Archive for March, 2009

As posted on the The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) We’ve received a lot of questions from customers about April 1, 2009 and the latest Conficker variant discovered earlier this month, Worm:Win32/Conficker.D (also known as Conficker.C or Downadup.C by some other companies). I wanted to let you know that we’ve put some new information... »

Apple will probably introduce its next iPhone (as well as the final version of its iPhone 3.0 software) on June 8 –the first day of Apple’s 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference, The Business Insider reports. More important: Will Apple CEO Steve Jobs present — or at least make an appearance — at WWDC? His medical leave... »

Just discovered a site that wrote an interesting piece on iPhone 3G’s tips and tricks. These handy resources will help you to easily get the most out of your iPhone. The Hongkiat’s post discussed about: How to Disable iPhone 3G GPRS or Edge Connection How to Set Content Restriction How to Customize iPhone Wallpaper as... »

Blackboard Inc. released a free application that lets iPhone users take learning on the go by accessing their course information. This application is available to all Blackboard clients running the Blackboard Learning System license, Release 7.1 or higher or Blackboard Learn, Release 9.0. With the application, millions of students and learners accustomed to logging in... »

They have no shame Phishing military personnel… Alex Eckelberry POSTED BY SUNBELT SOFTWARE BLOG »

Second time in the last week we’ve seen this — using a Google Code site as a free way to host malware. Alex Eckelberry POSTED BY SUNBELT SOFTWARE BLOG »

by Robin Wauters on March 26, 2009 (Techcrunch) Security consultant Ade Barkah checked in with us to alert us to a couple of serious security issues associated to Google Docs, the web-based office software from the world’s most famous search engine company, giving a whole new meaning to its mission to make the world’s information universally accessible.... »

Western Digital’s extremely popular My Book series of external hard drives got a little capacity boost today: all the single disk models now max out at 2TB. Please contact our Sales Team for pricing. »

A major distribution network for rogue anti-virus products has been shut down following reports by Security Fix about massive profits that the network’s affiliates were making for disseminating the worthless software. On Monday, Security Fix profiled TrafficConverter2.biz, a program that pays affiliates handsome commissions for spreading “scareware” products like Antivirus2009 and Antivirus360. Scareware tries... »

If you watch television, chances are you’ve seen the jingles where the young guy sings a campy song about his troubles with identity theft, in a bid to pitch a site called freecreditreport.com. Well, now the Federal Trade Commission is getting in on the act, running a series of hilarious public service announcements to... »