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News to know: Supercomputer programming; Oracle Fusion; Patch day; Inbox 2.0

Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms. SiCortex wins Dev Connection "Sexiest in show" award. Emerging hardware to force drastic changes in programming. George Ou: IBM’s liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer. Gallery right. Dan...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Network, Supercomputer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Programming, European Union, DNS-changing Trojan, Development Tools, Desktops, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Blog posts 2007-11-14

DNS-changing Trojan opens Mac OS X floodgates

DNS-changing Trojan opens Mac OS X floodgatesIt doesn't self-propagate and a user can't be "infected" simply by...It doesn't self-propagate and a user can't be "infected" simply by visiting the website.In short, the trojan is going nowhere.Pure nonsenseThis is a story with no substance...just sensationalism.The user has to go through a...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, trojan horse, Mac OS X floodgate, DNS-changing Trojan, Apple Macintosh, floodgate, Linux, FUD, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

DNS-changing Trojan opens Mac OS X floodgates

Guest Editorial by Gadi Evron "The Mac is going main-stream" is just one of the catch-phrases that we've seen in the past two weeks when reading about the Trojan horse infecting Apple Mac OS X users. This attack has created a lot of controversy...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Trojan Horse, Apple Inc., User, Attack, DNS-changing Trojan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Additional Resources

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Snow Leopard's malware protection only scans for two Trojans

The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans - OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice. Intego, the company that originally reported the new feature, has...

Tags: Trojan Horse, Malware, Apple Inc., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-28

iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36 (Mac)

With iAntiVirus you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your Mac and personal information. iAntiVirus provides free real-time protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your Mac remains safe and virus free. The iAntiVirus database has been designed from the ground up to detect...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, iAntiVirus, iAntiVirus Database, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Security

Software downloads 2009-08-27

New Mac OS X DNS changer spreads through social engineering

TrendMicro is reporting on a newly discovered 4th member of the OSX_JAHLAV malware family. The latest variant is once again relying on social engineering, this time spreading under a QuickTime Player update (QuickTimeUpdate.dmg) with a DNS changer component enabling the malware authors to redirect and monitor the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Malware, Social Engineering, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-11

D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home, small office routers

The imperviousness of the CAPTCHA has a security measure has been hotly debated, but there have been enough compromised network stories in the headlines to prompt D-Link to integrate the technique into its home and small office routers. CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing...

Tags: D-Link Systems, CAPTCHA, Router, Small Office, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Report: Conficker in attack mode

Report: Conficker in attack modeI was concerned.For a moment there I thought this wasn't business as usual.How many companies went under?I wonder how many companies are put out of businessdue to the software flaws in Windows?RE: Report: Conficker in attack mode*yawn*RE: Report: Conficker in attack modeI am dissecting conficker.eIf you...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Conficker, attack mode, virus creator, virus

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payload

Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payloadSo basically......anyone who patched back in October and who doesn't install dodgy files is still OK?Which seems to be about 99%+ of Windows users.This thing is a walk in the parkcompared to the new w32.Virut.nbn variationsit's game over as soon as you catch itnastiest thing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Patches, SECURITY, Conficker, payload

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.35 (Mac)

With iAntiVirus you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your Mac and personal information. iAntiVirus provides free real-time protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your Mac remains safe and virus free. The iAntiVirus database has been designed from the ground up to detect...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, iAntiVirus, iAntiVirus Database, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Security

Software downloads 2009-03-09

DNSChanger Removal Tool 2.0 (Mac)

The DNSChanger Trojan Horse, also known as OSX.RSPlug.A and OSX/Puper, has been found on numerous pornographic websites disguising itself as a video codec. Once downloaded and installed, DNSChanger changes the DNS settings on the computer, redirecting websites entered by the user to malicious sites. If personal information is entered on...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Web Site, Computer, Web Site Development, Productivity, Domain Names, Web Technology, Identity Theft, Networking, Internet, Security

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Why did Microsoft wait 7 years to fix SMBRelay attack flaw?

Why did Microsoft wait 7 years to fix SMBRelay attack flaw?Sour over mis-predicting the patches this month?First off, does anyone proof-read these posts? Multiple typos/grammatical errors make it look like this was rushed out... Anyway.Mentioning the token-kidnapping issue makes me wonder if Ryan is sour that his patch prediction (on...

Tags: SECURITY, Patches, Viruses and worms, anti-MS people, NTLMv2, Admin Access, Microsoft Corp., vulnerability, SMBRelay, SMBRelay attack flaw, Ryan, attack flaw

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

MS ships emergency patch for Windows worm hole

MS ships emergency patch for Windows worm holePatchesMicrosoft catch's a lot of slack but they do a good job of getting patches out there. I haven't had any problems with Windows update in a few years.RE: MS ships emergency patch for Windows worm holewow check out this blog for...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows worm hole, emergency patch, worm hole, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Security is everyone's domain

Guest editorial by George Stathakopoulos In the first half of 2008, Microsoft Corp. released its latest Security Intelligence Report. One of the most interesting statistics involved the results from Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT. Each second Tuesday of every month, the tool...

Tags: Domain, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Ryan Naraine, Security

Blog posts 2008-08-04

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...

Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker

According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...

Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Cyber Defcon 4

I am preparing my next road show pitch. My past presentations have followed a pattern. There is one slide I have been using for seven years now, ever since I joined Gartner as an analyst as a matter of fact. It is the Threat Hierarchy slide. It lists...

Tags: Attack, Security, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-14