Hackers leverage Obama win for massive malware campaign
Hackers have seized on the results of the U.S. presidential election to launch a major malware campaign that tries to trick users into installing an update to Adobe's Flash, but actually plants a Trojan on unprotected PCs, security experts warned Wednesday.
E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse
Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several U.S. states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.
Nov. 4, 2008: What could possibly go wrong?
E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history. But progress has zig-zagged.
Election '08: Tech highs and lows
Technology has played a greater role than ever this election year. And on this US election eve, e-voting security issues remain a concern. In this roundup, some tech highpoints and lowpoints (and funny points too).
E-voting groups are watching a handful of states
"This is an election that will sort of stress-test the [election] systems," said Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines. "Any problem that's going to come up is going to be amplified."
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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