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Archive for January 23rd, 2008

New Symbian Worm hits Nokia Mobile Phones

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 23, 2008

Security vendor Fortinet has diagnosed a malicious SymbianOS Worm that is actively spreading on mobile phone networks.
Fortinet’s threat response team has warned that the worm, identified as SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on several Symbian S60-enabled devices. These include the Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets.
The malware is disguised as a multimedia [...]

EMC Unveils Software As a Service For Data Backup

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 23, 2008

EMC Corporation unveiled its software-as-a-service (SaaS) strategy and the release of MozyEnterprise powered by EMC Fortress for online backup of desktops, laptops and remote Windows servers. EMC also announced several new reseller agreements with business partners to offer MozyEnterprise online backup services to their customers. Additionally, EMC is expanding its relationship with Verizon Business to [...]

Apple Reports 1.58 Billion Dollars Quarterly Profit

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 23, 2008

Apple continues to post impressive revenue reports as they have now reported profit figures of 1.58 billion dollars in the most recent quarter.  The company gained from improved demand for their Mac computers, iPods and iPhones.
Apple’s revenues for the period were at an impressive 9.6 billion dollars. Incidentally around half of these revenues from their [...]

Symantec reports Drive-by pharming attack hits home

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 23, 2008

Symantec reported that it has spotted the first exploits using the “drive-by pharming” concept that researchers have been warning about for two years.
“With this sort of attack, all a victim would have to do to be susceptible is simply view the attacker’s malicious HTML or JavaScript code, which could be placed on a Web [...]