Anyway, help me stay on the straight and narrow and keep updating. :)
Thanks go out to Gary Warner for alerting us to this bogus presedential speech malware being spammed out right now. "A very prevalent spam campaign promising a chance to view Obama's
acceptance speech is leading instead to keylogger malware that sends the stolen keystrokes to the Ukraine."
http://isc.sans.org/diary.
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/
http://www.avertlabs.com/
http://www.darkreading.com/
Bank of Ireland employee loses USB stick containing customer details
The personal information of almost 900 customers has been lost by an employee of Bank of Ireland.
Brazilian embassy in India website compromised
The Brazilian embassy in India website has been compromised with malicious code
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/
Opera patches vulnerabilities
Opera has patched a vulnerability which is has deemed to be 'highly critical'.
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/
Identity theft keeps police, researchers occupied
Derek Manky, security researcher at Fortinet Inc., discusses phishing and identity theft and explains the current threats from online organized crime and social networking sites.
http://searchsecurity.
Even more RPC worms for Windows hole
Currently, two "real" worms exploit the Windows hole in the server service. One of them also spreads via P2P networks. The malware discovered last week wasn't a real worm as it didn't include any distribution routines
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/
BotHunter tracks down zombie PCs on a LAN
The new version 1.0.1 supports dynamic updates to permit faster rules updates for identifying botnet communications
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/
Pfizer Accused of Using U.S. Workers to Train Foreign Replacements
Pfizer's outsourcing contract with Infosys Technologies and Satyam Computer Services means job losses for IT workers in Connecticut. Many U.S.-based contractors are complaining that they are being asked to train H-1B workers who will soon replace them.
AMD Slashes Another 500 Jobs to Save Costs
Advanced Micro Devices, which has been struggling to regain its financial standings for nearly two years, announced that it would cut another 500 jobs as its looks to “breakeven” by the start of 2009.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/
FCC Approves Sprint-Clearwire WiMax Deal
The $14.5 billion merger between Sprint's Xohm division and Clearwire's broadband operations clears the final regulatory hurdle. Sprint and Clearwire's 4G WiMax bet has drawn investments from heavy hitters Intel, Google, Comcast and Time Warner.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/
Minus Succor From Google, Yahoo is Still Open to a Deal With Microsoft
Under fire since failing to come to terms with Microsoft on an acquisition for Yahoo, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang braves the crowd at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Nintendo: Why the Wii Won't Get a Price Cut
In an interview with the Japanese website Touch-DS (via Kotaku), Nintendo president Satoru Iwata had some interesting things to say about hardware price drops.
http://www.extremetech.com/
Hackers jailbreak T-Mobile's Googlephone
Hackers have managed to jailbreak T-Mobile's new G1 phone by exploiting a gaping loophole in Android, the open source operating system supplied by Google.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Pentagon spends $442m on 'multiple kill' space interceptors
The US Missile Defence Agency has assigned a further $442m for work on "multiple kill vehicles", designed to let a single American interceptor rocket destroy several orbital targets. The multi-kill capability is seen as vital if the nascent US missile shield is ever to become a credible defence.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Microsoft's 'M' treads on US veterans' toes
Microsoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's software for one of its fledgling products
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Windows 7: One compatibility label, no confusion
Microsoft is reducing its four Windows-compatible logos, responsible for confusion and a class action lawsuit, down to a single system for consumers and partners.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Doctor debuts field-tested brainwave comms kit
The designer of a high-tech system allowing brain-damaged people to communicate and perform physical tasks through the power of thought has claimed to be the first able to successfully test it on such patients.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/
Sony pitches blue-laser Compact Disc revival
Sony failed to tune the masses into its better-than-Compact-Disc format, Super Audio CD, so it's having another go, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray Disc.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/
SanDisk to cut 15 per cent of its staff
SanDisk is making 15 per cent of its 3,000-strong world-wide workforce redundant as it struggles to cut costs. That means 450 people are heading out of the door.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
US admiral wants pain-rayguns for Gulf fleet
A US admiral has called for American warships operating in the Middle East to be equipped with microwave "pain ray" cannons to avoid using overwhelming lethal force.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously
Microsoft has confirmed that there will be a widespread public beta of Windows 7 in early 2009, while urging device manufacturers to start immediate testing with its pre-beta release to avoid the widespread hardware compatibility problems that contributed so much to the negative perception of Vista. 'There is not another WinHEC planned before Windows 7 is released,' Microsoft has warned them.
http://apcmag.com/microsoft_
Microbial Life on the Moon?
One astrobiologist claims the deep, dark craters on the Moon might contain traces of early life from meteorites blasted off the Earth by asteroids billions of years ago.
http://www.universetoday.com/
MySpace MyAds Product A $50 Million Business A Month After Launch
MySpace’s self service display ad product, called MyAds, officially launched on October 12, less than a month ago. Advertisers can bypass the normal sales routine, use a Flash tool to create their own display ads, and run them on a cost-per-click basis. The minimum CPC rate is $0.25.
MySpace To Distribute Ashton Kutcher’s Blah Girls
When Ashton Kutcher launched his animated show Blah Girls at TechCrunch50 earlier this year, he ran into MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe in the hallways. DeWolfe expressed interest in the show. Fast forward two months, and Blah Girls now has a distribution deal with MySpaceTV, which had 51 million unique video streams in August (Comscore).
http://www.techcrunch.com/
LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff
We’ve just heard from LinkedIn that the Sequoia-backed business network will be cutting 36 of 370 employees, or around 10% of the company. LinkedIn is saying that some of these employees will be reassigned to new roles (though the company won’t comment on how many new roles there will be).
http://www.techcrunch.com/
Dark matter may be shining a light
The mysterious substance dark matter could be shining with its own kind of light. While this "dark radiation" would be invisible to us, it could have visible effects.
