Infected Computers May Show Offensive Web Advertising (KTHV Little Rock)

Many online users are hit with offensive ads when visiting well known web sites.  The fault may not lie in the web site, but on the user's own computer.  

Apple Could Suffer PC's Revenge (TheStreet.com)

Apple's success has hinged as much on the downfall of the PC as it has on heralded CEO Steve Jobs. What if PCs catch their stride?

30-12-2008: Crime fighters the only IT winners (The Edge Daily)

MOSCOW: The explosion of malware and cybercrime in 2008 could cost its victims more than US$100 billion (RM350 billion), said Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive of Kaspersky Lab.

SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions (ZDNet)

Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority (CA), a breakthrough that allows the forging of certificates that are fully trusted by all modern Web browsers. The research, which will be ...

Santa left a virus under the Christmas tree (ZDNet)

Amazon has warned its customers that one of Samsung's digital picture frames shipped to customers infected with a virus. While Samsung has some egg on its face, malware that ships on consumer hardware is not as serious of an issue as it may seem. Earlier this...