Authorities continue their campaign to catch people involved in a spate of denial-of-service attacks against companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks. – The FBI executed 40 search warrants across the country Jan. 27 as part of an
ongoing investigation into distributed denial-of-service attacks launched in quot;Operation
Payback. quot;
The raids came the same day U.K. authorities
arrested five people believed to be tied to the loosely affiliate…
IDC said Apple’s iAd advertising platform has corralled 21 percent of the mobile ad market in its short life in 2010, tying Google and AdMob together. Others aren’t so sure of the split. –
Apple iAd was only launched in July but at
least one industry analyst believes the platform has been so successful that it
equals Google’s mobile ad revenue share.
IDC analyst Karsten Weide said that Apple iAd
comprises 21 percent of mobile ad sales, tying Google’s own 21 percent of
revenues …
Microsoft confirms that the Blue Screen of Death error reported by some Windows XP users last week is caused by a known rootkit, not flaws in a Windows security patch.
– Microsoft has confirmed that
the Blue Screen of Death issue reported
last week on Windows machines is caused by a rootkit.
According to Microsoft,
Windows systems infected with Alureon were hit with Blue Screen of Death errors
that prevented computers from booting after the user downloaded Micr…
Credit unions have long enjoyed a solid reputation for providing quality member servicetypically scoring higher satisfaction ratings than banks. A recent report on consumer behavior offers good news for credit unions seeking to grow and retain membership. When it comes to keeping customers, its service, not price, that keeps consumers loyal.
Osama bin Laden is an iconic figure among extremists who must be captured or killed in order to defeat Al Qaeda, the top US commander in Afghanistan said on Tuesday. “I don’t think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he’s captured or killed,” General Stanley McChrystal told
Allies of a political clan linked to the bloody massacre of at least 57 people last week rallied to their defence in the lawless southern Philippines on Sunday. About a dozen mayors and other local officials from three provinces – all allies of the powerful Ampatuan family – met with regional
Police in the U.K. arrested two people tied to the Zeus Trojan, a notorious piece of malware used to steal banking information and another personal data such as passwords for sites like Facebook.
– Authorities in the
U.K.have reportedly arrested two people in connection with using a notorious Trojan in a scheme to steal online banking information.
The man and the woman, both 20, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in
Manchesterfor violating the 1990 Computer Misuse Act a…
A report by Click Forensics links a growing amount of click fraud to botnets. The increase in botnet-related activity follows an overall upsurge in click fraud in the third quarter of 2009.
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New research from Click Forensics shows botnets are playing a growing role in the spread of click fraud.
Click fraud is a scheme when a person, automated script or
computer program mimicks a legitimate user clicking on an online ad in
order to profit from a pay-per-click arrangement.
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A new report from the SANS Institute, Qualys and TippingPoint underscores the fact that while the number of zero-day bugs is growing, the bigger threat comes from popular client-side applications such as Apple QuickTime and Adobe Reader.
– IT security has less to do with bracing for the inevitable zero-day vulnerability than some outside the industry may think.
Truth be told, the biggest threats facing users and organizations today
are unpatched client-side applications and unsecure Web programs – that
is the message of a …
By maintaining that the regime must be isolated and that Burma must be the target of stringent sanctions only helps the junta reverse further into mad “behind-the-wall” strategies
This latest development may be breaking new boundaries in guilt-by-association political attacks.
The conservative judicial activist group Committee for Justice released an ad on Tuesday connecting Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the ’60s radical a…
