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		<title>UK to turn hackers into cyber security &#8216;top guns&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - A series of online competitions are being planned in Britain with the objective of converting would be computer hackers into cyber security "top guns".

Competition organizers said that they are hoping to emulate a similar scheme that is on in the United States.
According to The Times, the US Cyber Challenge was launched earlier this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/uk-to-turn-hackers-into-cyber-security-top-guns/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft to release full version of free Security Essentials antivirus software for PCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft to release free antivirus PC software
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting on Tuesday.

Microsoft Security Essentials, as the free antivirus software is called, has been available in a beta test version since June.
The software updates daily to stay current with the latest malicious programs, which can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-to-release-full-version-of-free-security-essentials-antivirus-software-for-pcs/</link>
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		<title>Scientists develop new language to improve home computer security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes.

Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.
An attack can wreak havoc on individuals and small businesses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/scientists-develop-new-language-to-improve-home-computer-security/</link>
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		<title>Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Vs Norton Internet Security 2009: Comparitive Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the networks on web expanding, Internet Security has grown into a prime concern. Internet Security tools are designed to protect computer's internet account and files from intrusion by unknown entities. For businesses as well as individual users using internet face security threats from  virus, malware, spyware, phishing, spams and such other infections. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/kaspersky-internet-security-2009-vs-norton-internet-security-2009-comparitive-review/</link>
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		<title>Explore A Journalists Life 24/7 Live on Camera, Can you identify him?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you could see what a journalist (the guy with the camera) does all day (from his point of view), covering important events like the Presidents speech to mundane tasks like watching a beautiful skyline to waiting for someone or something special (Ted Kennedy related?). You can hear their idle chatter, name dropping their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/explore-a-journalists-life-247-live-on-camera-can-you-identify-him/</link>
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		<title>Download System Mechanic 9 for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latest version of Iolo PC maintenance and tune-up suite – System Mechanic 9 for Windows is out. System Mechanic 9 is a software utility that enables faster and efficient tune-up of technologies. System Mechanics 9 has been designed to clean up, organize, and speed up Windows system to offer maximum PC performance. Iolo System Mechanic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/download-system-mechanic-9-free/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Anti-Virus for Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 final release is just round the corner and you must be panicking over the best anti-virus software that can optimize the security of the latest OS. Well, it's overtly apprehended that although, Windows 7 is smarter than its predecessor, it might be less secured than Vista, compromising with the security.
Microsoft's indigenous free anti-malware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-anti-virus-for-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Releases Patch To Fix ActiveX, Media File Flaws And More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released nine patches to fix 19 security vulnerabilities affecting multiple Windows systems. The patches would address multiple critical ActiveX and Windows Media File loop holes that could invite hackers malicious attacks. The patches were know to be affecting multiple Windows systems including XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008. The nine patches five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-releases-patch-to-fix-activex-media-file-flaws-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Vanish: Digital data Self-destruction Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You must have heard of spy paper, the self-destructive paper in which the content vanishes after a certain time. For more there are self destructive message services that are sand lost to the surf once read.  The same idea works for the web world. Vanish is a researched system designed that allows the users control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/vanish-digital-data-self-destruction/</link>
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		<title>Hacker attacks that caused Twitter outage show vulnerability of social networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web
NEW YORK —The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.

"It told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hacker-attacks-that-caused-twitter-outage-show-vulnerability-of-social-networks/</link>
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		<title>Another hacking attempt on Twitter: What, when, how!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
What?
The attacks may have been related to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hacker-attack-clamps-down-twitter-facebook-experiences-intermittent-problems/</link>
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		<title>PC antispyware 2010 removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC antispyware 2010 is a rogue of a software program. Upon getting many complaints about it from people and their requests to troubleshoot the removal technique, we finally got our hands on this program and oh boy, it was some experience. It is the latest counterfeit anti-spyware software that creates hassles for computer users around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pc-antispyware-2010-removal/</link>
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		<title>McAfee&#8217;s 2Q financial performance tops analyst views amid rising demand for computer security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McAfee 2Q profit slides 40 pct, tops analyst views
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — McAfee Inc.'s second-quarter financial performance exceeded analyst expectations amid rising demand for the software maker's computer security products.

The Santa Clara-based company said Thursday that it earned $28.7 million, or 18 cents per share, for the three months ended in June. That was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mcafees-2q-financial-performance-tops-analyst-views-amid-rising-demand-for-computer-security/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Excellent Password Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you having sleepless nights looking to mange your passwords? There are a good number of people who suffer from extreme confusion and fear of the unknown, when it comes to remembering passwords. Over the time you pile up scores of login and password for every account you sign into. Eventually, it becomes a paranoia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-excellent-password-managers/</link>
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		<title>ESPN star Erin Andrews&#8217; naked video being used by hackers to attack PC&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - A computer security website has issued a warning that hackers are misusing a video that has naked shots of glamorous ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews as a lure to attack PC's.

