by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, SECURITY
The website of the US television network NBC, NBC.com, has been hacked and the computers of visitors to it have been infected with malware. An NBC spokeswoman confirmed the incident in a statement to Huffington Post. According to various security researchers, a hacker...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
Jean-Ian Boutin, who works for AV firm Eset, has discovered trojans that carry a valid digital signature. This potentially allows online banking spyware to pass superficial tests as harmless. Apparently, the certificate in question was issued by the DigiCert...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SECURITY
Escalating current events that involved several series of emergency patches and intrusions into prominent companies have slightly distorted our view of the bigger picture: it appears that companies are being spied on with a high degree of technological effort –...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the only-765-fps-in-pong dept. A big shift in the way graphics cards and gaming performance are tested has been occurring over the last few months, with many review sites now using frame times rather than just average frame rates to compare products. Another...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry
Mandiant report citing Chinese government's role in cyberattacks might give more pause to some U.S. companies China has for years been developing an IT outsourcing industry aimed at bringing in business from the U.S. and Europe. It has succeeded, but then again...