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f-secure.com

by F-Secure

November 27, 2008

Another variant of AVXP08 is reported to have been using dodgy practices in order to push their product, and really, what's new? Yet another rogue antispyware on the loose.

Funny thing is though, it even has specific websites for different countries, so that they can cater to specific audiences. Here are some of the sites that they host for different countries. OK, so let's say the user (by some stroke of luckless chance, or courtesy of a trojan downloader) ends up with the demo installer of Rogue:W32/VirusRemover2008.C on their hands and it runs... Enter the End User License Agreement (EULA)...

tomshardware.com

by Marcus Yam and Amos Ngai

December 1, 2008

A new "Power Saving Feature" in the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pros was inadvertently discovered by Gearlog while they were doing a routine benchmark.

Gearlog was benchmarking was to test third party RAM modules for use in the new MacBook Pros, but discovered that the notebook's processing power significantly decreased after the battery was removed during the test. It was confirmed that Apple does indeed scale back the CPU processing speed while operating on AC power without a battery installed. According to this support document, Apple essentially down-clocks the CPU to prevent the system from shutting down if it happens to demand greater power than the AC adapter alone can provide...

WEEK News 25

by Gina Ford

December 5, 2008

An aggressive virus has been affecting computers nationwide, and it's a growing problem. It even took one of our computers down in the newsroom.

It is indeed an aggressive virus, and it's known as M-S Anti-virus...the latest version is 2009. It's a scam...the makers lure people into believing it's a protection tool and con unsuspecting people into buying it.

San Francisco Chronicle

by Verne Kopytoff

December 6, 2008

Facebook's millions of users are in the crosshairs of a computer virus dubbed Koobface that is being spread through the social networking site's messaging system.

Users whose computers are infected may have their credit card numbers stolen or their searches on Google, Yahoo and MSN diverted to fraudulent Web sites. The malicious code underscores how hackers are increasingly targeting social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace to capitalize on their big audiences.

The New York Times

by John Markoff

December 8, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO -- License plates may be coming to cyberspace. Government and technology experts urge a move away from passwords and toward more secure devices.

Restricting Internet access is one of a series of recommendation that a group of more than sixty government and business computer security specialists will make in a public presentation of "Securing Cyberspace in the 44th Presidency" Monday.

darkreading.com

by Gadi Evron

December 11, 2008

Facebook users are facing a new threat, 419 scams in chat form, masquerading as friends.

I know because it just happened to me (think: 419 scam). An "acquaintance" sent me a message using Facebook chat that said, "Hi." Easy enough. I replied in kind. Then she told me a horror story of being held at gunpoint and stranded in London. At first, I was worried. But something didn't seem right...

Monsters and Critics

by Jay Dougherty

January 10, 2009

Washington -- Ready or not, here comes Windows 7. Although the release of the successor to Windows Vista isn't due out in final form until later this year, Microsoft wants you to start thinking about Windows 7 now - and maybe even to start using it.

The company announced this week that the public beta of Windows 7 will be released ahead of schedule. As with previous public betas, anyone will be able to download and try out Windows 7, and judging from the high level of interest in the new operating system, lots of people will want to.

The Post-Bulletin

by Debi Neville

January 10, 2009

Don't throw caution to the wind when ordering merchandise online. It's a good piece of advice, but one that many people ignore, according to Tim Klatt, owner of Computer Smartz in Rochester, and Jesse Cofske, senior technician at Computer Smartz.

Large, well-known companies, such eBay and Amazon, are your best bet when buying online. Their sites are safe, and so is your information. "If you are not familiar with the company, it could be a scam, so don't use them," Klatt said.

hid.xiom.com

January 27, 2009

Websense reports that my.barackobama.com, an open blogging service which is part of Obama's campaign web site has been used to point users to malware infecting content.

The scam is a good example of the dangers of Web 2.0 user generated content and mashups. There was no malicious code on the Obama's site, however an allowed HTML code looking like a YouTube embedded flick pointed to an external site which carried the malware.

Reuters

by Andrea Shalal-Esa

January 30, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 35-year-old computer programer pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he planted a computer virus designed to destroy all the data on 4,000 Fannie Mae computer servers the day he was fired.

Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, an Indian citizen who had been working as a contractor employee at Fannie Mae's facility in Urbana, Maryland, was indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury for computer intrusion. If convicted, Makwana faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

      

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