SAN FRANCISCO - Pengasas bersama enjin carian Yahoo di internet, Jerry Yang yang menolak tawaran pengambil alihan sebanyak AS$47 bilion (RM169 bilion) daripada Microsoft kini dalam proses meletakkan jawatan sebagai ketua pegawai eksekutif (CEO).
Yang berumur 40 tahun mengambil alih jawatan (CEO) setahun lalu dan akan kekal memegang jawatan itu sehingga penggantinya diperoleh.
"Yang dan Lembaga Pengarah telah mengadakan dialog berhubung waktu penggantian dan kita semua bersetuju bahawa kini adalah masa sesuai untuk melakukan peralihan CEO baru," kata Pengerusi Yahoo, Roy Bostock.
"Kami berasa terhutang budi kepada Yang dan sumbangannya sebagai CEO sejak 18 bulan lalu," katanya dalam satu kenyataan.
Menurut Yahoo, Yang yang mengasaskan enjin carian itu pada 1995 ketika berumur 26 tahun bersama rakan sekelasnya, David Filo dari Universiti Stanford.
Yang kemudian menjadi bilionair apabila syarikat itu disenaraikan pada tahun seterusnya. - AFP
KUALA LUMPUR: Microsoft Malaysia, anak syarikat perisian komputer terkemuka dunia yang berpangkalan di Amerika Syarikat (AS), Microsoft Corporation tidak terbabit dengan sebarang aktiviti atau menyokong apa-apa bentuk e-mel spam atau ‘sampah’.
Jurucakap Microsoft Malaysia berkata, perbuatan pihak tertentu itu disedari pihaknya sejak tiga tahun lalu.
“Kami meminta orang ramai tidak melayan e-mel berangkai yang mendakwa pengasas Microsoft, Bill Gates mahu memberi wang kepada penggunanya.
“E-mel yang mencalarkan imej Microsoft ini mengarut dan tidak masuk akal. Justeru, jika terima abaikan,” katanya ketika mengulas laporan muka depan Harian Metro kelmarin mengenai sindiket penipuan Internet yang menggunakan nama Gates bagi tujuan mengaut keuntungan.
Laporan memetik, taktik licik terbaru sindiket penipuan Internet dikesan menggunakan nama jutawan yang juga pengasas perisian Microsoft, Gates, bagi memerangkap mangsa melalui e-mel.
Antara kandungan e-mel yang kini tersebar luas di seluruh negara ialah ‘tidak perlu mengeluarkan sebarang modal atau pelaburan, namun dijanjikan pulangan wang ribuan ringgit setiap minggu dengan hanya menghantar e-mel’.
Dakyah e-mel berangkai itu menyatakan Gates mahu berkongsi kekayaan melimpah-ruah dimilikinya dengan pelanggannya, menerusi dua syarikat tersohor, Microsoft dan AOL.
Naib Presiden Dapat Vista Sdn Bhd yang juga pengasas dapat.com, Azli Paat, menjelaskan e-mel berantai seperti itu digunakan sindiket untuk menjual nama, alamat, e-mel dan nombor telefon mangsa kepada syarikat tertentu.
Sementara itu, Kementerian Tenaga, Air dan Komunikasi (KTAK) akan mengambil langkah serius membanteras sindiket yang menjalankan kegiatan jual beli maklumat peribadi orang ramai tanpa kebenaran dan dengan tujuan jahat.
Timbalan Menterinya, Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum, berkata perbuatan menganiaya orang ramai dengan modus operandi tersembunyi di sebalik emel sebagai tidak beretika.
“Sekiranya kejadian itu benar berlaku, ia sesuatu perniagaan yang tidak beretika. Mana boleh jual maklumat peribadi orang lain tanpa kebenaran.
“Pelaku boleh diambil tindakan keras mengikut Akta Komunikasi dan Multimedia 1998 (AKM),” katanya.
WASHINGTON – Syarikat komputer gergasi, Microsoft melancarkan pelayar internet terbaru yang membolehkan pengguna melayari internet tanpa meninggalkan sebarang kesan di laman web yang mereka lawati, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.
Pelayar internet yang dikenali sebagai porn mode menyembunyikan sejarah laman web yang dilawati oleh seseorang individu pada satu komputer yang sama.
Ciri terbaru itu dijangka memberi tamparan hebat terhadap enjin pencarian Google yang banyak bergantung kepada sejarah pelayar untuk menyasarkan satu-satu pengiklanan.
Microsoft has released notification regarding latest vulnerabilities in its products. There are two vulnerabilities that will be affecting many users in Malaysia. Users are advised to take high precautions and execute remedial action to avoid their machines from being compromised.
Three Microsoft products that are experiencing the vulnerabilities are as below:
i. Microsoft Word
ii. Microsoft DNS
The details of the vulnerabilities have been summarized in the tables as below. Be very aware that there is an exploit available for the vulnerability of Microsoft Word and users are advised to undertake a prompt action to fix the vulnerabilities
Produced in 15th July 2008 by MyCERT, CyberSecurity Malaysia, an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).
