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Week in Geek: Slain Kelihos Botnet Resurrected, Spewing Spam Once Again |
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Written by Asian Angel
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 06:00 |
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FG_AUTHORS: Asian Angel
Our first edition of WIG for February is filled with news link goodness covering topics such as Google’s $660,000 French fine for offering Google Maps for free, the EFF’s plans to help users retrieve their MegaUpload data, Firefox 11 Beta gets add-on sync, and more.
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“Slain” Kelihos botnet still spams from beyond the graveA botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per day has been confirmed resurrected—more than four months after Microsoft celebrated its untimely demise.
Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt. Still Infected with DNSChanger TrojanMore than two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies, new research shows.
Hackers stole data from VeriSign in 2010Attackers repeatedly hacked VeriSign’s network and stole information in 2010, the company revealed in a quarterly regulatory filing.
Hacker extracts RFID credit card detailsThe widespread use, especially in US credit cards, of RFID chips which can be read through clothing or wallets for contactless payments can lead to cards being read without the owners knowledge or permission.
HTC patching Wi-Fi password leak on several smartphonesSome HTC smartphone users may find their Wi-Fi passwords and other information exposed due to a new bug, but the company is rolling out a fix.
Google now scanning Android apps for malwareGoogle has added an automated scanning process that is designed to keep malicious apps out of the Android Market, the company announced this past Thursday.
Dubious Android apps may not be malware–just adsSymantec may have mistakenly labeled more than a dozen Android apps as malware, according to security researchers at Verizon-affiliated ICSA Labs.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, PayPal go after phishers with new e-mail authentication effortMajor e-mail providers, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! are teaming up with PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, to implement a new system for authenticating e-mail senders to try to prevent the sending of fraudulent spam and phishing messages.
European Commission turns antitrust lens on SamsungThe patent battle between Apple and Samsung has just taken a very interesting turn.
EU officials want Google to suspend privacy policy changeEuropean Union officials have asked Google to refrain from implementing its plans to share user information across all of its services until the privacy implications can be analyzed, but Google is standing its ground.
Google’s response on new privacy policy ticks off congresswomanGoogle apparently isn’t making any friends in Congress after a hearing yesterday on the company’s new privacy policy.
Google must pay $660,000 for offering Google Maps for freeYou may like that Google Maps is free, but a French court says it’s actually anticompetitive.
Firefox 11 to get add-on syncFirefox 11 beta presages some hefty changes for the browser. The biggest one, which wasn’t present in the Firefox 11 Aurora release, is add-on sync.
Mozilla preps the Web to pushMozilla engineers have begun work on a new API for Web sites that will allow them to notify you when they update, similar to how a mobile app notifies you that it has new content for you to check out.
Firefox stable PPA abandoned, rapid release cycle adopted for Ubuntu 10.04 and +Due to the release of Firefox 10 that is to replace Firefox 3.6.x (on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), the Firefox stable PPA will be abandoned. Furthermore Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 users will be migrated to the latest Firefox version, and will track the rapid releases going forward, as is currently done in newer releases of Ubuntu.
Microsoft touts plugin-free web, offers desktop fallback for Flash loversMicrosoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins in the Metro environment. But Microsoft has revealed a method that plugin-dependent websites can use to leap over Metro’s walls and reach the green fields of the conventional Windows desktop, where Flash is still allowed to roam free.
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice forkGoing forward, IBM will be putting its efforts behind the Apache Foundation’s OpenOffice instead of its own OpenOffice fork.
Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop? (Review)Can a back to the past Linux desktop win more fans than GNOME 3.x, KDE 4.x, or Ubuntu’s Unity or HUD?
Ten year support for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat has announced that it intends to maintain versions 5 and 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution for ten years, rather than the previously planned seven.
EFF To Aid Users in Retrieving MegaUpload DataThe Electronic Frontier Foundation, supported by Carpathia Hosting, announced this past Wednesday its plans to assess the scope of the issue facing Megaupload users who are at risk of losing their data.
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