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Unified Services uses CallFire to Double Lead Generation Efficiency Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2012 Dialing all day for sales calls can be quite the onerous task. Lead follow up can often seem like panning for gold. It often can take hours before you have a ‘Eureka!’ moment. CallFire has combed through the use cases of its more than 50 thousand users to create a lead generation based on one of the company's success stories. Here is an excerpt from the case study: Larry...

New tool from Total Networx stops cybercriminals from bypassing online security Burnsville, MN (PRWEB) December 27, 2012 Even though financial institutions have invested significant time and resources into establishing a secure online banking environment, cybercriminals have found a way to bypass that security by exploiting the more vulnerable computers of account holders. The threat is so serious that corporate account takeover– a type of business identity theft in which...

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, has published its Virus Yearbook for 2012, outlining its picks for the most unique viruses of the past year. Rather than a ranking of the most widespread viruses, or those that have caused most infections, these viruses are ones that deserve mention for standing out from the more than 24 million new strains of malware that emerged. Police virus: This...

Virus Removal Experts at OnlineVirusRepair.com express concern about new year surpassing prior years for severe computer virus and spyware activity. San Luis Obispo, CA (PRWEB) December 26, 2012 The previous year has been nothing short of an eruption of new viruses and spyware. Millions of people each year are attacked by all different sorts of viruses and malicious software, some of which aren’t even aware that their computer is infected. 2012 presented many new types of infections,...

Precept Partners notes increased sophistication of phishing and emerging ‘ransomware’ attacks; advise clients of need to step up internal security measures and staff training to protect company assets Buchanan, Michigan (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 The Internet consultants at Precept Partners have alerted their clients to the need to review internal security procedures in view of increasingly sophisticated phishing methods and emerging ‘ransomware’ attacks. The company’s manager,...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ESET, the global leader in proactive digital protection with a 25 year track record of developing award-winning technology, has published its annual review of the past year's threat trends and compiled predictions for 2013. According to the new report, the 2013 threatscape will see major growth of mobile malware and its variants, increased malware propagation via websites and the continued rise of botnets and attacks on the cloud resulting...

OnlineVirusRepair.com reports a drastic increase in virus and spyware activity for 2012, along with the popular fake antivirus scam. San Luis Obispo, CA (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 Computers are an essential part of our lives. They provide us an endless amount of useful information, communication, and simplicity. When computers stop functioning properly, it can create a huge headache and greatly impact productivity. OnlineVirusRepair.com, an online virus removal company based in San Luis...

eAcceleration® Corp., makers of StopSign® Internet Security software, and GFI Software™, have entered into a licensing agreement to further enhance the StopSign web protection software suite using the VIPRE® Client SDK. Poulsbo, WA (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 eAcceleration® Corp., makers of StopSign® Internet Security software, and GFI Software™, have entered into a licensing agreement to further enhance the StopSign web protection software suite using the...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online banking customers are at risk from the latest malicious software uncovered by researchers at ESET, the global leader in proactive digital protection with a 25 year track record of developing award-winning technology. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121109/SF09648LOGO) Analysis of a malicious Apache module, detected by ESET as Linux/Chapro.A, found that the world's most widely used web server, Apache, is being used to...

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Software vulnerabilities will be the main target of cyber-criminals next year, according to a list of security trends that will dominate in 2013, by PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware laboratory. "It is undoubtedly the preferred method of infection for compromising systems transparently, used by both cyber-criminals and intelligence agencies in countries around the world," said Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. In...