Researcher: Hackers don't time exploits for impact
The idea that cybercriminals stockpile exploits, then time their release to do the most damage gives them too much credit, a security researcher said Friday.
Stories by Gregg Keizer
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The iPhone goes on sale, finally
As hundreds lined up in front of the Apple Inc. store in midtown Manhattan cheered, the first buyers of the long-awaited, <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">much-coveted iPhone</a> emerged, holding small black bags over their heads.
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Hydra-headed 'Storm' attack starts
A new round of greeting card spam that draws users to attack sites relies on a sophisticated multi-pronged, multi-exploit strike force to infect machines, security professionals said late Thursday.
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Critics: Vista Ultimate add-ons promised not delivered
Microsoft has failed to deliver on its promise of downloadable extras for the highest-priced version of Windows Vista, critics claim.
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Dell bundles free online storage with new PCs
Along with its newly-hued PCs, Dell Tuesday quietly made free online storage standard for all new Inspiron and XPS computers, the first time a top-tier OEM has bundled the service with consumer systems.
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Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned Wednesday.
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Apple touts iPhone keyboard as first reviews hit
Coincidence or not, Apple Wednesday released a video demonstration of the iPhone's touch-screen keyboard hours after the first reviews criticized some aspects of the device's screen-tapping.
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'Scam-spammers' mess with our minds
Spammers and scammers know how to work the mind games that make even the most sophisticated and skeptical computer users fall for their tricks, a researcher said in a just-released report.
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MS ANTITRUST - Google pushes court on Microsoft search
Google has escalated its antitrust battle with Microsoft by questioning its rival's promised changes to Windows Vista search and asking a US federal judge to extend oversight to make sure Microsoft follows through.
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Apple sells one of every seven notebooks
Apple got help from the update to its MacBook laptops to push its share of the laptop market up nearly two points in May, to 14.3 percent, a research firm said Friday.
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Porn sites serve up Mpack attacks
Several hundred pornography sites are surprising unwitting users with a smorgasbord of exploits via Mpack, the already notorious hacker toolkit that launched massive attacks earlier this week from a network of more than 10,000 compromised domains.
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Apple's Leopard beta leaks, BitTorrent downloads ensue
The beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that Apple handed out to developers June 11 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has leaked to the Internet and is being downloaded by users of PirateBay, the Swedish torrent tracker.
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Google wants more Vista changes
Google said Wednesday that it wants federal and state regulators to press Microsoft to make more changes to Windows Vista's desktop search and indexing tool.
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Microsoft: We patch faster than Apple, Novell, Red Hat
Windows users were at risk for in-the-wild vulnerabilities fewer days on average last year than users of rival operating systems from Apple, Novell, Red Hat and Sun, a Microsoft executive claimed.
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University tech group leaks iPhone technical details
New technical details about Apple's iPhone, leaked to the Web by a University of Washington technology group but since yanked from the school's site, confirmed that the device will not support Adobe's Flash, will rely on QuickTime to display audio and video, and can keep only eight Safari-displayed Web pages in memory at one time.
