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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Verizon Tactfully Reduced its Prices on Unlimited Wireless Plan
Verizon, the popular wireless network service has announced that the company is going to reduce the prices of its unlimited wireless plans. It seems to be very good news for all Verizon subscribers but other major wireless service providers are banged by Verizon wireless price announcement because they need to battle against this price war of Verizon in ordered to bring their networks alive.
Verizon wireless plan prices may remain same or that may reduce bit lesser for unlimited usage and the reduction prices on unlimited wireless plan will reflect from Monday onwards. Current customers no need to worry about their current contracts. If they want to stay with their current contracts they can remain stable and if they want to switch over then there will be a option to move towards the new plan that too without any hidden taxes.
Verizon Wireless plans & its old and new prices:
Verizon was charging $229.99 for family and talk plan so far and the company has reduced the plan to $149.99 and for nationalwide voice (unlimited) plan it was charging $99.99 so far and after the changes in wireless plan that also reduced into $69.99.
Similarly, voice plan for family (unlimited of course) costs $119.99 that came down from $199.99 and nationalwide talk and text unlimited plan costs $89.99 from $199.99.
Verizon tactically set these reduction prices on its unlimited wireless plans by hoping that the lower price will poach great usage of data-centric. Verizon’s this reduction price may bring revolution in wireless field. Decreasing the voice prices and increasing the pay of data is a new trend in wireless world.
There is no wonder if other wireless providers also follow this new trend. If they follow this trend then the charges of voice will vanish away and usage of data will increase.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Microsoft Warns of IE Zero-day Used in Google Attack
A critical zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer was exploited as part of the attack on Google and other companies, according to both Microsoft and McAfee.
The flaw allows for a Web-based attack against IE 6 SP 1 on Windows 2000, along with IE 7 and 8 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to Microsoft's security advisory, the company has only seen active attacks against IE 6 so far.
Those attacks were part of the campaign against Google, Adobe and other major companies that sought to break into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. In response, Google has threatened to stop censoring search results on its Google.cn site, or to shut it down entirely.
The invalid pointer reference flaw allows for remote code execution, according to Microsoft, which means that viewing a malicious Web site could allow an attacker to execute any command on a vulerable computer. Typically that would mean installing a Trojan or other malicious software. According to the bulletin, IE's Protected Mode on Vista and later versions of Windows mitigates the threat, which could also be leveraged by a banner ad.
Setting IE's Internet zone security to high will protect against the threat, according to Microsoft, as of course would using an alternate Web browser. Redmond says it may release an out-of-band patch for this threat outside of the normal monthly patch cyle.
Also, while antivirus maker McAfee warns that "there very well may be other attack vectors that are not known to us at this time," the company says that its investigations into the attacks "have not shown a vulnerability in Adobe Reader being a factor in these attacks." According to McAfee's analysis, the malware that hit the IE flaw opens a back door on victim PCs, which allowed the attackers to take complete control. (Note: the link provided by McAfee for its post is not currently responding.)
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The flaw allows for a Web-based attack against IE 6 SP 1 on Windows 2000, along with IE 7 and 8 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to Microsoft's security advisory, the company has only seen active attacks against IE 6 so far.
Those attacks were part of the campaign against Google, Adobe and other major companies that sought to break into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. In response, Google has threatened to stop censoring search results on its Google.cn site, or to shut it down entirely.
The invalid pointer reference flaw allows for remote code execution, according to Microsoft, which means that viewing a malicious Web site could allow an attacker to execute any command on a vulerable computer. Typically that would mean installing a Trojan or other malicious software. According to the bulletin, IE's Protected Mode on Vista and later versions of Windows mitigates the threat, which could also be leveraged by a banner ad.
Setting IE's Internet zone security to high will protect against the threat, according to Microsoft, as of course would using an alternate Web browser. Redmond says it may release an out-of-band patch for this threat outside of the normal monthly patch cyle.
Also, while antivirus maker McAfee warns that "there very well may be other attack vectors that are not known to us at this time," the company says that its investigations into the attacks "have not shown a vulnerability in Adobe Reader being a factor in these attacks." According to McAfee's analysis, the malware that hit the IE flaw opens a back door on victim PCs, which allowed the attackers to take complete control. (Note: the link provided by McAfee for its post is not currently responding.)
* See more like this:
* microsoft,
* google,
* internet explorer,
* browser bugs,
* online security,
* e-mail security,
* trojan horses
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