Archive for December, 2008

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7th December Comments

Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open Source Software

Posted on December 7th, 2008 at 6:22 am

  After the tech bubble burst, E*Trade’s technology chief, Lee Thompson, needed to find a way to do more with less. In 2001 and 2002, the online stock trading company shrank its tech budget by one-third. "We had to go through and figure out every penny that we were spending and make alternatives to reduce [...]

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5th December Comments

Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware

Posted on December 5th, 2008 at 7:12 am

Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users. The malware, which BitDefender dubbed “Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A” sits in Firefox’s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender’s lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started. The malware uses JavaScript to identify more [...]

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