enhancements in version 3.2.2: * Patch to new_mini_epn to allow [...]
Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet’s latest threat report has found. The most prevalent malware variant during August was TotalSecurity W32/FakeAlert.LU!tr, a malicious program that masquerades as antivirus software in order to sell worthless licenses for non-existent malware. On its own [...]
UK businesses caught using unlicensed software have paid out £2 million ($3.1 million) in ‘settlements’ in the first six months of 2010, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) industry watchdog has announced. The figure for Europe and the Middle-East was £6.5 million, which comprised £4 million to correctly license software, and a further £2.5 million in [...]
VMware Inc., a maker of computer virtualization software, said Tuesday it has bought two smaller companies — Integrien and TriCipher. Financial terms were not disclosed. Integrien makes performance analytics software and TriCipher’s technology helps manage online logins and user authentications. VMware makes virtualization software that allows one computer to function as several, helping businesses cut [...]
After an absence of more than 15 years, AutoCAD is finally back on the Mac. Autodesk announced Tuesday the launch of AutoCAD for Mac, a new version of its popular design and engineering tool that will run natively on Mac OS X. AutoCAD for Mac will offer many of the features familiar to users of [...]
Long before the iPhone, the iPod was the device that helped transform Apple from computer company into a consumer electronics company. But today, the ubiquitous music player has become less relevant to the company that essentially owns that product category. Apple still sells three-fourths of all MP3 players sold, but multifunction gadgets like the iPhone [...]
Intel Corp. (INTC) agreed to buy the wireless unit of Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG (IFX.XE) for $1.4 billion, or EUR1.1 billion in cash, both companies said Monday in a joint release. With the deal, Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, significantly strengthens its position in an area in which it has had limited success previously. [...]
Personal computer software piracy, which is costing the software product industry in the country more than $2 billion in revenues annually, may go down by 2% in 2010. The reason being greater awareness and continued high sales of laptops which come with preloaded operating system (OS). According to industry body, Business Software Alliance (BSA), the [...]
The current version of Firefox will likely be the end of the road for people using PowerPC Macs. A final decision will be based on usage data that’s better than what Mozilla possesses right now, but technical difficulties raised by Firefox 4 improvements mean at a minimum that it’s a strong possibility only Intel-based Macs [...]
There are many dangers when it comes to having keylogger’s hack into your computer. It is, indeed, a cyber crime. That is, unless a company is using it to track the keystrokes on company computers. Because of the many dangers, it’s important to know how to find a keylogger scan with spyware removal software. Keyloggers [...]
