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Category Archives: Current Events
Digital Photo Frames Infected With a Trojan Horse
Reports of three photo frames that came infected with a Trojan Horse were received by the Internet Storm Center this Christmas. The photo frames made by Advanced Design Systems were bought from different Sam’s Club stores.”It propagates to any connected … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced design systems, malware, photo frames, sam's club, trojan horse
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TSA Website’s Security Failings
A website created for the Transportation Security Administration for the purpose of allowing travelers to resolve watch-list or screening problems was found to be inadequately secured, causing travelers to inadvertently transmit sensitive personal information in the clear. Most of the … Continue reading
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Malware piggybacking on digital devices
I would like to talk about an article I read in Slashdot today ( http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/13/1533243 )on Malware (Trojan horse programs and computer viruses) finding their way onto digital devices like iPods and, more interestingly, digital picture frames. The Slashdot article … Continue reading
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Wireless Enabled
Australian IT, Ben Woodhead
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23036773-15306,00.html
Composites World, Jeff Sloan
http://www.compositesworld.com/hpc/issues/2008/January/112392 Continue reading
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Storm Update…holiday edition…
Summary: The popular Storm botnet (also known as Peacomm and a bevy of other names…one for each AV company!) has just released yet another round of its malware in spam send out over the christmas / new years holiday period. … Continue reading
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