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Microsoft bets on Windows XP disaster
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:10
Microsoft today used the hoary practice of predicting next year to drive another nail into Windows XP's coffin.
In an eight-item prognostication from several security professionals on its anti-malware and Trustworthy Computing teams, Microsoft forecast an increase in cybercrime that exploits unsupported software.
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Bitcoin market price app, 'Bitcoin Alarm,' is carefully cloaked malware
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:08
If you get a spam message advertising an application called “Bitcoin Alarm,” the name may tell you all you need to know.
The desktop Windows application sends price alerts by SMS to a mobile phone. But closer examination of its code turned up several suspicious traits that indicate it may try to steal the virtual currency, wrote Kenny MacDermid, a research analyst with security company Arbor Networks.
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New Gmail image server proxies raise security risks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:07
A new Gmail policy that allows e-mailed imaged attachments to load automatically comes at a price, say two security researchers.
Google announced on Thursday that Gmail would once again load attached images by default. The feature had been disabled years ago, as a way of clamping down on malware and phishing attacks.
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Bots now running the Internet with 61 percent of Web traffic
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:05
With much trepidation, I must report that there is a pretty good chance that half the visitors to this story will not be human.
According to a recent study by Incapsula, more than 61 percent of all Web traffic is now generated by bots, a 21 percent increase over 2012.
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Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux and pals a free ride to virtual domination
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:03
Microsoft is caught in a monkey-trap, created by cloud computing and Free Software, coupled with short-term thinking and a dose of not-invented-here syndrome.
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