Halloween Brings Hackers in Your Computer

Security company Sophos discovered a Halloween spam campaign which attempts to redirect the users to malicious websites ‘equipped’ with dangerous files. The spam messages can be easily identified using their subjects: ‘Happy Halloween’, ‘Dancing Bones’, ‘The most amazing dancing skeleton’, ‘Shows this to the kids’, ‘Send this to your friends’ or ‘Man this rocks’. According to the reports, the messages require the users to visit a malicious website in order to download a dancing skeleton game but instead of saving the Halloween content, they actually get a Trojan horse. The interesting fact is that the infected file gives the attackers the possibility to control the affected computer from any system connected to the Internet. Read More »

Accessorize Zune 2.0

While claiming that the move from Zune 1.0 to Zune 2.0 was exclusively the natural evolution of the device, and not a response catalyzed by Apple releasing its new lineup of iPods in early September, Microsoft proved that it was gearing up for the long haul on the digital media player market. The face-off between the Redmond and the Cupertino companies does by no means end with the comparison between Windows and Mac OS X, but has also transitioned between digital media players since Zune hit the shelves at the end of 2006, positioned as an iPod killer.

Over one year after the launch of Zune, Microsoft’s digital media player has failed to kill the iPod in any manner, and with Apple evolving its devices a month earlier than Microsoft, the general impression is that the Cupertino-based hardware company is firmly in the lead, with competitors trailing it at a distance in terms of both market share and innovation. Read More »

One Click Jailbreaking

While iPhone jailbreaking has been a much talked about subject, for the vast majority of iPhone users, it is a non-issue. These people are either perfectly content with what Apple offers out of the box, or are unwilling to take the step, either because of the technical knowledge necessary or because of the risks involved if anything goes wrong. However, jailbreaking has just taken it first steps into the mainstream, becoming both very easy and readily accessible for anyone interested.

Through a collective effort of a large number of hackers, there is now an instant, one-click jailbreaking solution for both iPhones and iPod touches. This lets anyone gain full access to the device’s hard drive and also adds Installer.app making adding custom native applications easy. Read More »

Facebook Not Safe for Work

We all know Facebook is a real phenomenon on the Internet but when it is accessed from other places than your personal computer, it instantly becomes a serious matter. Security company Sophos conducted a special research to find out how many employees access Facebook from work and how often they do it. No more than 37.2 percent of the total 500 Facebook users who answered the questionnaire said they access the social network website one or twice a day from their workstation, while 8 percent admitted they visit the page up to ten times a day. The juicy part is that 14.8 percent of the respondents said they are permanently connected to