Archive for April, 2008

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11th April Comments

Top Botnets Control Some 1 Million Hijacked Computers

Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am

Puskas writes “Joe Stewart is the director of malware research at SecureWorks, and presented a dire view of the current botnet landscape at the RSA conference this week. He conducted a survey of the top spamming ‘nets, extrapolating their size from the volume of emails that flow across the internet. By his calculations, the top [...]

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11th April Comments

Gartner: Windows is collapsing

Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 6:13 am

SAO PAOLO, Brazil–At a Las Vegas conference on Thursday, Gartner analysts warned that Windows is in danger of collapsing, according to a report in ComputerWorld. Upon reading that, I wondered how this could have happened in the 10 days I have been traveling around Latin America. Although Microsoft faces challenges from Linux and piracy here, [...]

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10th April Comments

Experts Hack Power Grid in Less Than a Day

Posted on April 10th, 2008 at 7:57 am

“Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day. Ira Winkler, a penetration-testing consultant, says he and a team of other experts took a day to set up attack tools they [...]

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9th April Comments

Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15

Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

“One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec’s Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone’s ‘full identity’ is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more [...]

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9th April Comments

Who trumps bin Laden as a cyberthreat? Look in the mirror

Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 7:15 am

SAN FRANCISCO–It turns out al-Qaida’s leader and his cohorts aren’t the biggest threat to our cybersecurity. You are. Six years ago, Osama bin Laden represented the nightmare scenario for the computer security establishment. But more immediate cyberdangers lurk on the horizon. Experts attending the RSA conference that began here today say it’s you–Mr. & Mrs. [...]

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9th April Comments

Ralink Wireless Woes Explored in Linux

Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 6:17 am

A lot of people have been reporting issues with Ralink (rt61, especially) chipsets and the Gutsy upgrade. Some users are struggling so much that they have gone ahead and reverted to using NDISWrapper and the Windows driver for their Ralink chipsets. Guess what – I’m typing this article in Open Office, on Gutsy using an [...]

Posted in Linux, Wireless

7th April Comments

Yes, i am on the road

Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

As some of you know I am cruising the great white north and will be away from the house for who knows how long, but if you need me there is always e-mail or my cell if it is a major item. I will post pics if there is ever a moose sighting, yeah right [...]

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7th April Comments

New Botnet Dwarfs Storm

Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am

ancientribe writes “Storm is no longer the world’s largest botnet: Researchers at Damballa have discovered Kraken, a botnet of 400,000 zombies — twice the size of Storm. But even more disturbing is that it has infected machines at 50 of the Fortune 500, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. [...]

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5th April Comments

Gates: Microsoft Windows 7 Sometime Next Year

Posted on April 5th, 2008 at 6:18 am

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released “sometime in the next year or so”. The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating system software that powers the majority of the world’s personal computers. Nevertheless, [...]

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4th April Comments

80,000 job losses, unemployment spikes

Posted on April 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am

Employers slash jobs for third straight month while unemployment jumps to 5.1%, a nearly three-year high. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — U.S. employers slashed jobs for the third straight month in March and unemployment rose to a nearly three-year high, offering the latest signs that the economy has fallen into a recession. And once again Bush [...]

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