Computerworld – Consumer Reports today said that its lab tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from a “death grip” problem similar to last summer’s revelations about AT&T’s model. Holding the Verizon model in certain ways can “cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in weak signal conditions,” the...
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IDG News Service – In a sign that hackers, like everyone else, are taking an interest in everything Apple, researchers at Sophos say they’ve spotted a new Trojan horse program written for the Mac. It’s called the BlackHole RAT (the RAT part is for “remote access Trojan”) and it’s pretty easy to find online...
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IDG News Service – It’s been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world’s spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world’s top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems’ IronPort group ranks it...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to shut down an alleged text-messaging spam operation that sent out 85 text messages per minute at its peak, the agency said Wednesday. The alleged operation of Phillip A. Flora pitched loan modification assistance, debt relief and other services, the FTC said in a news...
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Microsoft downplayed the threat posed to Windows users by a recently-revealed vulnerability, saying that it was unlikely the bug could be exploited to compromise a computer. Artwork: Chip TaylorThe flaw in the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) network and file-sharing protocol was disclosed Monday by someone identified only as ” Cupidon-3005″ on the Full...
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