Computerworld – Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe’s Reader, a security researcher said Friday.
IDG News Service – A federal jury found that Novell and Red Hat were innocent of infringing on user interface patents held by IP Innovation LLC.
Search and advertising giant Google is phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in its cloud services, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites, from 1 March.
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is vulnerable to spoofing attacks, according to an Israeli security researcher. Aviv Raff reported on his blog on Wednesday that Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.11 allows information presented in a basic authentication dialogue box to be spoofed, opening up the possibility of users being redirected to a malicious website. Earlier versions of the browser may also be affected.
Its immense popularity may turn the iPhone into a painful experience for Apple, if predictions that the mobile device will be a major security target in 2008 are realised. IT security company Arbor Networks released a statement on Tuesday declaring that the iPhone will be a big target amongst cybercriminals next year.
The latest rootkit in the wild hides on your hard driveâs boot sector and is starting to infect Windows PCs, according to security researchers. And the real kicker: The rootkit canât be detected by most antivirus applications. Symantec has been tracking the latest rootkitâTrojan.Mebrootâand provides a good overview of master boot record (MBR) rootkits. In general, an MBR is the first sector of a storage device, say a hard drive, and is used for booting the operating system. Control the MBR and control the OS.
In-flight entertainment has come a long way since passengers craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the flickering films shown in 1980s aircraft.Today’s passengers expect on-demand video systems, telephones and even broadband Internet access. Unfortunately, that’s not all they can do. The technology used by the new generation of aircraft is now so advanced that aviation officials fear that terrorists could use it to fly the plane.
A US federal grand jury in Detroit has indicted a Michigan man dubbed the “spam king” and 10 others in an international illegal bulk emailing and stock fraud scheme, the US Justice Department said on Thursday. The 41-count indictment charges Alan Ralsky, 52, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, his son-in-law, and nine others with operating a spamming operation that focused on running a stock “pump and dump” scheme.
Google’s AdSense earnings are threatened by a Trojan that replaces the search giant’s paid-for adverts with its own, in order to hijack advertising revenue. Launched in 2005, Google AdSense allows third-party websites or publishers to generate revenue from Google’s text advertisers. AdSense acts as a middleman between an advertiser and a publisher. By crawling the content of publishers’ web pages, AdSense determines the relevance of a text ad to page content and then places the ad within the page if there is a match.
Before Boeing’s new 787 jetliner gets the green light to fly passengers, the jet maker will have to prove the plane’s computer network can’t be hacked. Boeing has designed the 787 to allow airlines to offer passengers more in-flight entertainment and Internet options than it has with previous planes. Those new features and other aspects of 787′s computer network go beyond the scope of existing regulations, so the Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Boeing to show the new technology won’t pose a safety threat.