Neowin News Feed for: Personal

Customers can now choose to remain on G Suite legacy free edition for personal use

Paul Hill — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:30:02 +0000

Google has decided to let personal G Suite legacy free edition customers carry on using the service and won't insist they move to Google Workspace. The legacy service will not get support. Read more...

Twitter is making it easier to identify personal accounts of heads of state

Usama Jawad — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:30:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it will be adding more labels to state official from G7 countries as well as others which have participated in "information operations" such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Read more...

Microsoft stresses that Windows 10 does not breach your privacy

Usama Jawad — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:50:01 +0000

Microsoft's Terry Myerson has offered a statement on the privacy concerns faced by some users in Windows 10, claiming that "unlike some other platforms", Microsoft does not collect personal data. Read more...

Owner of a smart TV says he is "afraid" of using it after reading the 46-page privacy policy

Usama Jawad — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:32:01 +0000

As technology progresses, not only phones have become "smart" but TVs as well, which is not necessarily a good thing as it can mean that you have to give up your privacy. Read more...

Avira AntiVir Personal 12.0.0.861

Steven Parker — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:37:53 +0000

Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc. Monitors every action... Read more...

Apple reorganizes stores for personal setup service

Alan Cone — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:37:23 +0000

Last month we reported that Apple is phasing out physical software media in their stores, which was most likely for moving the software market over the the Mac App Store. Now Apple appears to be... Read more...

Q&A with HP Personal Systems Group CTO, Phil McKinney

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:24:57 +0000

A few weeks ago during CES we had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation at CNTRSTG by Chief Technology Officer of HP's Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney. Phil spoke to us about several... Read more...

Verizon offers in home personal cell tower

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:44:13 +0000

Verizon has introduced a new in home personal cell phone tower that connects to your broadband connection so users can get a full signal within a 5000 square foot area. The unit connects... Read more...

EU Official: IP Addresses are Personal Information

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:11:00 +0000

IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday. Germany's data protection commissioner,... Read more...

Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:47:40 +0000

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the... Read more...

Firms admit to two more cases of personal data loss

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:25:31 +0000

Personal details of another 7,000 people in the UK may have gone missing after two more organisations admitted to a breach of data security. The largest of the latest incidents is at the Driver and... Read more...

Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:43:44 +0000

The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety... Read more...

Trojan Horse Dupes Skype Users, Steals Personal Info

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:05:55 +0000

Skype Ltd. again warned users of its software that malicious code targeting the voice-over-IP (VoIP) and instant messaging service was on the prowl, the second such alert in the past five weeks. A Trojan horse... Read more...

Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.36

Razvan Serea — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:55:44 +0000

Jetico Personal Firewall software provides you with security against hackers who try to access your PC when you are connected to the Internet. Having inherited the Open architecture principles from BestCrypt, Jetico Personal Firewall allows... Read more...

Secunia Personal Software Inspector 0.1.0.2 Beta

Razvan Serea — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:05:01 +0000

The Secunia PSI is an invaluable tool for you to use when assessing the security patch state of software installed on your system. It constantly monitors your system for insecure software installations, notifies you when... Read more...

Trojan Hidden on Job Search Sites Steals Personal Data

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:01:24 +0000

SecureWorks researchers have uncovered a cache of stolen data from 46,000 victims of a variant of the Prg Trojan that has been used to swipe personal information from unsuspecting visitors to job sites. Experts at... Read more...

Secunia Personal Software Inspector 0.1.0.1 Beta

Razvan Serea — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:36:20 +0000

Hacker accesses students' personal information

Wed, 09 May 2007 02:06:19 +0000

The FBI has launched an investigation regarding a computer hacker accessing the Social Security numbers and personal information of 22,396 current or former students at the University of Missouri-Columbia who also worked at one of... Read more...

TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personal Information

Sun, 06 May 2007 20:16:22 +0000

The Transportation Security Agency has lost an external computer hard drive containing the personal, bank and payroll information of up to 100,000 of its former and current employees who worked for the TSA from January... Read more...

Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.5.916

Razvan Serea — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:42:21 +0000

The Sunbelt Personal Firewall helps control how computers share information with other computers through the Internet or a local network. It also protects computers from external or internal attacks from other computers. The Personal... Read more...

Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.28 Beta

Razvan Serea — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:21:01 +0000

Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.27 Beta

Razvan Serea — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:32:10 +0000

PowerChute Personal Edition 2.1.0 for Windows Vista

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:13:17 +0000

APC has released an Vista compatible version of it's Power Management software for controlling it's consumer line of UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supplies) hardware. You must have a registered login (Free) on APC web site to... Read more...

Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.24 Beta

Razvan Serea — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:16:39 +0000

Comodo Personal Firewall 2.4.17.183

Razvan Serea — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:38:52 +0000

Comodo Firewall Pro will secure your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses, malicious software, and external attacks by hackers. With a user-friendly single click interface you can allow or block access to the... Read more...

Comodo Personal Firewall 2.4.16.174 Final

Razvan Serea — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:23:06 +0000

iolo Personal Firewall 1.0.5

Razvan Serea — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:51:52 +0000

iolo Personal Firewall puts up a barrier against Internet dangers by controlling the communication between your PC and other computers. It prevents unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer. Once installed, your computer is... Read more...

iolo Personal Firewall 1.0.3

Razvan Serea — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:38:10 +0000

P2P Users Beware, Your Personal Info Could Be Out There

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:30:35 +0000

Users of P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing services may be sharing more than they bargained for, a former White House cybersecurity advisor has warned. Security researchers have found thousands of files with sensitive information by searching... Read more...

Can Intel-based Macs retake the personal computer market?

Brad Wardell — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 03:12:59 +0000

Apple's move to Intel is certainly a risk. But it also has some significant benefits. First, they get economies of scale on their side -- they can manufacture Macs at a price similar to what... Read more...

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06

Sat, 28 May 2005 09:14:01 +0000

Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the... Read more...

Google's Home Page Gets Personal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:52:47 +0000

Google launched a new personalized service this week that incorporates features such as Google News and Gmail onto the company's notoriously sparse home page. The service allows visitors to Google's site to display content of... Read more...

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.05

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:25:18 +0000

Ad-aware Standard Edition is the award winning, free (for private use), multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability. With its ability to comprehensively scan your... Read more...

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.04

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:10:29 +0000

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.01

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:50:32 +0000

Sygate Personal Firewall Version 5.5 Build 2637

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:33:14 +0000

Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and... Read more...

Kerio Personal Firewall 4.1.1.0 Beta 5

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:26:07 +0000

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) helps users control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network. Kerio Personal Firewall is a necessity for all desktop computers connected to broadband Internet,... Read more...

Man's personal data still on "new" hard drive

Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:12:40 +0000

YOU'RE PROBABLY wondering why we haven't called up the chap whose personal data was on a drive we bought from PC World a few weeks back at full price. The answer is this is a... Read more...

Tiny Personal Firewall 6.0.90

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 09:03:00 +0000

Tiny Personal Firewall represents smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects personal computers against hackers. It is built on the proven WinRoute Pro, ICSA certified security technology. Tiny Personal Firewall offers the ultimate protection... Read more...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.142

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:12:56 +0000

Kaspersky™ Anti-Virus (KAV) provides all types of anti-virus protection: anti-virus scan-ners, monitors, behavior blockers and integrity checkers. It supports all of the most popular operating systems, e-mail gateways and firewalls. KAV controls all possible... Read more...