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New E-holiday Card Virus Emerges |
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2nd January 2009 - 11:40 - by Arie
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 A new worm has surfaced that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years.
Like the Storm worm, the latest worm, which anti-virus vendor ESET calls W32/Waledac, consists of an e-mail telling recipients they have received an e-holiday card and asking them to click on a link pointing to a file named ecard.exe to read it.
When they do, the link downloads a backdoor that connects to another Web site and downloads information off their PCs, Pierre-Marc Bureau, a researcher at ESET, told InternetNews.com.
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Microsoft Scrambling To Thaw Zune Freeze |
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2nd January 2009 - 11:32 - by Arie
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 The incident is unlikely to help Microsoft gain ground against Apple's iPod, which accounts for about three-quarters of the digital music player market.
A surge of online complaints suggests widespread freezing problems with 30-GB version of Microsoft's Zune music player.
Online forum threads have sprawled to thousands of messages detailing what some Zune users are calling "Zune 2K9," a reference to the Y2K bug based on the as-yet-unconfirmed belief that the freeze is a time- or calendar-related programming flaw.
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Web browser flaw could put e-commerce security at risk |
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2nd January 2009 - 11:17 - by Arie
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 A key piece of Internet technology that banks, e-commerce sites, and financial institutions rely on to keep transactions safe suffers from a serious security vulnerability, an international team of researchers announced on Tuesday.
They demonstrated how to forge security certificates used by secure Web sites, a process that would allow a sufficiently sophisticated criminal to fool the built-in verification methods used by all modern Web browsers--without the user being alerted that anything was amiss.
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Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision |
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30th December 2008 - 13:01 - by Arie
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 U.S. patent application number 20080319910, published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft's vision of a situation where a "standard model" of PC is given away or heavily subsidized by someone in the supply chain.
The end user then pays to use the computer, with charges based on both the length of usage time and the performance levels utilized, along with a "one-time charge."
Microsoft notes in the application that the end user could end up paying more for the computer, compared with the one-off cost entailed in the existing PC business model, but argues the user would benefit by having a PC with an extended "useful life."
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Windows 7 and a Bit of Microsoft Strategy |
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30th December 2008 - 12:57 - by Arie
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 Microsoft announced another life extension for its supposedly retired Windows XP operating system, a sign that, despite almost two years on the market, Windows Vista is far from being preferred.
The cut off date for PC makers to obtain licenses for the software was 31 January 2009. But now Microsoft has put in place a scheme that will allow the hardware firms to get hold of XP licenses until 30 May 2009.
Windows XP was originally due to disappear off shop shelves on 30 January 2008. It was to be removed so as to make way for Windows Vista which went on sale to consumers early in 2007.
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Dell’s Mystery ‘Adamo’ Could Be Thinner Than Air |
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26th December 2008 - 13:19 - by Arie
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 When Apple released the MacBook Air, someone viewed the sleek notebook as an opportunity to make fun of clunky, old Dell on YouTube with a parody ad. But what if Dell is about to have the last laugh in the ultralight laptop race?
A recent dig through Dell’s trademarks turned up a couple of curiosities – “Adamo” and “Adamo by Dell.”According to the documents, the trademarks cover computer hardware, including possibly desktops and laptops.
The whole “Adamo by Dell” bit sounds rather fancy for a company that lumps all of its computers under just a handful of brands. But, apparently, this computer isn’t your regular Dell computer. It has its own Web site after all, which says the product is coming soon.
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Mozilla Updates Firefox but Is Criticized By a Bit9 Report |
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20th December 2008 - 17:21 - by Arie
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 A recent study from Bit9 pointed out that Mozilla’s web browser is prone to various attacks more than any other browser.
The study even noted that Firefox is a major threat to businesses, showing that it doesn’t have a large-network patching system. Bit9 also advocated that Firefox is so vulnerable that the browser it recommended to be deleted from enterprise working stations.
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Toshiba Unveils 512-GB Notebook SSD |
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20th December 2008 - 17:18 - by Arie
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 The company said the product is the first 2.5-inch solid-state drive to achieve a capacity of 512 GB.
The vendor plans to showcase the storage device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The new drive is one of a series of SSDs built with Toshiba's latest 43-nanometer manufacturing process.
The drives also will come in capacities of 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB, which will be available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch enclosures. Samples of the new products will be available in the first quarter of next year, with mass production scheduled for the second quarter. Toshiba did not disclose pricing.
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