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Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild

Social Engineering?According the the Symantic press releasehttp://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14463/symantec-threat-bulletin-trojan-peskyspy-recording-skype-voip-conversation"The Trojan is detected by Symantec as Trojan.Peskyspy and can be downloaded to a computer by way of tricking the user with an E-mail scam or other social engineering tactic....The Trojan is targeting Windows API hooks, a technique used to alter the planned behavior...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., trojan horse, Source Code Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild

Earlier this week, Swiss programmer Ruben Unteregger who has been reportedly working for a Swiss company ERA IT Solutions responsible for coding government sponsored spyware, has released the source code of a trojan horse that injects code into the Skype process in order to convert the incoming and outgoing voice...

Tags: Trojan Horse, Skype Technologies S.A., Source Code Corp., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-28

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

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears

As Microsoft gets set to launch Windows 7,  Linux desktop vendors are trying to make some waves. Yesterday, IBM and Canonical announced availability of a cloud and Linux-based business desktop alternative for existing PCs or low cost netbooks. The IBM Client for Smart Work...

Tags: Ubuntu, Fedora Project, SuSE, IBM Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, E-mail, Web Browsers, Software, Online Communications, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Corporate open source is more vulnerable

RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel so much better now that the government is moving toward open source.'Nuff said.RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel the title of this article is misleading. Vulnerable how? When discussing computing vulnerability usually refers to the security of the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Corporate open source, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Cutting software maintenance costs 101agreedI am no fan of vendors charging clients for unused products. Many clients of mine have taken this for granted, although they certainly haven't like it. Good suggestions, Larry.Drop your maintenance after 1 yearIt makes no sense to have a 18% maintenance contract on an MRP...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Groupware, E-Room, open source, software maintenance, Microsoft SharePoint, software

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicit

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicitWhat's the difference?You state: "While introducing his bill Rockefeller did not mention Medsphere, whose software is installed at many state hospitals. Instead he focused on the Veteran Administration?s VistA system, and the NHIN-Connect system for linking medical records installed by Harris Corp., which includes...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, open source, Rockefeller, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.

One of the things to remember about the Associated Press is that it's run by newspaper executives, those same decision-makers who largely resisted the influence of technology on their business models and are now dealing with the fallout of layoffs, bankruptcies and complete closures because of it. ...

Tags: Web, Associated Press, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Microsoft’s Ballmer on buying the New York Times: "No. Not 'no comment.' No."

[caption id="attachment_14943" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Source: Pentagram"][/caption] The chief executive of the world’s largest personal computer software firm and sixth most visited site on the Web said he had no interest in acquiring The New York Times or other leading print brands, as a way of distinguishing either...

Tags: Search Business, Steve Ballmer, New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp., Web Portal, Portals, Web Technology, Search, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-19

When will enterprises contribute to open source?

When will enterprises contribute to open source?But where is open source AIX or DB2?ntEnterprises do contribute to open sourceWhen collaboration saves paying staff at each of the participating companies, then they collaborate. That's on products no customer is expected to buy, or which would be prohibitively expensive for one...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Why aren

Why arenIt should at least be in the datacenter.I have worked in public ed at one of the largest districts in the country. Open source should have easily been in the data center but it wasn't and I'll tell you why.No real study was done when there came a time...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., administrator, open source

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

Microsoft releases source code under an Apache license

Microsoft releases source code under an Apache licenseAnti MS zealots bashing this in 3... 2... 1...I win $20 if anyone mentions embrace, extend, extinguish. :)Pay us to use technology, we need to feed the greedy.Anyone who buys a single word of anything from Microsoft is ultimately just a dumb consumer.Anyone...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Apache Software Foundation, MEDIOCRITY, Microsoft Corp., F/OSS

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

How open should your open source business strategy be

How open should your open source business strategy beCreate your own network effect ...... and you can grow and shrink as necessary.There's a huge market out there of people who just want their computer to f***ing work.If you're prepared to stick a second hard drive in peoples machines and dual...

Tags: open-source business strategy, open source, strategy

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we're afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?

Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move

LAS VEGAS -- Starting in October, Microsoft will start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of Patch Tuesday under a daring new program aimed at reducing the window of exposure to hacker attacks. The new Microsoft Active Protections Program MAPP, which will be formally...

Tags: Vulnerability, Security Company, Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-05

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