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- Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0
- Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- What really happened to the candidates' computers?
- Now that two weeks have passed since the end of the presidential campaigns, it is worthwhile to take a look at what I think should have one of the biggest cybercrime stories of the year. As Ryan blogged the day after the election, both the McCain and the Obama...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- SAP Trimming Head Count, "Can't Rule Out" Layoffs
- Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"
- I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
- News items 2008-11-18
- Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?
- Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don't download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap. But this seemingly straightforward effort has raised a ruckus...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan: With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
- The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up
- More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Making Man As Super As His Computer
- Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Are MacBooks starting to look like HPs?
- Separated at birth? Steve Urkel sent me the following email: I was at a relatives house and someone saw my MacBook and said "Hey, I've got that HP also." He was halfway joking, but his comment did point out a few things: PowerBooks...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Businesses warming up to Apple iPhone
- Consumers just love the sleek face and curvy lines of Apple's iPhone 3G, but what about the business community? According to CNET's Tom Krazit, RIM's BlackBerry is under assault from Apple's "Jesus phone" -- and better keep an eye behind it: The iPhone is making a...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Whatever happened to the 'middle' in middleware?
- Quote of the week: "In the mid 1990s, 'middle' meant 'the gaps between applications and software components.' Middleware was technology you turned to in order to try to build distributed systems: transaction processing middleware, database middleware, object middleware... Middleware was a technological concept. ...Now, 'middle' means...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, reboot
- Are you a serial software-installer? Has Windows rebooted while you were in the middle of doing something else? If you install software on a regular basis and get rebooted on without asking, ShutdownGuard could be a useful little utility for you. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Don't inhale, it's legal but it's toxic
- That's the conclusion of a United Nations report on the atmosphere above large sections of Asia. Guess all that economic growth comes with a little extra. Nasty plumes of smoke, soot, toxic gases and other fine manmade crud are found all over the planet, but the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- No judicial notice for Wikipedia
- It seems that courts will not take judicial notice of Wikipedia entries. A Texas appellate court declined a defendant's request that the court take notice of Wiki's page on the Reid technique of interviewing and interrogation, the Internet Cases blog notes. Fed. R. Evid. 201 provides...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Why did Microsoft wait 7 years to fix SMBRelay attack flaw?
- One of the code execution vulnerabilities fixed in this month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday release dates back to 2001 when it was first disclosed by Cult of the Dead Cow hacker Sir Dystic pictured left. If that wasn't cause for worry, get this: An exploit for the bug...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Why can't kids text in context?
- Most of us big people can send a text message or a quick email from our phones. We abbreviate, use emoticons, and are both adept at and understanding of those terse replies appropriate for text/IM communications. We may not be quite as speedy with our thumbs as our...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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