Kaspersky has discovered the Podec CAPTCHA Trojan, the first malware to successfully outwit the CAPTCHA image recognition system. Called Podec, the malware has developed a technique to convince CAPTCHA it is a person in order to subscribe thousands of infected Android users to premium-rate services.
Ricardo-AEA’s chemical risk practice, the National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC), has won a three year contract to provide the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) with emergency telephone advice – the contract includes global, multilingual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week as well as access to the NCEC’s hazardous chemicals database.
BeyondTrust has announced a successful project that is helping RWE Supply & Trading, a leading pan-European energy trading house reduce security risks while meeting budgetary and regulatory constraints.
Reading UK: IGEL has updated the firmware of its Linux thin client operating system with the latest software clients for Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop, VMware Horizon and Microsoft RDS. The updates to the current IGEL Universal Desktop Linux v5 thin client operating system and its v4 predecessor allow customers to benefit from the latest features of a central IT or cloud environment and extend the operating life of older IGEL models.
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