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"Plizzz give a key for antivirus, ceased litsuha"! Who among us has not seen the mountains of such requests in the network? Some may even remember their similar requests. But what is behind them? Personal financial crisis? Conflicting desire to feel secure using unsafe hacked antivir? Single answer will not bring anybody, but you can definitely argue that this is a mass delusion, of which we now try to get with you. Do you know, dear friends, that to date the number of illegal users of licensed software security outnumber legitimate? This is anecdotal evidence, because officially confirm it yet very few people capable of, and even those who could officially confirm it, usually for one reason or another do not do. What is the problem, do anti-virus and firewall redirector in fact so expensive that many people can not legally allow them yourself? Oh no, not, it is not the point. Just the mass of people everywhere and in all prefer that the well-advertised, what say, only in nar...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife For many people, the word «hacker» associated with the word «bank». This is not surprising, because for several decades, crackers, who like to «get» a lot of money to pay their tactical look at the banks. And this is understandable: that may give the greatest amount of money, if not an attack on a major bank? But break the servers that control the transactions and accounts - it ungrateful. That will attract too much attention, and increased attention increases the risk of being caught. It is therefore much more interesting for an attacker with a very different version - it is to gain access to the assets of the bank's clients. Everything is simple enough: less than the scale-breaking - more likely to remain at large - is inversely proportional to, in mathematical language. It is at this, I would like today. In this article I will explain the following points: the type of work, and malicious software that specializes in banks and other financial or...

In the first days of the new year, as in the past few weeks last year, IT-community of Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional software market. However, even more so than many on the market, but the entire software industry in the post-Soviet space. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate are sometimes to the opposite conclusions. In 2007, the Russian market run software grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover on the Russian market run in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 on the Russian market has already risen to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the entire CIS, it is enough to increase the performance of the Russian one and a half times. The structure is sound boxed software sales in 2008, according to the study of association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% sales fall to corporate clients, 20% - in th...

Image via Wikipedia Apparently, in 2009, significant changes occur in the market of mobile systems. This will be the year when the mobile way of life will become an integral part of reality. With the advent of mobile Internet devices (Mobile Internet Device - MID) and netbukov access to mobile computing and the Internet. Mobile devices have become a well-deserved popularity with many different types of users - kinomanov and designers, young people and children, social workers and inveterate gamers. Interest in these technologies is growing inexorably, and we are seeing the emergence of new patterns of use of mobile devices. They become kontekstnoorientirovannymi, ie provide the user with information in accordance with its current location or needs. The rapid spread of super systems Since in 1981, was the first mass produced laptop computer, notebooks have become the main impetus of the market of mobile computing. Sales of mobile systems worldwide is growing at a pace that is proj...

Image via Wikipedia The phrase «Silicon Valley» has long become common nouns - now they refer to any techno, all separate areas of concentrated high-tech production and development. But those who use this expression, as a rule, very little is known about the history of the same - the first - the Silicon Valley. Let's try to fill this gap. University Silicon Valley - District of California, featuring a high density of high-tech companies - especially computer and telecommunications. Silicon Valley is located in the vicinity of the San Francisco Bay: in fact it is a space between the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today, the main factors of this valley, a phenomenon referred to as the presence of Stanford University and major cities in less than an hour away, the sources of funding for new companies, as well as superb Mediterranean-type climate. It all started back in 1891 when, in a valley near the town of Palo Alto as a bequest a large landowner Lilenda Stanford opened S...

Image via Wikipedia December 9, the company AOL has once again showed all his very special relationship to the users of the same protocol ICQ. Around the dinner, many users of older versions of clients ICQ, as well as some alternative clients when trying to connect to the ICQ servers have received the message type: "ICQ version 5.1 is no longer supported. Download a free authorized version of ICQ from the official web-site ICQ. "From the contact with the nickname« 1 ». No other information on the contact was not, though, and so could guess who is the author of this message. Meanwhile, all other contacts in the list were from this time are not available. However, even alternative and old customers, the problem affected only those who have tried to connect to the server. Customers that have already been online and not made reconnection has long publicly stated that they "worked". In fact, of the popular clients for Windows to remain fully operational, only ICQ and ICQ...