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I have been reading up on this ubiqutous ‘Month of Apple Bugs’, and in light of this article, I have become increasingly angered with the website. The article on AppleGazette makes very valid points, as to why effectively the MOAB project has lost all of its credibility. I want to state upfront that I’m not [...]

This is a very comprehensive and detailed article which informs you of 10 reasons why you should consider switching to Vista and some other annoyances that may make you want to put down your credit card and think again. These are the areas covered:
Why to Buy
Security
IE
Eye Candy (Aero Glass, etc)
Desktop Search
Better updates
More media
Parental Controls
Better backups
Peer-to-peer [...]

Everyone went all crazy when the story was leaked that the first ever ‘virus’ was made for OS X. However this has been deemed inaccurate and untrue, it a ‘trojan’. For one you need to download the infected file (which claims to be screenshots of the new version of OS X, 10.5 ‘Leopard’) and double [...]

XP Professional and Home are divided into two general product categories for Microsoft, namely business and consumer products. XP Professional, as a business product, will receive mainstream support for two additional years after the release of Windows Vista (whenever that may be). After that, Professional will have an additional five years of extended service (minimum), [...]

It seems like the “world’s most trusted” antivirus software for Mac has some flaws that actually makes OS X more vulnerable.
The vulnerability occurs when AntiVirus is decompressing files compressed in the RAR format for scanning. When AntiVirus is performing this operation, it is susceptible to to multiple heap overflows allowing attackers complete control of the [...]

A group in the middle east who previously infected PCs with a rootkit via IM, apparently installed BitTorrent without user permission on infected machines, then started piping movies to the end users. As a new technique used by the bad guys, thats pretty scary stuff.
And…they piped Mr Bean?!? [digg]
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It looks like that Best Buy Canada is offering Spyware Installation for $129 (Canadian). It’s obviously a typo error, because when you click on a link, it gives you information about Best Buy setting up an anti-spyware software for your system. It’s a bit pricy really, any tech savvy person could do it in ten [...]

Even as the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) is collaborating with Mumbai Police to observe Cyber Safety Week, DNA takes a look at the top 10 hacking incidents of all time — instances where some of the most seemingly secure computer networks were compromised
Really not much to explain here. It is interesting [...]

IO Data, a Japanese company, has released information that some models in their ‘HDP-U’ line have ‘picked up’ the “W32/Tompai-A” trojan.
What might be even worse is how IO Data Device handled the problem; they didn’t release the serial numbers of infected drives until some 14 hours after the announcement of the infection. We realize that [...]

If you have heard all the news about a PSP ‘trojan’ that ‘bricks’ your PSP and you want to see it on camera, then your in luck. Well known anti-virus company F-Secure has bit the bullet and spent the £179.99 to get a PSP and brick it for you to see. It is quite interedting [...]