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A new version of Skype software has been made available to users.

Skype, famous client Internet telephony developed by the company of the same name which claims more than 300 million registered users in the world, we arrive in a new version for the Windows operating system.

Estampillée 4.0.0.155, this new version n’annonce not moult novelties. The ratings upgrades that accompany indeed show three things. Firstly, there is the plug-in Firefox that passes the version 2.2.0.94. Then they mention the correction of a bug affecting the display of video mood (learn more about the mood panel) and instant messages when Flash Player 10 is installed. Finally, there is talk of the updated translations.

Please note that this is a so-called beta version. Beware of any bugs so. However, for users who swear by stability, a new version of Skype 3.8 for Windows is also available and corrects almost the same thing.

Download Skype 4.0.0.155 for Windows
Download the latest version of Skype 3.8 for Windows

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A new security update for Firefox 2 is available for download.

The Mozilla Foundation has put online a new security update for Firefox 2, the older version of its Internet browser open, multi-platform (Windows, Macintosh and Linux). Serialized 2.0.0.16, this sixteenth revision since October 2006 announced the correction of two vulnerabilities described as critical.

The first of these allows the opening of several tabs calling URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) command line while Firefox is not already executed, while the second allows the execution of arbitrary code remotely via overflow at an object CSS.

Note that these two vulnerabilities also affect Firefox 3.0 and will be corrected in the version 3.01 out very quickly.

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In the case of copyright infringement, which opposes the media group Viacom, YouTube feels compelled to provide its historical connection.

The case dates back to March of 2007. Viacom, a large group of American media holding, inter alia, Comedy Central, Dreamworks, MTV and Paramount, had filed a complaint against YouTube, the famous video portal owned by Google. The first accused the second violation of copyright with the dissemination of 160 000 videos that it owns the rights. These videos have been seen 1.5 billion times, which would consequently generating advertising revenue for YouTube, but also caused losses for Viacom.

A judge in a federal court in the city of San Francisco just to order YouTube to restore the historical connection of its users (4 TB of data) so that Viacom can prove that its videos were posted and views massively, in order to justify the billion dollars that is claimed as compensation. It has been clarified by Viacom that will not take the opportunity to identify users by their IP addresses.

However, Viacom has been dismissed for its request for obtaining the source code of the platform and tool for detecting illegal content.

The German publisher of security solutions displays the grid tariffs in the areas of cybercrime.

The security specialists agree that now is not the time for “hacker” with only reward a reputation that can sometimes cause him some tords. The time is now to the crime which is meant lucrative often say. To better realizing it, G Data shows the rates in force in the circles of cybercrime to the many economic models.

For information on a credit card, the price is variable depending on the value of information issued, or $2 to $25 for the date of expiration, the owner, the code. A PayPal account is trading at around $7 or less than $8 for a World of Warcraft, the online games category which attracts more and more cybercriminals. As for the shipment of spam, it reported nearly $495 for 20 million unsolicited email sent for 14 days.

An attack by denial of service is charged 25 to $100 with the first 10 minutes offered, then $20 an hour and $100 the day. The rates start to rise significantly for security vulnerabilities including the provision of an exploit can bring between 100 and $3000. The ratings soar with a security hole unknown paid up to 5000 to $50000.