Archive for June 2nd, 2010

Lots of folks got clickjacked on this one:Liking that leads to this:Right.And here’s another one to avoid: AmillionlikesThanks Bharath.Tom Kelchner »

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with CyberSpy Software, LLC, of Orlando, Fla., that requires that company to rewrite its keylogging software to give warning when it is being installed on a computer and stop a number of illega... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/06/02/in-czech-guest-is-host.aspx'; I think I may have just seen my favorite localization bug report to date.  A tester recently opened a bug against our Czech localization of Hyper-V – where the sentence: The guest operating system (guest) is the operating system that runs inside the virtual machine... »

Security firm Intego has found a downloader for spyware being installed by a number of applications and screen savers from download sites including MacUpdate, VersionTracker and Softpedia. The name: OSX/OpinionSpy.Intego researchers said they found the... »

Five facing federal indictments in banking Trojan theftFive alleged money mules have been indicted in federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in connection with the illegal May 2007 transfer of $450,000 from the bank account o... »

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission has launched a program to give consumers software tools to test the speeds of their broadband services.The commission is offering two tools, Ookla and M-Lab (both still in beta) that will test broadband service... »

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission has launched a program to give consumers software tools to test the speeds of their broadband services.The commission is offering two tools, Ookla and M-Lab (both still in beta) that will test broadband service... »

“Anyone else getting this crap today?”Alert reader David McSpadden notified Sunbelt of the following spear-phishing attempt that was sent to users, appearing to come from their system administrator. [The PDF contains a link to the executable for th... »

If you like gunning down cowboys in the Wild West – and who doesn’t – then you may well have picked up Red Dead Redemption over the last couple of weeks, especially given that it’s one of the highest ranking games in years. One of the most i... »

You might want to avoid the temptation to download and run a program being touted on Youtube as a Modern Warfare 2 Cheat Console, which I’ve seen spammed to a couple of gaming forums and a bunch of video sharing websites. Here’s one of the videos i... »