Websense Inc. has announced it has discovered a spam and Web site spoofing campaign designed to fool people into thinking the U.S. has invaded Iran.The San Diego-based messaging security vendor?s Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network announced Thursday the Storm Worm campaign has started ?social engineering? campaign with this aim.On a blog, Websense posted screen shots of [...]

In a weird turn of events in an already-bizarre saga, the U.S. chapter of the IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF) has filed a defamation lawsuit against a former executive director, alleging that he attempted to discredit and damage the organization via comments posted on a blog under a fictitious name.

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Sophos is warning of an attempt by hackers to infect computers using the camouflage of a news report claiming that the USA has invaded Iran. Widely spammed out emails with subject lines including “Thi…
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In the months since Apple released the iPhone and the iPod touch, Mobile Safari has become the most commonly used mobile Web browser in the United States, and its market share continues to increase. Because the iPhone’s form factor and user interface (UI) model are so different from other mobile browsers, many developers are choosing [...]

As Canada’s own investigation into P2P throttling slowly moves to its conclusion, the US investigation into similar practices at cable giant Comcast continues to chug along. Comcast has quite vocally insisted that the FCC doesn’t actually have the authority to address the issue, but a staff attorney at Public Knowledge has dug up a fascinating [...]

IT security and control firm Sophos is warning of an attempt by hackers to infect computers using the camouflage of a news report claiming that the USA has invaded Iran.Widely spammed out emails with subject lines including “Third World War has begun”, “20000 US Soldiers in Iran”, and “US Army crossed Iran’s borders” have been [...]

Unfortunately, neither IPv4 or IPv6 are incompatible, which means that any IPv4 device will have to be assigned an IPv6 number. IPv4 to IPv6 connections will either have to be translated or tunneled, like a VPN connection, via a router.And that means that the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will likely be anything but simple. “The response that [...]

Large corporate web sites were heavily targeted by hackers in the early part of 2008, said the threat round-up report from US security firm Trend Micro.Cyber criminals launched SQL injection attacks on thousands of web pages belonging to some of the largest companies in the US, as well as state government agencies and educational institutions.Criminals [...]

Trend Micro reported that data leaks are becoming a leading source of headaches for U.S., U.K., German and Japanese companies, according to the results of a study that explores corporate computer user…
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WANT to browse the internet, update your Facebook profile, answer emails, do some eBay shopping and add to your MySpace blog from your car?Technology to bring the information superhighway to our real highways is on the way, though not all car makers see eye to eye and the risk of driver distraction is already raising [...]

AT&T has revealed the new pricing structure for the iPhone 3G in the US.The company is making a few changes to the monthly plan, boosting rates and adding a new separate charge for SMS messages.Users will pay an extra $10 for the new iPhone’s upgrade from a slower Edge connection to the 3G network. Prices [...]

E-voting activist Avi Rubin says voting systems around the U.S. have improved since the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, noting that more states are using paper records as a backup to electronic voting systems.

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