Conficker Costs Manchester City Council over $2.4 Million published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:06:00 GMT The Conficker worm outbreak caught a lot of people off guard, but the Manchester City Council impresses through its recent announcement of cleanup costs amounting to £1.5 million ($2.45 million). The sum represents the losses in bus lane tickets that were never issued, as well as the cost of buying new equipment and hiring consultan... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Conficker-Costs-Manchester-City-Council-Over-2-4-Million-115777.shtml

People's Lives Held for Ransom via SMS published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:38:00 GMT The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued warnings to the general public after it received reports of death threats being made via mobile phone text messages. The bogus SMSes inform people that they are about to be killed if they do not contact an e-mail address and follow instructions. Australian mobile subscribers were... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/People-039-s-Lives-Held-for-Ransom-via-SMS-115754.shtml

Security Guard's Mission Impossible Ends in Hacking Charges published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:22:00 GMT Jesse William McGraw, a security guard at the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas, has been charged with computer intrusion after he took his passion for spy movies to another level – actually making one during his night shifts. The misguided hacker filmed himself installing a botnet client on hospital computers while wearing a h... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Guard-039-s-Mission-Impossible-Ends-in-Hacking-Charges-115739.shtml

Nine-Ball Distributes Complex Click Fraud Trojan published on Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:21:00 GMT Analysts from security company SecureWorks discovered one of the most complex and effective click fraud trojans known to date, while analyzing the malware served by the Nine-Ball mass injection attac... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nine-Ball-Distributes-Complex-Click-Fraud-Trojan-115677.shtml

Torrentreactor Website Injected with Malicious Code published on Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:04:00 GMT Torrentreactor, one of the largest torrent indexers, has been compromised by unknown attackers who injected a hidden IFrame into its pages. The IFrame loads malicious code from a remote server that attempts to exploit software on visitors' computers and infect them with malware. The incident has been reported by security researche... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Torrentreactor-Website-Injected-with-Malicious-Code-115664.shtml

IT Professionals More Comfortable with Social Networking at the Workplace published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:14:00 GMT A new study by Facetime found that social networks were becoming more accepted at the workplace. This comes in contrast with the past several years, when social networking use was greatly discouraged and even banned at most companies. The study was conducted on more than 1100 IT professionals with the majority ... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/IT-Professionals-More-Comfortable-with-Social-Networking-Being-Used-at-the-Workplace-115803.shtml

No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:27:00 GMT Among squabbles and disagreements, specific codec requirements for the <video> and <audio> tags may be removed from the proposed HTML 5 standard. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made his concerns and decisions known saying that without a general consensus among browser maker... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/No-Codec-Requirements-for-the-HTML-5-Standard-115796.shtml

Wikimedia Foundation Receives a $300,000 Grant published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:48:00 GMT Wikimedia Foundation has just received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support its Wikimedia Commons project. The money will go into research, to find the reasons keeping some users from participating, as well as into redesigning the upload process.“The global community that is building Wikimedia Commons is setting the... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wikimedia-Foundation-Receives-a-300-000-Grant-115788.shtml

Yahoo Releases Delicious Google Chrome Extension published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:02:00 GMT Google Chrome may be faster in some cases and offer a more streamlined interface, but its developers know it has no real chance of gaining any traction without an add-on system. Add-on support, or extension... Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Releases-Delicious-Google-Chrome-Extension-115782.shtml

Google Book Search Gets a Minor Update published on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:21:00 GMT One of Google's most controversial products, Book Search, may be getting unwanted attention from the US Department of Justice and some less than Other details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Book-Search-Gets-a-Minor-Update-115772.shtml