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Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks

Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacksYeah he reminds me....Of an Apple fanboy. All fluff no substance. LOOK EVERYONE!!@#@!!! HE MENTIONS ME AGAIN!!@#@!This guy is starting to become my biggest fan! :) Some of you others are having some competition now.Let's wait for Loverock to postsome...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware, Mac Botnet, software, Apple Macintosh, illicit software, distributed denial of service, Mac-user, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

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Mobile Parental Controls & Monitoring 8.2.3 (Mobile)

With children and adolescents downloading and installing their own software onto mobile devices, control over these applications presents a growing challenge to parents. Many third party applications such as Instant Messaging, VOIP, and P2P file sharing can introduce new security threats, and expose underage users to illicit, inappropriate, or illegal...

Tags: Security, Mobile, Parental Control, SMobile Systems, SMobile, Security Shield Client Application, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-19

China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch

China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patchThe problem with backdoor softwareis the danger somebody else will discover your back door and use it.What was that about copyright infringement, again?[i]"?It is not responsible to crack somebody?s software and publish the details, which are commercial secrets, on...

Tags: Patches, Chinese People, Chinese Government, Green Dam, security flaw, patch, security

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks

Back in January pirated versions of iWork '09 being shared on P2P networks were discovered to contain a trojan horse called "iWorkServices." The author of the malware did his thing by adding a malicious binary to the trial version of the software package. ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Malware, Distributed Denial Of Service, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case

Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay caseNapster only "made available" copyrighted works, too......and they were found guilty.RE: Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay caseMy goodness. The number of charges is getting smaller each day this farce continues. I think the only reason they're continuing it on...

Tags: Ineptitude, Pirate Bay, TPB

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fire

Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fireDon't forget the cellphone spyware 'solutions'FlexiSPY and MobileSpy are two such companies. They do the same thing and market their software the same way - spouseware.Too many AV vendors whitelisting these toolsWe had a situation a couple of months ago where forensic traffic analysis...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Image Analyzer Harnesses Intel Tools to Optimize Its Software for Intel Multi-Core Architecture

Image Analyzer is a robust, real-time software application that inspects digital images for illicit content, such as commercial pornography. Image Analyzer engineers turned to Intel software tools to optimize their application for better performance on these multi-core systems. Two software updates were delivered following the code tune-up, resulting in a...

Tags: Software, Multi-core, Tool, Intel Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2008-11-01

Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals

Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...

Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare

New York State's governor, Eliot Spitzer, got caught in a prostitution probe largely because of financial reporting rules emphasized in the post 9/11 era. As described by Larry Dignan: [W]hat really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged ...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Business, Money, Eliot Spitzer, New York State, Launderer, Malefactor, Financial Services, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Comcast%3A+BitTorrent+blocking+is+a+good+thing

Comcast%3A+BitTorrent+blocking+is+a+good+thingYep. Enjoy your COMCASTIC experience at ...DOCSIS 1.1 levels, a technology that has been around since 1999. Where were the upgrades to 2.0 (around since 2001) and the latest 3.0 (around since 2006). Comcast as NOT used "good faith and judgement" by their network engineers. They need to be FIRED...

Tags: INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), Connection Speed, Comcast Corp., network

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

War of words over alleged Firefox vulnerability

War of words over alleged Firefox vulnerabilityInteresting...I don't know, but I suspect...I suspect the Mozilla guy is right this time. Since the just-fixed vulnerability dealt with exactly this issue, I find it hard to believe that the team did not test this very thing. I am betting that...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Ryan, vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Should AT

Should ATChild PornographyI think this a great step forward to get rid of the scumbags who store, profit and share Child Pornography on the Internet. Any company who is willing to take on that responsibility, reporting their findings with the Authorities, supporting with their technology should be highly rewarded and...

Tags: ATT, AT&T Corp., child pornography

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

The shrinking planet and YouTube

Some kid in Australia is getting the kind of press that major movie studios would pay millions to acquire, all because he threw a party while his parents were out of town that got a "bit" out of hand. As a teenager, I threw parties when my parents were out...

Tags: Barrier, Australia, Movie, YouTube Inc., Party, Sovereignity, Globalization, Strategy, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse your files?

Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse your files?I'll leave it to others...To argue about the content. I do have a question, though...How do you test a DVD burner by "Searching for video files to play" ?Something is fishy here...It's just a matter of giving up your rights...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Consumer electronics, DVD, bedroom, Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuitcity, privacy, radio

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Insecurity blues

Insecurity bluesGreat articleThank you, Jeremy, for open and instructive account, from which one can learn. Really done in the open source spirit.Code snippetIt would have been interesting to have a read your code snippet with your comments on how the exploit buffer overrun succeeded.For example, on a parameter pass and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, bad guy, security

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Will Apple miss the virtualization boom?

Virtualization is the hot tech topic right now. However, some enterprise Mac watchers are worried that Apple's policy of keeping Mac OS X tied to Apple hardware is keeping OS X not just in left field but totally out of the game. Of course, this discussion isn't...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Virtualization, Apple Inc., John Rizzo, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Web 2.0: New risks, new rewards

Web 2.0: New risks, new rewardsHogWashThis author doesn't get it. "new pipelines for information leakage and corporate compliance violations" what the?Lets put this into perspective. When Times Magazine selected its person of the year it marked the end of the good-old-boy way of doing business. Today's US work force is...

Tags: risk, Web 2.0, security, Web

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Is Office 2007 a case against Linux?

Have you used Office 2007 yet? Its quite a bit different from Office 2000 and 2003, but, in my opinion, its a pretty spectacular leap forward. This has been well-document elsewhere, but is quite a shift that the blogosphere cant quite capture as well as first-hand use. ...

Tags: Microsoft, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-23

New Harris Poll: Vista awareness up

New Harris Poll: Vista awareness upAwareness and SalesSales are down because awareness is up, not in spite of it.There are many reviews that describe an OS that is unstable, paranoid, and unremarkable. There is resentment over a 6 year wait and 6 billion dollar investment in an OSX knockoff. There...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), individual experience, sales, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

Did Apple install a rootkit in Apple TV?

Did Apple install a rootkit in Apple TV?I highly doubt itAs suggested in the comments at the site you linked to, it's more likely a nightly cron job that checks system files and is resets them if they're "corrupted".Responsible PublishingMaybe it would be a good idea to find out the...

Tags: Rootkits, Apple Inc., rootkit, Apple TV, TV

Discussion threads 2007-03-29