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New York Times hack shows your antivirus won’t protect you from zero-day attacks

Enrique Manalang February 1, 2013 4

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Some may call it obvious but just having antivirus software installed isn’t going to help you much if hit by zero-day attacks. The New York Times had antivirus from Symantec (Norton) installed on the devices connected to their network, but that didn’t stop Chinese hackers from retrieving usernames and passwords [...]

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Mac owners pay more to stay at hotels, click on more ads, and bargain less than PC owners

Godwin June 28, 2012 7

Mac users have always been considered to be a class above the common PC users, with Mac symbolizing the status of its user; at least in the perspective of a section of the population. It may be ‘pride’ that has now made Mac users specifically targeted by service providers to [...]

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