The sudden drop in activity of a major spam producer was the result of a larges co-ordinated attack on spammers, it has emerged. At 15:30 GMT on 16 March, a network of spam-producing computers, known as Rustock, suddenly stopped. Raids on the network’s infrastructure were triggered by a long-running investigation by Microsoft. During raids,...
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Apple on Tuesday shipped a Java security update to Leopard and Snow Leopard users that patched a total of 27 vulnerabilities in the Oracle software. Apple said that some of the bugs could be exploited to execute attack code outside the Java sandbox, which would make it possible for hackers hijack a vulnerable Mac....
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By some accounts Google’s Android Market is uploading as many as a thousand new apps per day. That speaks well to the app market’s growing popularity but, as with any popular site these days it seems, it’s also made Android Market a target of malicious hackers spreading malware that could compromise a user’s security...
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Seagate Technology on Tuesday unveiled its new hard disk drive (HDD) that it proclaims to be the easiest to deploy HDD with 3TB capacity. The drive features a number of internal improvements and comes with a special program that allows it to offer 3TB capacity on older systems with older software. Besides, thanks to...
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A very small number of Gmail users temporarily lost their Gmail accounts starting on Sunday. Most of them had their accounts back by mid-day Tuesday, the company said. Ben Treynor, Google’s (News – Alert) vice president for engineering and site reliability czar, blamed the outage on a “bug.” According to a blog post he made...
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