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Trojan steals access data for 300,000 bank accounts
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| RSA says the most remarkable feature of this trojan is that its authors have
| managed to maintain the communications infrastructure between the trojan and
| its database for as long as three years, registering several thousand domains
| to look after Sinowal's communications.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/118365
That's what happens when every single version of Windows can be hijacked
without the user doing anything.
Windows RPC exploit spawns bots and worms
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| Miscreants are taking advantage of slowness in patching systems with an
| emergency Windows security fix issued late last month to spread malware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/04/win_rpc_exploit/
Bots exploiting Microsoft's latest RPC flaw
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10081351-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Windows: lost cause.
Recent:
Arab National Bank Selects Symark International’s PowerSeries Solutions to
Manage Privileged Access and Meet Compliance Requirements
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| Symark’s PowerPassword solves these issues by providing UNIX/Linux user
| account management in addition to login and password security policies for
| resources stored and local accounts on UNIX and Linux servers.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080818005120&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/5k5h34
Bank of America to support Firefox, finally
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29586
Bank of America may finally embrace Firefox
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| "As the usage of Firefox browsers has increased with our customer base, we
| will be initiating a full support model for Firefox version 2.x in the very
| near future," spokeswoman Tara Burke told Networkworld.com.
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| Think "the very near future" will prove to be very soon? Don't bank on it.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9986201-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
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| Open source software is set to play an increasingly important role at
| Australia's sixth largest bank, according to Smith, who said that Suncorp
| will look to use open source "wherever we can".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Suncorp-envisages-Linux-ODF-for-20-000-desktops/0,130061733,339289679,00.htm?omnRef=1337
Related:
FNB switches 12 000 desktops to Linux
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| With 12 000 desktops switching to Linux this is very likely the
| most significant Linux and open source implementation in South
| Africa to date.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1562
Oracle easy meat for Red Hat Australia
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| He said Red Hat was currently working with a "large bank", whom he kept
| anonymous, to introduce Linux into its IT environment.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22646223-5013040,00.html
Open Source Slowly Gains Momentum on Wall Street
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| Customers may be comfortable using Linux for infrastructure-type
| systems but less so for business software, said Monica Kumar,
| senior director of product manager for Linux and open-source
| software at Oracle.
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=20569
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