Well, they are lucky that they caught it pretty early to warn people and governments. Hopefully it hasn't done too much damage yet, but I doubt them catching it will mean it will stop being spread. That seems highly unlikely in so many ways since malware never stops sadly. However, with that being said we might have a fighting chance against this possible infection/
Yes indeed, Scott. And it relates to the point I keep making about people needing to think about what they've posted online before choosing something as lame as "Place of birth" or "First school" or "Mother's maiden name" as their security question.
"The PDF.js project clearly shows that HTML5 and JavaScript are now powerful enough to create applications that could previously have only been created as native applications," the Mozilla software engineers said. "Not only do most PDFs load and render quickly, they run securely and have an interface that feels at home in the browser." - See more at: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/011113-firefox-getting-built-in-html5-based-pdf-265749.html#sthash.nWWgyBeZ.dpuf
"The PDF.js project clearly shows that HTML5 and JavaScript are now powerful enough to create applications that could previously have only been created as native applications," the Mozilla software engineers said. "Not only do most PDFs load and render quickly, they run securely and have an interface that feels at home in the browser."
@Brian: The answer I've heard for that is that those phishing mails are looking for gullible or otherwise vulnerable individuals who would take longer to realize they'd been scammed and have less an idea of what to do about it.
Personally, I think it's more an English-as-second-language. Western languages are extremely difficult for Eastern-language speakers and vice-versa. Translation is hard.
@Kim -- that was my original point. Most marketers would be jealous of that kind of "conversion rate". It's also why privacy should be a concern -- not because of advertisers, but phishers. Yet every time I hear about complaints, it's always because "advertisers will use it" when they're the least of our worries.
There are examples of the phishing emails in the Kaspersky report, and clearly a lot of thought and research went into them. It would be hard for anyone not to be hooked by that kind of content.
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Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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