Recently, the phishing attempts are happening again as seen above from my twitter account. Those who had received such direct messages and have given their account details should change their passwords immediately.
Scammers are also taking advantage of tweets in a way similar to how they rely on Internet search engines – they create Tweets that include keywords in them. Similar to how websites are designed to gain visibility through search engine optimization, scammers use Tweets that require less effort. For example, new Tweets appearing at the top in the search results list for the most recent Tweets.
There are about 100 accounts tweeting around 300 Tweets with bad links every hour. Twitter blocks suspected malware URLs and flags suspected harmful shortened URLs. However some users may be directed to sites when clicking on the malicious links using smartphones. Users are typically informed that they have completed registration for a paid video service and ask that payment be made. These sites display information such as IP addresses, customer IDs, and browsers used to access the page to make the user believe that the site owner can track them down.
Recently, the phishing attempts are happening again as seen above from my twitter account. Those who had received such direct messages and have given their account details should change their passwords immediately.
Scammers are also taking advantage of tweets in a way similar to how they rely on Internet search engines – they create Tweets that include keywords in them. Similar to how websites are designed to gain visibility through search engine optimization, scammers use Tweets that require less effort. For example, new Tweets appearing at the top in the search results list for the most recent Tweets.
There are about 100 accounts tweeting around 300 Tweets with bad links every hour. Twitter blocks suspected malware URLs and flags suspected harmful shortened URLs. However some users may be directed to sites when clicking on the malicious links using smartphones. Users are typically informed that they have completed registration for a paid video service and ask that payment be made. These sites display information such as IP addresses, customer IDs, and browsers used to access the page to make the user believe that the site owner can track them down.
Norton Identity Safe - Secures, remembers, and automatically enters user names and passwords while protecting users from online threats.
Norton Management - Delivers advanced cloud-based functionality to manage select Norton products remotely for greater ease and control.
Bandwidth Management - Limits non-critical Norton updates when connected to metered networks to avoid using up monthly data allotments or causing overage fees.
Improved Backup - Faster and easier back up capabilities and tracking.
Norton Management: Makes it easy to download, transfer, update, or renew your Norton products from anywhere right over the Internet.
Norton Identity Safe: Cloud-based vaults enable secure access to login and password information from any computer with Norton Internet Security 2012 installed.
Norton Insight: Stops new online threats before they can cause you trouble by checking where files came from and how long they’ve been around.
Download Insight: Protects against dangerous applications by telling you if they may harm the health and stability of your computer before you install them.
Bandwidth Management: Limits non-critical Norton updates when you connect to metered networks to avoid using up your monthly data allotment or causing overage fees.
SONAR: Improved SONAR technology monitors running applications for suspicious behavior to quickly detect and disable previously unknown threats.
Norton Internet Security 2012 is now available in Singapore at MSRP of SGD$89 for one year of protection for up to three PC and and Norton Antivirus 2012 is now available in Singapore at MSRP of SGD$39, which provides one year of protection for one PC.
Existing users with valid subscriptions of Norton Internet Security 2007 and Norton Antivirus 2012 and above can update their software for free. For more information, visit http://updatecenter.norton.com.
On the 2nd day of Christmas… Yeah you heard me. I’m giving away more stuff. This time I’m giving away 2 copies of Norton Internet Security 2010 (upgradable), 1 copy of Norton Internet Security 2011 (retail price SGD $58.99), and 1 copy of Norton 360 version 4.0 with 3 licenses (retail price SGD $109.99).
Here’s how you can get it. Just comment on this post telling me you want it and if you have any preference for any product, and I’ll randomly select 4 lucky winners for this giveaway. This giveaway ends on 22nd December 2011 2359 and only people residing in Singapore is eligible.
It’s FREE. It’s effective. And it makes your experience on Facebook safer. The Norton Safe Web for Facebook application scans your news feeds and identifies URLs containing security risks such as phishing sites, malicious downloads and links to unsafe external sites. With this application, you can easily see which links in your News Feed are unsafe for you or your friends to click on.
