Archives for February 2007
British Broadband Slower Than Promised
The average UK broadband speed is 2.03Mbps, according to research from independent broadband information site thinkbroadband.com. Similar figures taken from 2003 showed an average download speed of just under 500Kbps.
But speeds are often slower than broadband users expect, given that many providers promise speeds of ‘up to’ 8Mbps - which can vary based on time […]
Second Google Desktop Vulnerability Reported
Google’s PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning.
Anti-DNS pinning is an emerging area of security research, understood by just a handful of researchers, said Jeremiah Grossman, chief technical officer at WhiteHat Security. The variation of this attack described by Hansen manipulates the way […]
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Windows Defender spyware-blocking under fire
In tests sponsored by anti-spyware vendor PC Tools, and carried out by independent testing facility Enex Testlabs, Microsoft??™s Windows Defender blocked less than half (46 per cent) of current spyware threats, scoring well below third party anti-spyware providers.
According to the aggregate Enex test results for the whole of 2006, Microsoft??™s Windows Defender quick scan was […]