Copy Machines seem innocent enough. There may be that screwball office worker that makes funny faces or maybe even show a full moon from time to time, but these machines could land you in a lot of financial trouble and even send you to prison! Why are copy machines so bad? Read on to find out what you should know and how you can protect your self.
Microsoft announced last year that it would be offering free Microsoft Office online in the “cloud”. These are web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. These “Stripped Down” iterations of the familiar Office Programs would be accessible from most web browsers and would carry much of the familiarity and functionality of the current Office versions. How do these compare to the full versions and would you really need to buy a full version of Office again?
Microsoft recently announced that it had hit a huge milestone with Windows 7: they had sold 150 million copies. However, despite this success in the mainstream consumer market, the adoption rate among enterprise customers has been slow. But why is that?
You see it in movies all the time when the characters pass sensitive information through a cell phone conversation and then gets intercepted by that team in the black van. Classic scenario for the movies, but could be real life too!
A new version of the Zeus trojan has been silently stealing money from bank accounts since early last month, according to M86 Security. They say they’ve "never seen such a sophisticated and dangerous threat." Since early last month, the Zeus v3 trojan has managed to steal roughly a million dollars from over 3000 accounts, all customers of an unnamed British bank. The trojan is infecting Windows machines largely through exploits in Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader and then laying in wait until the user logs into his bank account. If the account has more than $1250, it siphons that money into a mule account. It feels much like a “Robin Hood” style program, where it steal from the rich. Apparently most anti-virus software can’t detect the trojan yet, so please be vigilant in your banking practices and watch out for unintended transfers. On the other hand you can always keep less than the $1250 in your bank account.
Security firm Kaspersky Labs warns that it discovered the Android platform’s first message-based Trojan already infecting a number of mobile devices.
Called Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, the Trojan appears as a 13KB, "harmless media player application" using the typical APK file extension. Once installed, the Trojan will begin to send out SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent.
"The Trojan-SMS category is currently the most widespread class of malware for mobile phones, but Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a is the first to specifically target the Android platform," the security firm said. "It should be noted that there have already been isolated cases of devices running Android being infected with spyware. The first such program appeared in 2009."
Kaspersky Lab is currently working on an Android-based Mobile Security app slated to hit the Market in early 2011. The signature for Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a has now been added to its antivirus databases.
The news of Intel’s very expensive McAfee purchase raises one obvious question: why is security software worth over $7 billion to a chip maker? Intel has been short on specifics, but it’s becoming clear that virus-killing silicon is coming.