Malware-infected Mainframe May Have Doomed Spanish Airliner

Spanair flight number JK 5022, which crashed seconds after taking off from Madrid’s Barajas airport on August 20, 2008, may have been doomed AKPC_IDS += "4628,";Popularity: 1% [?]

August 22nd, 2010 | Software | Read More

Android Gets its First Trojan

Android has had a few security scares during its meteoric rise to greatness, but this is the first time a software package could accurately be described as a malicious trojan. The malware, called Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer, appears to be a standard Android application with the .APK file extension....

August 10th, 2010 | Security, Software | Read More

Report: Majority of Fortune 500 Companies Possibly Infected with Botnets

Think Fortune 500 companies are on the ball? Think again. According to a startling RSA study released this week, as many as 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies might be affected by botnet activity. As frightening as that sounds, RSA stands behind those numbers. Sean Brady, manager of the Identity Protection...

April 15th, 2010 | Security, Software | Read More

Google: We’re ready for a dialogue with China

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews This afternoon, just hours following Microsoft’s stunningly fast response to a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability made stunningly public by Google last week, a Google spokesperson told Betanews today that it expects to engage in a dialogue with the government...

January 21st, 2010 | Policy & Law, Security, Software | Read More