Chinese Windows XP software pirates get jail terms A Chinese court has sentenced four people to jail for pirating Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, China's state-owned media reported on Friday. Read more...
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ERIC SAYS - LOTS OF GOOD INFO IN THIS ARTICLE:
One-in-four hackers runs Opera to ward off other criminals
Hackers using multi-exploit attack "toolkits" take defensive measures of their own against other criminals, a security researcher said today.
"Exploit kit operators do use mainstream browsers, but they're much more likely to use Opera than the average user, because they know that the browser isn't targeted by other hackers," said Paul Royal, a principal security researcher with Atlanta-based Purewire.
While the most generous Web measurements peg Opera, a browser made by Norwegian company Opera Software, at a 2% share of the global market, 26% of the hackers who Purewire identified use the far-from-popular application.
Because of its small market share, few hackers bother to unleash exploits for Opera vulnerabilities, said Royal.
Purewire obtained this insight, and others, by infiltrating hackers' systems using a bug in the analytics software included with a pair of hacker toolkits, notably one dubbed "LuckySploit," said Royal. "We forged a 'refer' field and put in a little JavaScript," he explained, "and that revealed the hackers to us via their IP addresses."
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Judge: Defunct airport fast pass company can't sell customer data
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Swine flu battle moves to cyberspace AFP – Wed Aug 19, 4:10 pm ET
AFP
THE HAGUE (AFP) - The clock is ticking, people are dying and a flu virus is sweeping the globe -- that is the scenario of a new computer game designed to make people think about how to respond to the swine flu pandemic.
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Your Web Browser Knows Where You Are
Firefox and Safari on the iPhone can now report your physical location. But who are they telling?
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Eight Indicted For $22M Identity Theft Scam Against AT&T, T-Mobile
Aug 20,2009
Defendants allegedly hijacked customers' identities to steal millions of dollars in wireless gear
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Tech Insight: SQL Injection Demystified
Aug 21,2009
Attackers are using the old standby SQL injection en masse -- a look at the attack and how to protect your applications from it
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Botmaster: It's All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots
Aug 20,2009
Undercover Cisco researcher told the going rate for a single bot is 10- to 25 cents
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Rare Malware A Hint Of Threats To Come
Aug 19,2009
Researchers are spotting new forms of malware features that could signal a new generation of harder-to-kill badware
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Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates
August 20, 8:07 p.m. UTC - by Jacqui Cheng Posted in: The Web
More employers than ever are researching job candidates on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter in order to find out more about their activities and character. And, it turns out, many candidates are doing a great job of showing their potential bosses poor communication skills, inappropriate pictures, and even how many workplace secrets they can leak.
Read more
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VMware patches holes in its products
A hole in the libpng allows crafted images to infiltrate and execute code in VMware products more…
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Gartner Tells Reporter: You're Not Allowed To Mention Gartner Research Without Our Permission
Rich Kulawiec alerts us to the news that Gartner (which absolutely should know better) sent a legal nastygram to a Network World blogger, Larry Chaffin, for the mortal sin of mentioning Gartner without Gartner's permission. Specifically, Gartner is claiming full control over its research reports, and saying that a reporter cannot quote them. Gartner is almost certainly wrong about this. If the information is newsworthy (and it sounds like it was), then a reporter absolutely has the right to post it. Also, Gartner seems confused about how all of this works. It first claims that posting such info was a violation of its own policy... but it's a policy that Chaffin had not agreed to.
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The PhilosophyOf Dogs
By ROBERT KAHN
Dogs are better philosophers than humans, of course. Dogs know how to be happy. Show me a happy philosopher.
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"Dirtiest" websites host average 18,000 threats
Angela Moscaritolo August 20, 2009
The most dangerous websites on the web propagate an average of 18,000 different pieces of malware.
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Malware designed to steal IDs increased 600 percent
Greg Masters August 20, 2009
The number of users victimized by malware specifically intended to rob personally identifiable information leapt 600 percent this year.
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Phishing apps found on Facebook
Chuck Miller August 20, 2009
A new round of rogue Facebook applications sends notifications that lead users to phishing sites.
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Former Chinese nationalist hacker causes international incident
An international controversy has broken out over an article he published on one of his websites called, the China International Strategy Net. In the article, Kang suggests that India can be removed as a competitor by intentionally encouraging separatists to bring about the collapse of the state. The statements caused such an uproar that the Indian government was forced to issue a statement saying that the relationship between China and India was peaceful.
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