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* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper It’s true – I’m a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on my laptop. At the time we were primarily testing the NAP functionality [...] [...] After last month’s ruckus made by Microsoft’s out-of-band patch, another threat leveraging the MS08-067 vulnerability was recently reported to have been causing more trouble in the wild. A worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_DOWNAD.A was found to use the MS08-067 vulnerability to propagate via networks. Trend Micro researchers also noticed high traffic on [...] * Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka “mash-up”) possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content… A Web adapted to today’s powerful machines, linking people together in world without borders, where information, pictures, videos, music, news and thoughts travel [...] Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a U.S. federal court in San Jose late last week. [...] “Committing cybercrime around the Christmas tree” has always been a tradition for malicious attackers introducing new ways to scam the millions of online shoppers during the holidays. This Christmas isn’t going to be an exception, but what has changed compared last couple of years is the tone of the Xmas promotions already circulating across various [...] |
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