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Issue #3
Welcome to the
latest issue of our eNewsletter: ESP News, we hope you like it!
In this month’s
issue we look at new Operating Systems, fixes to current Operating Systems
and upgrades to Internet browser software. We’ll see how social networking
sites have been misused in Europe and how hackers have taken on
McAfee. Finally we review the potential launch of satellite broadband in
the next few years.
We’ll keep doing our best to make sure we send you genuinely useful
snippets and if you have any comments or suggestions for a future article,
please drop us a line. And don't forget to tell your friends!
Mark Nutburn
Director, Sixth
Sense ESP
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It's official, Windows 7 being released on 22nd October!
This
information was released recently at the Computex conference in
Taiwan, that Windows 7 will launch on 22nd of October this year.
This
October release date is a quick turnaround for Windows as they had
claimed that Windows 7 would arrive within 3 years of Windows Vista,
putting it on course for an early 2010 release date.
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Vista SP2 available for download
Microsoft
has made Vista Service Pack 2 available for download.
The 348MB
download (577MB for 64-bit Vista users) is little more than a enormous
bug fix, encompassing all the updates released since Vista SP1 rolled
out.
The Service
Pack is a combined update for both Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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Google puts
its foot on the accelerator with Chrome 2
Google is
attempting to pull away from the browser pack with the launch of
Chrome 2, which it claims is 30% faster on Javascript-heavy pages than
its already nimble predecessor.
Version 2
of the browser is by no means the major overhaul normally associated
with new version numbers. In fact, casual users would be hard pressed
to notice the difference.
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German murderer used Facebook to feed obsession
Police have
warned against posting too much personal information on the internet,
after a German man was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a
British computing student he met online.
David Heiss,
21, from, Dauborn, near Limburg, developed an obsession with his
victim's girlfriend, and used information the couple had posted online
to plan his attack in September last year.
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Hackers expose holes in McAfee website
Security firm McAfee has been left with egg on its face after
it was revealed the company's own website was susceptible to
phishing attacks.
Various parts of the McAfee website were vulnerable to
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Perhaps the most serious
was a XSS flaw in the McAfee Secure site - a service that
supposedly certifies the security of third-party websites so
that consumers know who to trust when shopping online.
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Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK
A French
firm plans to launch a satellite next year that it says will offer the
entire UK up to 10Mbit/s broadband, including rural areas that are
poorly served by ADSL and cable.
Its new
craft, launching in the third quarter of 2010, will use the Ka band of
the microwave spectrum to deliver speeds close to those typically
offered by the ADSL2+ equipment currently being installed in local
exchanges by BT.
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