Revision History:
Initial Release: 15th July 2008
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (951207)
CVE / Microsoft
Security Bulletin CVE-2008-2244
System Affected
* Microsoft Word 2002 Service Pack 3
* Microsoft Word 2000 *
* The software may just exit when opening purposely crafted .doc file
However the software listed below are NOT affected from the vulnerability
* Microsoft Office Word 2000
* Microsoft Office Word 2003 Service Pack 2
* Microsoft Office Word 2003 Service Pack 3
* Microsoft Office Word 2007
* Microsoft Office Word 2007 Service Pack 1
* Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
* Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003 Service Pack 3
* Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
* Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 1
* Microsoft Office for Mac 2004
* Microsoft Office for Mac 2008
Method of infection
User initiated, by opening specially crafted Microsoft Word file with embedded code; usually sent via email or hosted on websites. Attacker then could get access of complete control on the machine
Impact
Attacker could execute exploit remotely by manipulating memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Word.
Attacker may gain the same user right as local user, and fewer user rights reflects less affected system.
Exploit
AVAILABLE
It exploits Microsoft Word Macro processing code for macro names length vulnerability and then executes the attacker-supplied arbitrary code on the compromised computer, drops the backdoor and executes it.
Fixes/Remedial
Run all software as a nonprivileged user with minimal access rights.
Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 Viewer or Microsoft Office Word 2003
Viewer Service Pack 3 to open and view Microsoft Word files.
Do not open and save Microsoft Office file from unknown sources or unexpectedly.
Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing (DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability & DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability)
CVE / Microsoft
Security Bulletin CVE-2008-1454 CVE-2008-1447/MS08-037
System Affected
* DNS Client - Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
DNS Server - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
* DNS Client - Windows XP SP2 & SP3
* DNS Client - Windows XP Pro x64 2 & Windows XP Pro x64 SP2
* DNS Client - Windows Server 2003 SP1 & SP2
DNS Server - Windows Server 2003 SP 1 & SP2
* DNS Client - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition & Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2
DNS Server - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition & Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2
* DNS Client - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium & Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium.
DNS Server - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium & Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium.
* DNS Server - Windows Server 2008, 32 bit
* DNS Server - Windows Server 2008, x64
Method of infection
DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability - CVE-2008-1447
The cause of this is the lack of sufficient entropy allowing an attacker to spoof DNS query responses.
An attacker could send specific queries to a vulnerable DNS server or client, and at the same time respond back in a manner that allows the attacker to insert false or misleading DNS data. The attacker could then redirect Internet traffic from legitimate locations to an address of the attacker's choice.
DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability - CVE-2008-1454
The vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to send specially crafted responses to DNS requests made by vulnerable systems, thereby poisoning the DNS cache and redirecting Internet traffic from legitimate locations and invoking Man in the Middle attack.
It happens when the software fails to properly handle responses that contains data outside of their authority. Including data from beyond the DNS Server authority can cause extra data to be inserted into the DNS cache.
Impact
DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability - CVE-2008-1447
An attacker who has successfully exploited this vulnerability can insert arbitrary addresses into the DNS cache, also known as DNS cache poisoning. Unsuspecting users would fall prey to a pharming attack.
DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability - CVE-2008-1454
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could insert false or misleading DNS data in the response to specific DNS requests, thereby redirecting Internet traffic. This will then expose users for pharming attack.
Exploit N/A
Fixes/Remedial
Available (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-037.mspx)
Ensure that only trusted hosts and networks can send DNS responses to affected machines.
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Recently, Cisco's Chief Security Office, John Stewart, made an interesting statement regarding the nature of today's virus and malware threats. He has stated that spending money on Antivirus (along with other types of malware protection) is a complete waste, with vendors fighting an uphill battle that they are losing. It's a statement that many could probably relate to, as often even a machine that is fully patched and fully updated can still fall prey to viruses or spyware.
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Mr. Stewart asserts that the frequency of new malicious software being released into the wild has made it so commonplace as to be almost ignorable, with companies preferring to just “live with them” rather than struggle to fight them. That sounds like a complete loss of hope, but it wasn't all doom and gloom – he vouched for the idea of white-listing software, crafting systems that only let certain software execute at all. Provided that control is in the hands of the user (or at least whoever administers the machine), it's a nice ideal if not completely realistic.
A lot of people disagree with that point of view – the regional director of McAfee, for instance, who retorted to the Cisco Chief's comments, claiming that while AV suites are not perfect, it is certainly leagues better than having an unprotected machine.
