Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:48 am

Infected PC’s: Google sends warning message

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Users of Windows machines should be on the watch for emails from Google: The Internet search and cloud computing company started alerting hundreds of thousands Google Search users that their machine might have been infected by malware. Google says that it can detect certain types of malware based on network traffic flow [...]

Email attacks: It's personal now

San Jose (ip-192.com): Cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of personalized attacks with a greater financial impact on targeted organizations, a new security report from Cisco finds. The targeted attacks focus on intellectual property theft by deploying malware directed at a specific user or group of [...]

NOAA: Agency adapts cloud technology

Silver Spring (ip-192.com): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce, is moving into the clouds. The Silver Spring, Maryland, based agency awarded an $11.5 million, three-year contract to Earth Resources Technologies, Inc. for cloud-based unified messaging services. The NOAA-wide transition will modernize e-mail and calendar [...]

Open-Xchange: Microsoft Exchange replacement?

Nuremberg (ip-192.com): Open-Xchange, an alternative to Microsoft Exchange, is gaining ground. Toronto based Cirrus Tech Ltd. and Lunarpages, a web hosting branch of Add2Net, LLC based in Anaheim, said that they will make the e-mail and groupware software available to their clients. The open source collaboration software is based on Open-Xchange Server and part of [...]