12th July 2008 Archive

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• Microsoft kicks Ubuntu update in the hardy herons

  Bow to the fix master

  Microsoft, it seems, is reaping the benefits of years spent patching Windows online, beating online update services from newer - and sexier - rivals. Windows Update enjoyed 100 per cent uptime during the second-quarter of this year, according to a survey by Pingdom. Windows Update piped Apple, which came second and trounced …

  Operating Systems 12 Jul 2008, 00:02

• Ex-HP veep pleads guilty to passing on IBM trade secrets

  You're only charged twice

  A former Hewlett-Packard executive has pleaded guilty today for attempting to pass trade secrets from his previous employer, IBM. Atul Malhotra is charged with a single count of theft of trade secrets, and faces up to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. He entered his plea at the US …

  Law 12 Jul 2008, 00:17

• New York pressures more ISPs into child pornography crackdown

  Usenet vivisected by AT&T, AOL

  Bowing to continued pressure from the New York Attorney General, two more big-name American ISPs have shut down access to dozens of Usenet newsgroups that contain child pornography - and many more that don't. Yesterday, New York AG Andrew Cuomo announced that AT&T and AOL had agreed to eliminate access to 88 newsgroups where …

  Telecoms 12 Jul 2008, 00:30

• Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)

  Trojan apocalypse

  It beggars belief that anyone would think that they'd first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan. Widely spammed emails with subject lines including "Third World War has begun", "20000 US Soldiers in Iran", and "US Army crossed Iran's …

  Malware 12 Jul 2008, 00:32