German Cyber Criminals Convicted

Sophos, an Internet security software developer, reports that a German court has convicted two men for infecting 100,000 computers with a Trojan horse virus. The virus was designed to make the infected computers dial 0190 numbers to contact a pornographic website, according to Sophos.

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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Updated

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Microsoft announces on its Mac product page, mactopia, that Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac has been updated to 11.3.2. The updater packed in .dmg disc image is available in eight languages, and the file size is 13.7 Mb. According to mactopia, this update contains several improvements only for PowerPoint and Entourage, and not a lot of detail is revealed.

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Secure FTP (FTP over SSH2)

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Back in the mid-1990s, Fetch was a hot, popular freeware title. It was developed by Dartmouth College. Just for your information, if you go to Dartmourth College, iMacs are everywhere. Anyway, site security has become a very important issue. If you are a webmaster, it’s no longer a good idea to upload files with FTP, which sends account information in a mere text form and then exchange unencrypted data between the user and the server. Secure FTP is more reliable, which webmasters should all use. However, not all web hosting companies support Secure FTP.

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