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AMSTERDAM, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG) today announced it will report its first quarter 2012 financial results for the period ended March 31, 2012 following the close of market on Thursday, May 10, 2012. On that day, management will hold a conference call and webcast at 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT to review and discuss the Company's results. What: AVG Technologies N.V. First Quarter 2012 Financial Results Conference Call...
SALZBURG, Austria, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Emsisoft has been keeping track of a current wave of attacks on Windows Servers - many affected companies and persons from all over the world have come to Emsisoft asking for help. The attacks are aimed at Windows Servers running publicly accessible Remote Desktop and Terminal Services. They are infiltrated via dictionary based brute-force attacks on several common user names. Especially servers operated by smaller or one man...
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- planetRE, the nation's leading technology cloud vendor for online real estate, launched new patent pending features under planetRE Socialite(TM) CRM platform. The new feature set will allow sales professionals to synch , unify their contacts and calendars across one or more social and email networks like Facebook®, Linkedin®, Plaxo®, Google+®,Twitter®, Gmail®, Outlook® etc. It will also triangulate profiles and communicate...
BROOMFIELD, Colo., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using a computer without security is riskier than leaving your home or car unlocked, according to a new study from Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service. In a survey of 1,637 Internet users aged 18 and older, Webroot asked respondents to gauge the perceived threat level of dangerous offline behaviors, such as driving without a seatbelt or automobile insurance, versus risky online behaviors like sharing an...
The controversy surrounding employers or universities asking for Facebook passwords or similar content has drawn the attention of the social network, civil rights groups, members of the US Senate, and even union officials overseas, according to press releases and various media reports published this week. The practice was brought to light thanks to an article by Manuel Valdes and Shannon Mcfarland of the Associated Press (AP), which told the story of a New York statistician who was asked...
CHICAGO, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeper Security, Inc. has seen incredible growth as their password security application, Keeper hit record sales this weekend. Keeper has been downloaded over 6 million times, receiving an overwhelming number of 5-Star user reviews in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad. Keeper provides a secure, simple way to store and access passwords and private information - anywhere, anytime. Keeper's military-grade encryption secures and...
Hackers claim they have stolen the information of over 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground. A hacker group called The Consortium said it has stolen user names, email addresses, and passwords, as well as numbers and security codes for 40,000 credit cards. The group posted some of the data it stole on the web and said security on the site was full of holes that "made it too enticing to resist" stealing the data. "This company has security, that if we didn't know it was a...
CUPERTINO, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, today announced DirectPass, a new password management solution. Designed to organize and manage passwords, DirectPass provides consumers with a fast and efficient way to manage their online activities, while offering extra security measures to keep their credentials safe. Trend Micro DirectPass uses cloud technology to sync online credentials across...
HAMBURG, Germany, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DERMALOG Identification Systems in Hamburg becomes the first manufacturer to provide middleware for its automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS). The middleware is flexible and can be integrated into any software application to enable fingerprint logins - making usernames and passwords a thing of the past. The new Software Developer Suite will be presented at this year's CeBIT. It's the same procedure at every...
A new study from an international online security firm has discovered that, despite numerous warnings against the practice, the most popular computer password for business men and women continues to be "Password" or some variation thereof. As part of their Global Security Report for 2012, Chicago-based Trustwave studied approximately 2.5 million passwords and discovered that 5% contained some form of the word "password," Slashgear's Mark Raby reported on Saturday. For systems that...
