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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:05pm EST
A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:14pm EST
The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn't quite believe that first to market is the key to success. He says this market is too important to be downloading open source bits frequently. With that dilemma, enterprises instead turn to commercially supported products.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:47pm EST
Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time," the company said in a statement. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:38pm EST
Details about Windows Phone 8 are bustin' out all over. And while those technical details are devastating for Windows Phone 7.5 "Tango" sales, there's a bigger picture.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:57am EST
The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-0830 and was discovered by Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and creator of the popular Suhosin security extension for PHP.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:52am EST
Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:10am EST
Data routinely gathered in Web logs -- IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings -- can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. At the same time, analysis of such data when anonymized can help detect malicious activity and so improve overall Internet security, they add.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:48am EST
H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group. The report by two economists at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, also found that, on average, H-1B workers are about 10 years younger than U.S. born workers.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:31am EST
Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:13am EST
Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS. The promotion, announced on Twitter by Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president for developer relations, comes as RIM struggles to generate int
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:02am EST
Apple this week patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Both Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes. The two operating systems were last updated in mid-October 2011.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:00am EST
In an effort to improve security in its Android Market, Google has been using a service providing automated scanning of applications submitted to the mobile application store, Google revealed on Thursday afternoon. Code-named Bouncer, the service scans the market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience or requiring developers to submit to an application approval process, said Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice of engineering for Android, in a blog post:
