Warnings of a heightened terrorist threat have sparked security jitters in Germany with a series of false alarms as people report suspicious objects.
An underground train station in Hamburg was evacuated and a bomb disposal robot brought in after an unattended suitcase was spotted.
Similar to fake antivirus warnings, attackers spoof browsers alert pages to trick users into downloading scareware, said a Symantec researcher. – Scammers are spoofing
anti-malware warnings alerts displayed in popular Internet browsers to fool
Windows users into downloading fake security software, a Symantec researcher
wrote on the companys security blog on Oct. 4.
The threat involves attackers putting up phony versions of
security alert…
Walgreens will text prescription alerts to customers to notify them when their medication is ready. The retail chain also updated its iPhone application to let customers upload photos and order prints. – You may be hearing from
Walgreens often in your SMS inbox. The giant Deerfield, Ill.-based retailer
and pharmacy, which recently bought New York chain Duane Reade, announced on
June 15 that it will text customers to notify them when they can pick up their
prescriptions.
Customers can sign up …
“Catastrophic” alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday. The unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds have led to blazes breaking out in the
Google launches Location History and Location Alerts, features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful, while inviting scrutiny from privacy critics. Despite the obvious privacy safeguards of not sharing location history with other users and allowing users to scrub their location history, the new Latitude features will likely warrant the attention of organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation that are nervous about location-based services. Latitude competes with services such as Loopt and Brightkite.
– Google Nov. 10 launched Location History and Location Alerts, features that
will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful and
invite scrutiny from privacy critics.
Google launched Latitude in February as a new Google Maps
feature and iGoogle gadget that lets users see …
Crescendo Networks is rolling out a new application service controller, the AppBeat SC, that enables users to receive alerts in a number of ways, including via Twitter and e-mail. In addition, users have the option of allowing Crescendo support staff to monitor their Twitter accounts for alerts. In addition to the service controller, Crescendo also is unveiling a high-end app delivery controller device.
– Crescendo Networks is rolling out a new application delivery controller as well as an appliance that enables users to receive alerts via Twitter.
Crescendos AppBeat SC Service Controller gives users multiple ways to monitor their AppBeat application delivery controllers and receive alerts when prob…
An Email notification is sent by Facebook account to your email account for different activities. For an active Facebook user, such email notifications are least important. These only fill email inbox and one has to spend more time deleting such notification emails. You can easily stop & disable such email notifications from Facebook settings page.
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