The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert for an e-mail scam targeting holiday travelers, warning that malware authors are using clever social engineering tactics to hijack Windows computers. In the e-mail scam, users get a .zip file attached to a message about an airline ticket and an ominous mention [...]
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With the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States announcing last week that the U.S. has officially been in recession since Dec. 2007, IT budgets are highly likely to be strictly controlled both in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. I had a conversation with a friend over the [...] A reporter picked up a used Blackberry in the massive liquidation of the McCain campaign holdings. It turns out that someone forgot to wipe the contents of the Blackberry’s memory. When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for [...] The attack surface for password-stealing Trojans currently targeting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has expanded to include all versions of the browser, including the newest IE 8 Beta 2. Microsoft released an updated advisory to warn that the underlying flaw affects much more than IE 7 and to spread the word about additional [...] |
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