![Stuxnet 0.5: The sabotage worm is older than previously thought]()
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
Further infection vectors were incorporated into Stuxnet over time Source: Symantec The first Stuxnet worm was in operation as early as 2007, not just, as previously believed, since 2009. Security firm Symantec found the older variant during a routine check of its...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the keeping-the-lights-on dept. There has been worldwide (all locations) total outage of storage in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Apparently “Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The last update of Flash Player was just two weeks ago and now it’s being updated again – this time to block exploits that target the Firefox browser. The new advisory points to three fixes in the update, two involved in blocking the Firefox exploit and one...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, LAW, MONEY
A mysterious company using the name “Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency” is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit claims to work with law...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
Dell is only one of top three OEMs to bundle Office 365 Home Premium with new consumer computers Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed,...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft’s first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s enterprise UC offerings. Cisco has launched what it calls a frank and direct conversation and a...
