Tech Week in Review 10-21-2011
QR Codes are New Security Threat It was only a matter of time. The same QR codes that have grown in popularity around the world, more so in Asia and Europe than in the US, are now a security threat. An incident took place in Russia where unsuspecting people thought they were downloading an app [...]
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The Zune is Officially Dead I know, you’re completely heartbroken over it, but Microsoft has officially confirmed that they will no longer produce the Zune player. Microsoft has done much more than simply hint that the Zune’s demise was imminent. All the focus has been on their Windows Phone 7 devices, which provide similar functionality. [...]
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Microsoft and Google Twitter Tiff Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, sick of all the patent pressure against their Android operating system, went in on several of Google’s competitors for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy the mobile OS. More specifically, Drummond called out Microsoft for getting in bed with other rivals [...]
Read MoreScammers Exploit Google Images to Serve Malware
It seems that scammers have found a way to infiltrate Google search to push malicious software to visitors. Many have complained about Google Image search results directing them to pages that prompted them to download anti-virus scareware via misleading error messages and alerts (ie. Your computer is infected! Click here to fix!). According to SANS [...]
Read MoreYahoo Primary Source of Malware and Doesn’t Care
You usually expect to catch an infection of malware from some shady unknown website that you shouldn’t have clicked on, but a study done by Avast! has uncovered something disturbing. Popular advertising networks are now being infiltrated by malware and you don’t even have to do anything special to get infected. You don’t even have [...]
Read MoreMediatakeout.com Blocked by Firefox for Installing Malicious Software
If you’ve installed the latest version of the Firefox (3.0.12), you may have trouble browsing MediaTakeOut.com. Internal pages at MTO, one of the most visited African-American websites online, were blocked by Firefox because malicious software found on some of the sites pages. According to the Google Safe Browsing Report generated by Firefox: Of the 956 [...]
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