Interesting…an undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games, such as World of Warcraft. Identified as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah by Kaspersky Labs, the virus also deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well. The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor [...]
A company named Intego apparently found a malicious Trojan Horse that actually is harmful (OS X attacks and exploits were previously developed that lacked malicious power). According to Intego the Trojan Horse: …disguises itself as a video codec that offers access to a pornographic video…and users attempting to install the codec receive a piece of malware [...]
I read about it via The Register…ICANN set up a new IP address for one of the “root name servers,” and is retiring the old address, i.e., from 198.32.64.12 to 199.7.83.42. They’re apparently doing it for two reasons: For one, the old IP address wasn’t officially under ICANN’s control. But (two) more importantly, the organization wanted to [...]