InfoJack Trojan burrows into Windows CE machines
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| Miscreants have created a Trojan capable of infecting mobile devices running
| Windows CE.
|
| The InfoJack Trojan spreads by either tricking mobile users into installing
| seemingly legitimate application installation files or if punters
| inadvertently use an infected memory card on vulnerable devices. The malware
| has been spotted circulating in China.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/infojack_trojan/
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks
Recent:
Microsoft cans key conference
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| SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has decided that it does not love its popular Mobile
| and Embedded DevCon any more and has pulled the plug.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/16/microsoft-cans-key-conference
Related:
Why device developers prefer Debian
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| In addition to Debian's 13 percent score, Ubuntu, which is based
| on Debian packages, jumped to 6 percent this year, its first year
| in our survey. In contrast, Red Hat, achieved a 5 percent score
| and Fedora came in at 6 percent, while SUSE scored just 2 percent.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5036152029.html
Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010
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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/
FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS
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| I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the
| alarm--the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared.
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http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03
Diebold Can't Sell E-Voting Subsidiary
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| Diebold fails to sell its electronic voting business, changes the
| subsidiary's name to Premier Election Solutions.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136044-c,companynews/article.html
Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack
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| An analysis of Diebold's source code shows that a hacker with access to a
| single voting machine could use a virus to affect an election.
|
| [...]
|
| The delayed release of the source-code review meant that David Wagner, an
| associate professor of computer science at the University of California at
| Berkeley and an author of the report, was not able to present his findings at
| a public hearing held on July 30 to discuss the results of the voting system
| review.
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http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,135461/printable.html#
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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
|
| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows,"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
|
| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
|
| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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