Norton Safe Web is a website rating service from Symantec. Everyday Norton Safe Web analyzes several million of URLs to look for those containing security risks. The results from our site rating analysis are used to warn users against sites that might infect their PCs or compromise their personal information.
I highly recommend this to all Facebook users (which is practically everyone in the world) in order to protect you from malicious web site links on your Facebook. What are you waiting for? Add this app!
How many times have you went to a site that contains malicious content? Even so, unknowingly revealing your passwords and vital information to total strangers on the web? This is where Norton DNS comes in. It utilizes Norton Safe Web to find out whether the site you are accessing is safe to surf. Setting up is as simple as just running the provided application, or if you are tech savvy, just changing your DNS settings to 198.153.192.1 and 198.153.194.1. It is as simple as that, and you’re now protected from the dangerous web.
Yesterday, I went to the Norton 2010 Launch, and I must say it is definitely a very interesting and unique launch. It was held at the Singapore Flyer, at one of the event halls. It started out with a very casual registration and dinner. Followed by 3 different games (like what?) that essentially brings out the theme of the event, “Get Safer, Smarter, and Faster”.
The 1st game was “Spot the difference” of two pictures of Da Vinci’s Last Supper (Faster). The 2nd game were to solve anagrams, and they were focused on security keywords (Smarter). The last game was to create an egg catcher out of scraps (Safer).
After all the games, the actual event commenced, with Effendy Ibrahim first up, followed by David talking about Norton’s new technology in Norton 2010.
The last time I used a Norton product was many years back, and the impression I had was that Norton was a very resource-hogging, cpu-intensive, clunky and annoying huge piece of junk that takes over your computer, decreasing your computer’s performance and usability, including increasing boot-time.
That was all in the past. In Norton 2010, they focused on making it light on memory – using only just 10MB at idle, faster scanning speeds, fewer intrusive popups, increases boot time by only a little, and installs under 1 minute. But the most impressive technology that separates Norton from the rest of the other security suites is an additional new level of security, codenamed Quorum, that essentially uses the concept of “Crowdsourcing” to discover any new malware that isn’t already in the database of malware signatures. Quorum uses the opinions of the masses to determine the “reputation” of a certain file based on some statistical algorithm which allows Norton 2010 to determine whether if a file should be denied or allowed based on this “reputation”. This allows faster and quicker propagation of malware discovery, allowing it to determine a new malware within an average 1 hour. This is just the tip of the iceberg for Quorum. There are many other ideas in the works that makes use of this concept, like being able to determine whether a particular application is unstable or will crash your system, and various other interesting ideas for quick propagation of information regarding a certain application.
Another technology, System Insight, is useful for technically-inclined users (friends and family of the technically-inclined). The constant performance monitoring of applications allows these users to correlate poor performance with activity on the PC, including new downloads and installs. This will enable users to figure out (for friends and family) what exactly is slowing down their computer and remove or mitigate the cause.
In terms of the User Interface, and the toolbar, I’m not impressed with the space-eating toolbar, and the gratuitous animation which does not bring any additional value at all to the user. Thank goodness it isn’t an often used feature. If Norton needs some recommendations with UX, look me up and I’ll recommend several great UX gurus. Installing toolbars and taking over precious real-estate space on your screen, especially when netbooks are becoming popular, isn’t really the way to go. Random fancy, gratuitous animation just because it looks cool does NOT add any value to the user experience, but might even slow down the animation performance on slower computers. It is the epitome of BAD user interface design. With that said, I’m pretty impressed with how they represented System Insight and performance monitoring in a timeline, which is something that actually make sense.
Other than that, I am pretty impressed with the improvements they have made in terms of speed, and memory resources. With regards to the event, it was great and enjoyable. Enjoy the photos below.
Some additional interesting read of Gratuitous Animations and Design:
