According to Sourcewire, ScanSafe, the global provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, has made public the availability of Anywhere+ which can be considered the first application in the world ever to function software -as-a-service (SaaS) Web security delivering real-time security against malware and enforcement of adequate Internet usage policies for all users surfing the Web no matter what their location is.

What is CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart and it is a system employed by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others, designed prevent automated systems that attempt to register web-based email accounts, or to dump spam and guessing passwords on blog comments sections.

A mysterious virus has been attacking hundred of sites, most UK-based. Among them, Directline-holidays, a company for the customers with a small budget but eager to have a vacation.The computers of the people using the site are infected with a Trojan which extracts information and uses for its purpose.

Specifically, the Websense Security Labs expects: the Olympics will spur a flurry of hacker activity such as compromises of popular Olympic news or other sports sites; hackers will leverage the increased adoption of Macs and iPhones as new means for cross-platform Web attacks; special interest groups that fall within a certain age group, wealth bracket, or people with particular purchasing habits, will become targets of Web 2.0 attacks; and spam will increase in the blogosphere and “talk back” sections of news sites to drive traffic and increase search engine rankings of infected Web sites.

Shopping online can be very relieving, cheaper and time-saving as long as it is done safely but it can just as well become quite risky.There are, however, a few tips that the Federal Trade Commission, according to North Jersey magazine, has offered to those engaging online shopping.