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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
- Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC
- The point is to actually make fair use -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal, Rick Cotton, this afternoon said that 99 percent of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- A Kindroid in every pot?
- A Kindroid in every pot?We need open source text books as well. Text books are still way tooexpensive, and the friction of paying the licenses and keeping track of them would kill this kind of roll-out.Silliest idea everIf you start mixing and matching functions of different devices, you turn it...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Flying robots based on birds and insects
- A team of engineers at the University of Maryland specializing in flight and navigation, is turning to biology for inspiration to protect troops as the military's role in international dealings has increased. According to the team leader, the key to ensuring troops' protection lies in the study of birds and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- DirecTV's HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?
- DirecTV's HD tuner for Media Center PCs, first announced at CES three years ago, has achieved the same notoriety as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster. The occasional sighting is always enshrouded in fog and mystery, and no one has ever reported spotting one of these mythical creatures...
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Rigged PDFs exploiting just-patched Adobe Reader flaw
- Just three days after Adobe shipped a patch with fixes for a critical Adobe Reader vulnerability, hackers are using booby-trapped PDF files to fire exploits against Windows users. [ SEE: Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now ] The in-the-wild attacks, first spotted by...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- News to know: Cisco's outlook; Web 2.0 Summit; WinHEC; Google-Yahoo
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cisco's Chambers breaks out economic downturn playbook; Eyes cost cuts as demand dries up Sam Diaz: Web 2.0 Summit: Focus on solving problems, not overnight...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces--unused spectrum between broadcast channels--in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids'. In a statement following the FCC's 5-0 approval Techmeme, Chairman Kevin Martin said: Opening the white spaces will allow...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- News to know: FCC oks white spaces; Firefox; Dell; Adobe patch
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Obama wins: CBS News: Election Webcast Techmeme: FCC approves plan to approve white spaces for broadband use Joe Brockmeier: Vote Firefox! Mozilla passes 20%...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wildI will not be directly affected.I use Linux. (This is a trap for the Windows fanboys to proclaim that Linux would be as vulnerable if it was as popular as Windows.)thanks sincerely, RyanThis time you were really clear that there was a fix, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- First came Microsoft's emergency patch. Then the public release of reliable exploit code. Now, virus hunters are reporting two new in-the-wild worms exploiting the critical MS08-067 vulnerability. The worms, intercepted on Chinese-language versions of Windows, are being used to install a Trojan downloader, a denial-of-service bot and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
- Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!Thanks for the history...Thanks for the history, but I don't think I'll be drinking in celebration this Nov. 2nd... I'll be drinking that day to ease the pain of removing all that junk off my computer... lol...Ah, the start of the rot began where?[i]"On November 2nd,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- It's primetime for collaboration mashups
- As winter draws in throughout the northern hemisphere, the silver lining of the recession we are descending into for the collaboration tools industry is the huge use case justifications for strapped companies of all sizes to take advantage of their products. In an era which is going...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Exploit published for Windows worm hole
- Reliable exploit code for the remote code execution vulnerability patched with Microsoft's MS08-067 update has been posted to the Internet, prompting a new "patch immediately" advisory from the Redmond software maker. The exploit, which has been added to the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, provides a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Latest MS Vuln eerily similar to one from two years previous
- The recently discovered critical Windows vulnerability that necessitated an out-of-cycle patch is extremely similar to one that first appeared two years ago. The MS08-067 vulnerability, which was originally spotted by analyzing in-the-wild captures, is remarkably similar to the MS06-040 vulnerability that enabled the spread of a variant of the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Microsoft to release critical Windows security patch on October 23
- Microsoft to release critical Windows security patch on October 23Let me save you the troubleLet's get this out of the way for the fanboys. "This wouldn't be needed with XX OS." Substitute for XX Linux or Mac OS designation in prior sentence. That's not correct but it...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- E-commerce's looming question: Will consumers show up?
- The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped? Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector? To wit: Amazon's fourth quarter outlook, which had a range so...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Wonderful Flowers 3D Screensaver (exe)
- Wonderful flowers 3D Screensaver present to yourself a summer moment. Every possible bright wild flower will please you with its attraction and beauty. Flitting over wonderful bouquet motley butterflies cast a feeling of easiness and beauty. This screensaver will cause joy to you and give sensation of cordiality and tenderness.
- Software downloads 2008-10-23
- Salsa Timing Gone Wild (exe)
- If you are a beginning salsa dancer and have problems finding the beat of the music, Salsa Timing Gone Wild is for you. Salsa Timing Gone Wild is designed for you to naturally develop the intuition on how to find 'The One' in salsa music. It does this in several...
- Software downloads 2008-10-23
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