New Mutating Toolkit Trojan Infects Thousands - Security - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

New Mutating Toolkit Trojan Infects Thousands - Security - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

By Stefanie Hoffman, CMP Channel
5:20 PM EST Mon. Jan. 14, 2008
The latest wave of cyber attacks will likely be out of the box -- literally. Security researchers recently detected yet another crimeware toolkit that has the ability to turn established and legitimate Web sites into malware traps while constantly mutating to evade detection.

The new crimeware Trojan, which was first detected by San Jose-based security company Finjan, infected more than 10,000 Web sites in December alone and has likely affected hundreds of thousands of sites throughout 2007, experts say. Finjan researchers also assert that the number of affected sites will rise exponentially in the next 12 months, due to the fact that the toolkit enables attackers with very little experience to rapidly infect an enormous amount of machines in a short amount of time.

Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy

An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.

Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy

For months, the speculation surrounded an apparent decrease in PageRank scores on Google's Toolbar. It seemed the decrease in rank was connected to penalties associated with buying and selling links that passed on PageRank, a practice Google not-so-quietly condemned last autumn.

World Seed Bank - International Business News - Portfolio.com

World Seed Bank - International Business News - Portfolio.com

A Category 5 hurricane makes landfall, winds clocking in at 208 miles per hour. Eleven thousand die; there are $5 billion in damages; the region’s economy is set back 20 years. More bad news for the survivors: Crops, and therefore the food supply, have been destroyed. This isn’t a doomsday scenario: It happened in 1998 when Hurricane Mitch shredded large parts of Honduras and Nicaragua. But in a break with the usual devastating cycle of famine following a natural disaster, relief organizations worked with seed banks to supply farmers, saving lives and letting the agencies focus on problems like rebuilding the housing stock.

Hubble To Get Custom-Made Blankets

Goddard engineer Ben Reed studies a portion of a multi-layer blanket from Hubble, brought back to Earth after Servicing Mission 3A in 1999. Click image for enlargement. Credit: NASA

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2007
The Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, scheduled for August 2008, aims to complete multiple upgrades and repairs, many of which are crucial for prolonging the telescope's operational life. One of the mission's many objectives is the refurbishment of its outer thermal blankets.

"Thermal blankets are to spacecraft as clothes are to people," says Mike Weiss, Hubble's technical deputy program manager. "Just as clothes cover our skin and help protect us from nature's elements...the cold winter wind and the scorching summer sun, thermal blankets protect Hubble from the harsh environment of space."

Hubble To Get Custom-Made Blankets

3G technology to come to Viet Nam next year

The Hindu : Business : IT set to undergo a metamorphosis

The Hindu : Business : IT set to undergo a metamorphosis

Britney Spears, Apple's Quicktime and New Spam Attacks - The Chart - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness

Britney Spears, Apple's Quicktime and New Spam Attacks - The Chart - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness

* A memory corruption bug which can be triggered by a maliciously crafted movie. It could potentially result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-2395)

* A heap overflow in the use of Sample Table Sample Descriptor atoms, which can be triggered through maliciously crafted movie files. It could potentially result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-3750).

* Vulnerabilities in Quicktime for Java which could allow untrusted applets to obtain elevated privileges (CVE-2007-3751).

* Two bugs in PICT file processing, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4672).

* A bug in QTVR movie file parsing which could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4675).

* A bug in the parsing of color table atoms which could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4677).