Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Jun 2006 16:53 UTC (New Mobile Computing)
A lot of people seem to have this idea that Windows Vista looks an awful lot like the MacOS. LifeHacker.com sets some screenshots side-by-side for comparison, and even though they refrain from judgement ( "We're just saying" ), I do wish to make a few sidenotes about this issue.
Huge rise in malware this year (InfoWorld)
Malware has risen by a staggering 278 percent in the first half of 2008, thanks in part to the large number of Web sites comprised last month, so says a new study by ScanSafe. And it warns that the situation is only going to get worse, especially after Dan Kaminsky goes public with details about his 20-year-old DNS vulnerability. The ScanSafe Global Threat report is a study of more than ...
New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs (InfoWorld)
A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks. The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files. [ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter , both from InfoWorld. ] "The possibility of this has been known for ...
Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans (InfoWorld)
A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talking about Microsoft's aim to buy Yahoo's search business, which could involve obtaining the entire company and breaking it apart. ...
Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords (InfoWorld)
Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections. They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers -- including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain -- by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and then using a Microsoft administration tool to spread their malicious ...
