On Wednesday afternoon, as the world held its breath as the machine sparked up, CMS team members were scouring computers at the machine for half a dozen files uploaded by the hackers on September 9 and 10. “We think that someone from Fermilab’s

The Feverish Profits of Virus Hunting - Barron’s Online
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD of PWS-Banker? Or perhaps Hehed21 or BackDoor/CKB? If you are a computer user, you had better hope you never will. All three are new bits of so-called malware, or malicious software, to hit the Internet over the past two weeks

The Open Road - CNET News
Who knew that when eWeek ’s Peter Galli wrote in 2007 about Microsoft fracturing the open-source community , Galli would become the very person to help strengthen Microsoft’s role in the open-source community? This past week Peter Galli accepted a

Cyber crooks set email trap with bogus Obama sex video - Daily Times
Cyber crooks are trying to cash in on fascination with the US presidential race by sending trick email promising a sex video starring candidate Barack Obama, according to Sophos computer security firm. Email recipients gullible enough to click on an

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