The illegally taped peephole video, showing Andrews as she disrobes, gets viewers and web surfers to download dangerous malware to their computers, reports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/espn-star-erin-andrews-naked-video-being-used-by-hackers-to-attack-pcs/</link>
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		<title>How to Download Norton Internet Security 2010 Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a week after releasing the beta test version of Norton AntiVirus 2010, Symantec has come up with the Internet Security 2010 Beta. Syamantec's revamped Norton Internet Security 2010 provides a faster and more effective security solution. The latest release offers superior performance with its newly imbibed Norton Safe Web that encloses a new antispam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-download-norton-internet-security-2010-free/</link>
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		<title>Home Antivirus 2010 Removal Technique (Spyware)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of those victimized by Home Antivirus 2010? Well, do you now what it is? To put it straight, Home Antivirus 2010 is a classical rogue anti-spywares that in the disguise of protecting a PC, tricks the unsuspecting user into downloading its registered version. It tricks the users to buy the fake software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/home-antivirus-2010-removal-technique-spyware/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Free Windows Firewall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably you know it needs a firewall program to use the Internet safely. Firewall not only protects you against attacks from the Internet, it also informs you when programs installed on your computer are trying to phone home and enable you to prevent hackers  from accessing your system. Now Windows firewall is unable to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-free-windows-firewall/</link>
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		<title>Free Norton Antivirus 2010 Download Link</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having addressed most of performance issues in the 2009 edition, Symantec has released the beta test version of Norton AntiVirus 2010. Norton is known to offer proactive protection against viruses, Trojans and worms. The 2010 version of Norton Antivirus has been designed to provide superior performance, enhanced security and effective tools for maintaining performance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-norton-antivirus-2010-download-link/</link>
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		<title>Cyber criminals may have created first &#8216;zombie&#8217; cellphone network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Experts have warned that hackers may have created a network of "zombie" cellphones, similar to a network of virus-infected personal computers, to send spam or carry out cyber attacks.

'Botnets' is the term that computer scientists use for such networks of computers.
While millons of machines worldwide are said to be secretly running botnet software, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cyber-criminals-may-have-created-first-zombie-cellphone-network/</link>
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		<title>7 South Korean web sites facing renewed cyber attacks, official says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Official: S. Korea web sites under renewed attack
SEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT, 5:30 a.m. EDT ) Thursday.
He said one of the affected sites belongs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/7-south-korean-web-sites-facing-renewed-cyber-attacks-official-says/</link>
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		<title>7 SKorean Web sites facing renewed cyber attacks, official says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Official: 7 SKorean Web sites under renewed attack
SEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT, 5:30 a.m. EDT ) Thursday.
He said one of the affected sites belongs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/7-skorean-web-sites-facing-renewed-cyber-attacks-official-says/</link>
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		<title>If you are using IE, A hacker can take control of your machine: Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet. The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.
It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims' machines. The victims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-warns-of-serious-security-hole-affecting-internet-explorer-users/</link>
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		<title>Download Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Free Trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading developer of anti-virus software and Internet Security software solution, Kaspersky Lab has released its latest version of popular security application Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. All the major components of implemented in the earlier version of the product has been upgraded including the firewall, heuristic analyzer, parental control module and the anti-spam module. The new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/download-kaspersky-internet-security-2010-free-trial/</link>
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		<title>China Web controversy highlights growing role of public opinion in official decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China Web controversy highlights public role
BEIJING — Beijing's retreat on its latest Internet-censorship effort highlights the rise of China's increasingly tech-savvy, vocal public as a factor in the authoritarian government's decisions.

China gave in late Tuesday to complaints by Web users, manufacturers and foreign governments and postponed a plan to require producers to supply a government-endorsed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/china-web-controversy-highlights-growing-role-of-public-opinion-in-official-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Online Backup vs Harddisk Backup Software - A detailed discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study from Google exposes that 8% of computer hard drives are most likely to fail within two years of operation. Well, that implies every twelve computer hard drive would crash within first 24 months of operation. Apart from failure you might loose files if your laptop or PC is stolen, or you permanently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/online-backup-versus-harddisk-backup-software-a-detailed-discussion/</link>
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		<title>PC makers race to comply with China Web filter order as Washington presses for repeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC makers race to comply with China's Web filter
BEIJING — Days before a deadline abruptly imposed by China, computer makers are scrambling to comply with an order to supply Web-filtering software with PCs amid concerns about what it might do to their reputations.

Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Inc. and Taiwan's Acer Inc. — the top three global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pc-makers-race-to-comply-with-china-web-filter-order-as-washington-presses-for-repeal/</link>
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		<title>China accuses Google of spreading pornography; Washington calls on Beijing to scrap Web filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China accuses Google of spreading pornography
BEIJING — China accused Google Inc. on Thursday of spreading pornography after Chinese users were unable to connect to the search giant's Web site, while Washington called on Beijing to scrap its order for personal computers to be equipped with Internet-filtering software.

"We have found that the English version of google.com [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/china-accuses-google-of-spreading-pornography-washington-calls-on-beijing-to-scrap-web-filter/</link>
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		<title>US calls on China to revoke Web filter order as possible trade violation, security risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US calls on China to revoke Web filter order
BEIJING — Washington is calling on Beijing to revoke an order to personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software with every PC, adding to an array of disputes between the major trading partners.

In a letter to Chinese officials, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Trade Representative Ron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-calls-on-china-to-revoke-web-filter-order-as-possible-trade-violation-security-risk/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Linux Backup and Recovery software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you are running an organization with mission-critical Linux servers in one location and with IT experts. Imagine a situation, if your server goes down. What would be the impact on your business. For worse if you lack a backup, you are thrown for loop without a notice. To handle such gloom and doom you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-linux-backup-and-recovery-software/</link>
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		<title>Gordon Brown to appoint Britain&#8217;s first cyber security chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - The British Prime Minister is set to announce the appointment of the nation's first cyber security chief who will be responsible to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage.

Brown's decision comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and business are vulnerable to online attacks from hostile countries and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gordon-brown-to-appoint-britains-first-cyber-security-chief/</link>
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		<title>Computer security industry grows 18.6 percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - While most business sectors were affected by the slowdown last year, the anti-virus and computer security industry grew 18.6 percent totalling $13.5 billion in revenues, IT market researcher and consultancy Gartner said Monday. According to a report by Gartner, there is an increasing demand for appliance-based products, particularly within certain segments such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/computer-security-industry-grows-186-percent/</link>
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		<title>China Censors Google Porn links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Bing's fiasco over pornographic videos its ace search engine Google's turn to face the wrath. Chinese Internet sentinel codenamed the Chinese-language version of Google was accused for disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.  The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has already beefed Goolge about the pornographic and vulgar links on its search engine for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/11150/</link>
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		<title>Beta test of Microsoft&#8217;s free computer security software set to debut next week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft readies free PC security software
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it plans to release a beta test of its free computer security program next week and is on track to launch a finished product in the fall.

The program, Microsoft Security Essentials, is designed to find and kill malicious software that can steal passwords and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/beta-test-of-microsofts-free-computer-security-software-set-to-debut-next-week/</link>
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		<title>Apple releases Mac patch for major java vulnerability, fixes 32 issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the usual beliefs that my Mac is fully secure, we have reported again and again that it isn't exactly the same unless you are one of those self -assured types with eyes closed. The reason Mac community hasn't been affected is because of the strange aloofness of Black Hat groupies to exploit its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-releases-mac-patch-for-major-java-vulnerability-fixes-32-issues/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Windows Live Messenger Virus Removal Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many users worldwide who feel helpless before malicious attackers and hackers attacking Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger. Once your MSN messenger is infected by virus, Trojan, worm, keyloggers, bots and other malicious threats your privacy and confidential details such as chat history or login and password may be compromised. It will not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-live-messenger-software-fix/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Free Anti-Virus &#8216;Morro&#8217; to be introduced soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Windows is the most loved OSvirus affected OS in the world. World's largest software producer is all set to rage a war against viruses with the introduction of its long-awaited free anti-virus service. On the market-front the product could be a direct offensive against the anti-virus giants Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc. Microsoft begins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-free-anti-virus-morro-to-be-introduced-soon/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Will Verify to Eliminate Fake Celebrity Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is planning to track the fake accounts by implementing a verification system that will ensure that famous people are who they say they are. This had to come after Barack Obama and other celebrities' accounts were faked unless people complained about them personally. So for a real life interaction with celebrities that Twitter offer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/twitter-will-verify-to-eliminate-fake-celebrity-accounts/</link>
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		<title>Obama turns to &#8216;cyber czar&#8217; to protect computer security in many areas, including defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama setting up better security for computers
WASHINGTON — America has for too long failed to adequately protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to take on the job.

Surrounded by a host of government officials, aides and corporate executives, Obama said this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/obama-turns-to-cyber-czar-to-protect-computer-security-in-many-areas-including-defense/</link>
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		<title>After review of computer security, Obama is calling for &#8216;cyber czar&#8217; and more awareness of threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama calling for better security for computers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling digital security a top priority, whether it's guarding the computer systems that keep the lights on in the city and direct airliners to the right runway or those protecting customers who pay their bills online. To oversee an enhanced security system for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/after-review-of-computer-security-obama-calling-for-cyber-czar-and-more-awareness-of-threat/</link>
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