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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, Malware Reports, SECURITY
Hackers broke into a server at cPanel.net, creators and vendors of the cPanel web hosting control panel for Linux, BSD and Windows servers, and proceeded to install SSH rootkits and compromised OpenSSH packages on customer systems. Once the attack had been discovered,...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the hello-sir-madam dept. A New York Times consumer columnist tracked down the people who run a ‘This is your second and final notice” robocall operation. The calls came from Account Management Assistance, which promises to negotiate lower credit card...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
The short answer: it’s unlikely you’ll ever get your stuff back. Even with anti-theft software, there’s no guarantee, but we constantly recommend installing software like Prey for this very purpose. If you don’t have tracking software...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the give-the-people-what-we-have dept. Chris Welch at The Verge tells us: ‘Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable’s Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, The Daily WTF
Some terrible code arises out of terrible business rules which no one truly understands. Some terrible code arises from laziness, sloppiness, or the need to just get it done now. But there’s a special class of awful code that arises for a complete misunderstanding of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the no-u235-for-you dept. Symantec researchers have discovered an older version of the infamous Stuxnet worm that caused the disruption at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz: Stuxnet 0.5. According to a whitepaper released by the researchers at RSA...
