Month: June 2010
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SCO – are you dead yet?
The ether has been strangely quiet about SCO’s recent defeat at the hands of a jury, on the issue of suing IBM for copyright infringement. After 2 judges and 1 jury decision, it was found comprehensively, that Novell never sold the copyrights to UNIX as part of its sale of UnixWare to SCO in 2003.…
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AT&T’s Ipad data leak
Further on from my previous articles on online data storage and services ( On-line storage – safe or not?, Windows and online banking, Local insurance company loses client data, Data loss for Sidekick users Part 2 and Apple and data leakage? ) AT&T have had a massive data leak of email addresses and ICC-IDs (unique…
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Facebook worms have free reign
A new worm is spreading rapidly via Facebook. The cause is a problem disclosed weeks ago which Facebook seems unable to fix. As a result, there has been another wave of crafted status messages – this time they refer to a web page which allegedly presents the “101 hottest women in the world”. Those who…
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Microsoft installs software without permission
It seems that Microsoft just can’t help itself. As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user’s permission. The update…
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Windows 7 SP1 due in July
Microsoft anounced a public beta of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 at TechEd in New Orleans this week. Yes that’s right – the same package is used to update both platforms due to them using the same kernel. While Windows 7 doesn’t gain any new functionlity from this update, Server 2008 R2…
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Adobe get’s hacked ( again )
It didn’t take long for someone to start exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe’s software. In fact, having the the honour of designing the most hacked software on the planet, means that Adobe’s products are always going to be on the front-line of attacks. Since late Friday attackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the…
