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Mobile malware trick: Give users real apps, plus infection on the side

Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:29 pm

Unlike in most other malware markets, malware writers aiming at Android have always had a strong profit motive. Now they're going even more capitalist -- delivering the value they promised by wrapping good code in malware rather than just pretending
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Why cloud security is still a top concern for IT

Posted May 22, 2012 - 8:11 pm

Three quarters of cloud users don't do their own security on external clouds, according to a recent survey that shows IT's biggest worry about the cloud may be its own fault.
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Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage

Posted May 22, 2012 - 12:00 am

IT has been shoved to the side in many businesses in which business unit managers can get the technology they want with an Internet connection and a credit card, not a project-management team and a bunch of whiney geeks from IT.
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IEEE specs way to turn body into a network

Posted May 21, 2012 - 3:55 pm

IEEE released the body area networking specification it has been working on since 2008. The spec is designed to work with Bluetooth, not replace it. How long can Bluetooth last against a competitor with better security, reliability and a sexier name (IEEE 802.15.6-2012)?
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Cell-phone snoopers: Privacy Eliminator turns police Do Want to Shouldn't Have

Posted May 18, 2012 - 5:10 pm

You have to admit the new generation of data-collection devices able to copy every byte of data from cell phones without even delaying the traffic ticket that became an excuse to steal personal data without a warrant. Cool, but still 3D, physical proof that come technology is so efficient it shouldn't be available even to (especially not to cops)
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Courts quash copyright trolls; recognize IP address is not a person

Posted May 16, 2012 - 2:35 pm

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a very little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous
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Where did 'cloud' come from?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:30 pm

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)
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Gaming merit badge to help churn out next gen of FPS designers

Posted May 11, 2012 - 7:05 pm

Every Scout trying for the new Game Design merit badge will want to build COD:Black Ops. Most will bail on electronic games for lack of programming skills; only a a few will realize what they really want is to spend their adulthood inventing great computer games.
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Overheated vote-counter automates election, places 60K votes itself

Posted May 10, 2012 - 1:48 pm

A relatively simple machine designed to read paper ballots and store the results broke new ground in New York gubernatorial elections by adding tens of thousands of extra votes to those cast by humans after warm polling place caused vote-counter to overheat.
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Tell PirateBay (and lawmakers) what you think about file sharing, piracy

Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:19 pm

The Pirate Bay is teaming up with Swedish researchers who specialize in copyright-, file-sharing and enforcement on survey designed to provide more objective data than that supplied by RIAA and MPAA to help counter rabid anti-piracy plunder-and-pillage copyright enforcement rules.
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Ancient Microsoft Word malware threat returns from the grave

Posted May 9, 2012 - 11:08 am

The security patch Microsoft distributed yesterday included a comprehensive patch for the flaws exploited by Duqu; more interestingly, it also included fixes to keep poisoned .RTF files from exploiting same weakness as '90s-era Word Macro viruses.
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Euro-virus extorts 'fines' from U.S. users with content-piracy accusations

Posted May 9, 2012 - 10:42 am

A technically savvy gang of East Europeans that has been extorting money from Europeans using 'Police Trojan' ransomware for two years is also responsible for the rush of ransomware in the U.S., after Americanizing its social engineering pitch, according to TrendMicro.
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Caveman DNA proves keeping up with technology is a survival tactic

Posted April 30, 2012 - 5:27 pm

Every geek has been frustrated with those who refuse to upgrade to something so much better the way they're doing it now that they're obviously cutting their own throats in the name of tradition. Turns out that's a long tradition, too, though its practitioners tend not to be.
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Finding Anonymous in its own images

Posted April 27, 2012 - 1:28 pm

For all its influence, Anonymous is little understood, often even by other Anon. Its nature changes with each group of Anon and few perceptions agree. Many explain the Anonymous they see in pictures that illustrate what they do, why and who they see behind those masks.
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Cloud services, recycled hard drives leak critical data; IT doesn't notice

Posted April 26, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Studies show a third to half of storage drives hold residual data from other users, much of it confidential, some of it enough to allow identity theft. Cloud services widen the hole by making it possible to leave lots of critical data behind with no chance to check whether you did or not.
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Kaspersky warns Apple it needs to be more like Microsoft 10 years ago

Posted April 26, 2012 - 12:04 pm

Ten or 12 years ago Microsoft got its act together on security, churning out fixes quickly, taking aim at new malware and probing its own products for exploitable flaws. The founder of Kaspersky Labs warns Apple it must do the same or lose its market in a plague of malware.
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Google can do anything it wants to content you store in Drive

Posted April 25, 2012 - 11:56 am

In its Terms of Service Google is probably trying to reserve the right to change the format of your files so you can get them using a PC, phone or tab. It probably doesn't want co-ownership of your copyright to the content, but that's what its new Terms require.
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Mac botnet may not be shrinking much after all

Posted April 23, 2012 - 11:39 am

Security and anti-virus companies have disagreed all along on how many Macs are infected with the Flashback malware. Dr. Web, which discovered it, claims 650,000; Symantec says 140,000.
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Brain scan predicts mistakes 20 seconds before you make them

Posted April 20, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Research from a computer-scientist at the University of Arizona has defined EEG brain patterns that indicate when the brain is about to slip up on a math problem. The goal is to create systems or help students learn faster by helping keep the mental challenges manageable.
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Malware-infected download knocks last trace of hipster gloss from Instagram

Posted April 19, 2012 - 4:43 pm

Instagram, once the not-very-exclusive artistic vision of the hipster iPhone photographer community, lost most of its shine when it was ported to Android, then sold to Facebook. Fake downloads with Russian malware put it out to pasture for good.
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New Mac malware gets newer; now available from Word docs as well as Java

Posted April 17, 2012 - 10:22 am

Mac users may not want to hear it, but the debut today of a new version of a Trojan whose original version is less than a month old,shows malware writers are much more prompt about updating software for Macs than app developers ever were in porting Windows products to it.
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Source of Apple's malware problem: arrogance, negligence, contempt

Posted April 16, 2012 - 7:57 pm

The Flashback botnet was labeled as the big breakthrough that would make Apple and its users realize malware for the Mac was real. Instead it made clear that, whenever Apple users need it to step up and take responsibility for a major flaw, Apple steps back and points fingers instead.
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Fearing for safety, LulzSec, Anonymous stool pigeon Sabu skips court date

Posted April 12, 2012 - 2:55 pm

Hector 'Sabu" Monsegur, 28, the LulzSec leader who spent months collecting evidence to help the FBI arrest LulzSec and Anonymous contacts said he was too afraid of threats on his life to appear at court to answer charge of impersonating a federal agent.
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FBI wants more modern techniques for torture, interrogation

Posted April 12, 2012 - 2:05 pm

The FBI has a long tradition of Constitution-violating investigatory methods, but it has never been big on actual torture. It is now trying to update methods used for interrogations at Gitmo by asking experts to suggest less-torturous ways to get good answers from bad prisoners.
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Texting can heal broken hearts, raspy lungs or cranky clients

Posted April 11, 2012 - 12:31 pm

Dismissed by many as too shallow to qualify as communication, texting makes many feel as connected as phone calls, and can be better at getting even the sick to clean up their acts.
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