Spyware plagues campus computers (The Equinox)
The next time an annoying pop-up box appears on your screen, read it before you do anything because the wrong click could infect your computer. A recent outbreak of a program pretending to be anti-spyware has found its way to Keene State College computers, resulting in an alert sent out by the IT group last week.
Special Report: Sharing Your Life (KIMT Mason City)
KIMT NEWS 3 - It's called “Peer 2 Peer” software or “P2P” for short. Most people use it to share things like music with others, but along with the tunes and videos, you may be sharing something else with the world, and you probably don't even know it.
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Code execution flaws haunt OpenOffice (ZDNet)
OpenOffice.org has shipped a new version of the open-source desktop productivity suite to patch a pair of highly-critical vulnerabilities that could expose users to arbitrary code execution attacks. The flaws, which affect all versions prior to OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, could be exploited via manipulated WMF and EMF files in StarOffice or StarSuite documents. The skinny: CVE-2008-2237: A security ...
Facebook worm finds a friend in Google Reader (ZDNet)
The Facebook worm that has been squirming its way through the popular social network now has a new friend -- Google Reader. According to researchers at Fortinet, the worm's creators are wrapping Google's RSS reader around fake video downloads as part of a strategy to strengthen the social engineering component of the attack. From Fortinet's advisory: This "hop" via a Google Reader share serves ...
