Thursday, June 18, 2015

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 6/19/2015

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Researchers uncover major security flaws in iOS and OS X that allow for rampant password theft

A group of security researchers have revealed zero-day vulnerabilities within iOS and OS X that allow an attacker to wreak havoc on Apple’s ecosystem.



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Nest launches first branded security camera, updates Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector

Google-owned Nest announced multiple new products during a media gathering earlier today in San Francisco including its first branded wireless home camera and a revised smoke and carbon monoxide detector.



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AT&T is about to get hit with a $100 million fine for throttling its customers

The Federal Communications Commission has been investigating AT&T’s supposed data throttling of its customers for years, and now its planning to slap the telecom with the single largest fine in FCC history. AT&T is being accused of purposely slowing down the network speed of certain users without properly informing them...


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Fairphone 2 is a different kind of modular smartphone

Most associate modular smartphones like Project Ara with literal modules for components like the CPU, camera and battery. Fairphone is taking a different approach to modular smartphones with its sophomore effort, the Fairphone 2.



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European court says news website is liable for anonymous, defamatory comments from readers

The European Court of Human rights in Strasbourg has set a dangerous legal precedent threatening freedom of speech and online publishing. In particular, a ruling issued this week says that Estonian news site Delfi may be held liable for anonymous and allegedly defamatory comments that readers post on its site.



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Raspberry launches enclosure for its popular mini PC

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an official enclosure for its popular mini PC. Given the foundation’s overwhelming success over the past several years, one can only wonder why it took this long for them to produce a chassis.



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Can DIMMDrive really speed up game load times? Here's what to expect

DIMMDrive provides a front-end between Steam and its games and an old school RAM drive, letting you toggle which ones you want loaded into memory. It’s been garnering very positive reviews on Steam. What kind of gains should you expect?


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Amazon launches new Kindle Paperwhite with 300 DPI display

Amazon has launched a new Kindle Paperwhite today with a new high-resolution E-Ink display that, at 300 DPI, is twice as sharp as its predecessor and equal to the more expensive Kindle Voyage.



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Senior management shakeup will see former Nokia boss Stephen Elop leave Microsoft

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a significant management shakeup that will see two senior leaders exit the company.



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This is AMD's dual-GPU Fiji graphics card

During the PC Gaming Show, which ran for a mammoth two and a half hours at E3 2015 last night, AMD CEO Lisa Su briefly appeared on stage to show off another Radeon graphics card that the company only briefly mentioned during the launch of their Fury line earlier in...


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Giveaway: Win this "Master Chief" edition Xbox One from the TechSpot Store

The Xbox One got a lot of buzz at E3 this year as the focus of Microsoft's keynote. If you don't already have one, here's your chance to get in on the action: you could win this special "Master Chief" edition Xbox One with 4 controllers, a Kinect, and 4...


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Nintendo leans on new Star Fox, Zelda games to anchor its E3 showing

With details of Nintendo’s next console firmly postponed until 2016, the gaming giant relied on its most popular franchises to anchor its E3 Digital Event.



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Microsoft releases newly polished Windows 10 Mobile preview build

Microsoft has released a new build of their Windows 10 Mobile preview, build 10136, which is focused on improving the experience through a series of subtle "fit and finish changes." Most of these improvements are fairly minor, though Microsoft does state that they've made many changes to the fonts, icons...


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Razer's new Mamba features 16,000 DPI laser sensor in wired and wireless configurations

Razer on Tuesday unveiled what it’s calling the world’s most advanced gaming mouse. Now in its third iteration, the 2015 Razer Mamba features a brand new 5G laser sensor and Adjustable Click Force Technology, among other features.



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Chromium 45.0.2435.0
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.



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WinSCP 5.7.4
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.



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TeamTalk 5.1.0
TeamTalk is a conferencing system which enables a group of people to collaborate and share information



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Slimjet 4.0.10.0
Slimjet is a fast, smart and powerful web browser based on the Blink engine. It is built on top of the Chromium open source project, on which Google chrome is also based.



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RogueKiller 10.8.4.0
RogueKiller is a program written in C++ and able to Kill malicious processes, stop malicious services and unload malicious DLLs from processes.



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Unreal Commander 2.02.1082
Unreal Commander is freeware file manager for Windows XP/Vista/7/8.



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GOM Audio 2.0.8.1130
GOM Audio is a free audio player designed to make it simple to listen to CDs, MP3s, M4As, and other popular audio formats on your PC.



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Dropbox Experimental 3.7.37
Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.



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RegRun Security Suite Platinum 7.76.0.176
A powerful tool kit against Trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware components.



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Passmark PerformanceTest 8.0.1049
Quickly assess the performance of their computer and compare it to standard 'baseline' computer systems.



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Audio Hijack Pro for Mac 3.1.1
Use it to enhance the audio output of any Cocoa or Carbon application on your Mac.



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Process Lasso 8.2.0.0
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.



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LastPass for Mac 3.12
Online password manager and form filler.



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Windows Firewall Control 4.5.0.2
Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application which extends the functionality of the Windows Firewall and provides quick access to the most frequent options of Windows Firewall.



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DarkWave Studio 4.7.0
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows.



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Take Command 18.00.18
Take Command is a comprehensive interactive GUI and Windows command line toolkit that makes your Windows command prompts easier to use and far more powerful.



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LinkAssistant SEO Tool 5.1.6
Get Your Search Engine Rankings High By Improving Your Site's Link Popularity.



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Database .NET 15.9.5646
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool Browse objects, design tables, edit rows, export data and run queries with a consistent interface .



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Restore Point Creator 3.0.4
Ever found that creating Restore Points in Windows is a bit tedious? Click this, click that, go there, click another thing, and then finally youÂ’re at where you need to be to create a Restore Point. ThereÂ’s got to be an easier way to do all of that. Right? Well, now there is.



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Line 4.0.3
There are no limits. Call and message as much as you want.



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Junkware Removal Tool 7.0.1
Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from your computer.



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McAfee AVERT Stinger 12.1.0.1579
Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system.



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RemoveIT Pro v7 Ultra 6.17.2015
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files that other popular AV programs do not find.



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Trend Micro Update File 735 for June 17, 2015
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.



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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Definition Update June 17, 2015
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.



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Bitdefender 9-10 Virus Definitions June 17, 2015
Keep your Bitdefender Anti-Virus 9 to 10 updated with the latest definitions.



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VIPRE Antivirus Definitions Update File 41208 June 17, 2015
VIPRE Antivirus out to date with the latest definitions available.



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AVIRA Antivirus Definition Update June 17, 2015
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.



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RemoveIT Pro XT - SE 6.17.2015
Remove many viruses that other popular antivirus software cannot discover.



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Spybot Search and Destroy Detection Update June 17, 2015
This updates the detection rules for Spybot Search and Destroy.



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AMD Radeon 300 Series Graphics Driver 15.15



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Intel Ethernet Connections CD 20.1



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