Sprint Facing $1.2 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit
The suit claims that the company's early termination fees violate laws in several states as well as the Federal Communications Act.
IBM Unveils Mac Support, Roadmap For Lotus Symphony
The 2009 version calls for 60 new features that included developing the software entirely on version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format and OpenOffice 3.0 code base.
Economic Meltdown Hits Virtualization Provider Egenera
Egenera says it will conserve financial resources by using its hardware vendor partners to market its virtualization products and services.
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Reach Highest Efficiency Ever
Chinese and Swiss researchers announced earlier this week that they have reached the highest efficiency yet for dye-sensitized solar cells (Grätzel cells). The photovoltaic cells are cheaper than silicon-based solar cells, but until this week’s discovery their drawbacks have outweighed their benefits.
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/
Microsoft promises better battery life, faster boot times in Windows 7
Microsoft says that Windows 7 will use less memory and power than Vista does and will start up and shut down more quickly, among other improvements.
Judge may soon spill more Microsoft secrets
A federal judge will soon rule on whether to make public more Microsoft Corp. confidential information in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of deceiving consumers during its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing program, a court document showed.
MobileMe stumbles again, goes dark for nearly 7 hours
Even though Apple Inc. recently upgraded the back-end infrastructure of its problem-plagued MobileMe, the online service was offline for nearly seven hours on Monday, according to a Web uptime-measurement company.
After laptop theft, Baylor Health warns of possible data compromise
HealthTexas Provider Network Inc., a subsidiary of Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System, is notifying about 7,400 patients of the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a laptop containing the data was stolen in September.
Indian outsourcing industry jittery after Obama win
India's outsourcing industry is privately a little jittery after Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election. But there is the expectation in industry circles that in the end, economic pragmatism will prevail.
Hackers make crack in Android defences
Hackers have cracked controls in the Google Android operating system, used on T Mobile's GI phone. The hack gives users a way to read data on parts of the phone that are normally walled off and could be used to install new programs, or even a new operating syste
http://www.techworld.com/
Windows 7 demonstrated on netbook
Operating system run on Asus machine.
http://www.techworld.com/
WPA cracked for the first time
Wi-Fi security breached by researchers.
http://www.techworld.com/
Apple outlines shift in strategy, rise in R&D spending, more
Apple in its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday outlined a number of new metrics on the company's business strategy, its retail operations, R&D investment, Snow Leopard-releated expenditures, worldwide operations, and more.
Apple delays entry MacBook Air untill after Thanksgiving
Apple is apologizing to customers this week who had placed orders for its new entry-level NVIDIA-based MacBook Airs, explaining that due to an unforeseen issue, it's unlikely to deliver those systems until shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Five ways to slim down your Mac OS X install
Ars shows you how to minimize your Mac OS X installation footprint to make the most of limited laptop space.
http://arstechnica.com/
SanDisk claims hundredfold flash speed boost for writes
Flash memory maker SanDisk has announced a technology that it claims will increase write speeds by up to 100 times. The company is also pushing new performance and reliability metrics, which we take a look at.
Warner Bros. to fight China movie piracy with 60¢ downloads
Warner Bros. will begin offering some of its films for online rental in China through Beijing-based Vool. The DRMed rentals will go for as low as $0.60, and are clearly aimed at undercutting the profits of copyright infringers.
Microsoft puts Windows 3.11 for Workgroups out to pasture
After fifteen years and God knows how many copies sold, Windows 3.11 has finally shuffled off this mortal coil for good. As of November 1, it's no longer possible to acquire an embedded license for the now-fully deprecated operating syste
Three Plead Guilty in $2 Million Citibank ATM Caper
Three New Yorkers accused of using hacked Citibank ATM card numbers and PINs to steal $2 million from customer accounts in four months have pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and access device fraud charges.
http://blog.wired.com/
Full Steam Ahead for California's High-Speed Rail
Before the final ballots had even been tallied, high-speed rail advocates in California were getting down to work, laying the foundation for a bullet train that will link San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 2020.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/
Battlestar Galactica Props Hit Auction Block
Break out your frakkin' credit card if you want a piece of Battlestar Galactica. Thousands of props, costumes and set pieces from the intense sci-fi show will be auctioned off in January as the series heads into its final chapter.
http://blog.wired.com/
Brand New Trailer For Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
The biggest question mark hanging over Joss Whedon's challenging new show Dollhouse is how do you explain its premise (about mindwiped puppets for hire) to casual viewers?
http://io9.com/5076901/brand-
US Consumer Bankruptcies up 40% - Over 100,000 in October!
First time that personal filings have topped 100,000 in a month since the U.S. Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act took effect. So far this year, consumers have filed more than 880,000 bankruptcy petitions, eclipsing 822,000, the total for all of last year. "Things will only get worse," said Jack Williams, American Bankruptcy Institute
http://www.reuters.com/
Bruckheimer Comments on ‘Pirates 4′, ‘National Treasure 3′, and ‘Lone Ranger’
Well, Bruckheimer sat down with a panel of journalists on the set of ‘Prince of Persia’ to discuss some of this other, upcoming money-makers. He stated that ‘National Treasure 3′ and ‘Pirates 4′ are both in the script phase.
FDA Reports Nationwide Recall of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles due to possible mislabeling. The use of these syringes may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as 2.5 times the intended dose, which may lead to hypoglycemia, serious health consequences, and even death.
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/
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