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A software update hosing your OS is pretty bad. It's happened to all of us us at one point or another, though, and frustrations aside we get over it. A software updating denying you access to hardware, however, is something entirely different – and that's exactly what Microsoft is facing right now. It seems that a recent update to Vista is causing problems with USB devices, including USB mice and keyboards. The problem, it seems, will result in these devices no longer functioning, making it pretty difficult to implement any fixes or use the machine at all if you rely on USB input.
The update was for the Windows Defender package, and currently Microsoft has no fix available for it. In the meantime, if you are struck by this problem, your only real recourse is to use a PS/2 device – or remove the update and keep it off your system.
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Microsoft hints that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009.
Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009, shaving up to a year off previous expectations.
It could also be a signal that Microsoft intends to cut its losses with Windows Vista, which has been poorly received or shunned by customers, especially large companies.
Microsoft has long said it wants to release Windows 7 about three years after Vista, which was released to manufacturing in November 2006 but not officially launched until January 2007. Given Microsoft's recent track record - Vista arrived more than five years after XP - most outsiders had pegged some time in 2010 as a safe bet for Windows 7's arrival.
But News.com reported Friday that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates answered a question at a business meeting in Miami about Windows Vista by saying "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version."
And during its announcement Thursday that it would extend the availability of Windows XP Home for low-cost laptops, Microsoft said it would retire the operating system only after June 30, 2010, or one year after the release of Windows 7, whichever comes later.
That implies that Microsoft is targeting the middle of next year for some sort of release milestone for Windows 7 - the only codename known at the moment - though whether that would be a final release to consumers or an RTM, which allows businesses and OEMs to start installing it, is unknown.
A Microsoft spokeswoman, in an e-mail, said the company "is in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista Consumer GA." She said the company was providing early builds of the new operating system to gain user feedback, but otherwise was not providing further information.
Gates also said that he was "super-enthused about what [Windows 7] will do in lots of ways" but didn't elaborate.
What could those be? Microsoft has divulged a few things. Responding to criticism that Windows has become unnecessarily bloated, the company has 200 engineers developing a slimmed-down kernel called MinWin that uses 100 files and 25MB, compared to Vista's 5,000 files and 4GB core and is so small it lacks a graphical subsystem.
Microsoft has also confirmed that the operating system will come in consumer and business versions and in 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Screenshots of early betas of Windows 7 are also appearing. Blogger Paul Thurrott yesterday put up screenshots from build 6519 of Windows 7 released in December, which he said looks like "a slightly enhanced version of Windows Vista."
Microsoft needs to start generating excitement about its software months or years in advance in order to prepare its millions of reselling partners.
But if it talks up Windows 7 too much, it runs the risk that large companies -- Microsoft's most profitable customer segment -- will hold on to their Windows XP machines and skip Vista entirely in favor of Windows 7.
That appears to be happening. A recent enterprise survey by Forrester Research Inc. showed that only 6.3% of enterprises were running Vista at the end of December, with most of the upgrades coming at the expense of aging machines running Windows 2000, not XP.
The vast majority of the 100 million copies of Vista that Microsoft has sold so far have gone to individuals and small businesses purchasing new PCs.
The least-loved version of Windows has long been Windows Millennium Edition (ME), a buggy minor upgrade that was superseded by XP within a year of its release. Despite its far greater - some would say, too great - technical ambition, Vista may end up lumped together with ME as one of the blips on Windows' long-term roadmap.
A recent report by the “Internet Crime Complaint Center” has posted some interesting statistics about fraud on the web and how much it is costing the victims. Over the course of 2007, there were fewer complaints filed than in 2006 – but the value of those went up. In total, around $40 million more was reported than the year before.
Individual complaints averaged around $3500, which may look like a drop in the bucket of several million dollars, but if you lose $3500 to an Internet criminal you're probably hurting anyway. Some other interesting statistics of the report, which is downloadable from the IC3 site, include who was more likely to be defrauded and what the methods were. The “Nigerian” scam mails came in at a mere 1.1%, whereas auction fraud on sites like eBay was a behemoth 35.7%. Identity theft was also low on the list at only 2.9%.
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I currently utilize version 2.0.0.4 of Thunderbird
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YPOPs! is a Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac program providing POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail.
YPOPs! (YahooPOPs!) is an application that provides free POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002. This resulted in many people (including myself) to look for alternative free POP3 services.
But this exercise can be very difficult because of the fact that your Yahoo! Mail address could be with several people and informing all of them about your new email address could prove to be a nightmare.
This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, Calypso, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts.
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The FBI is looking into a China-based hack of servers at the Save Darfur Coalition.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a possible China connection in the hack of a nonprofit group created to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in western Sudan's Darfur region.
The Save Darfur Coalition called in the FBI earlier this week after discovering that someone had gained unauthorized access to its e-mail and Web server, according to Allyn Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman with the group.
Brooks-LaSure doesn't know who is behind the attacks, but he said the Internet Protocol addresses of the computers that had hacked his organization were from China. "Someone in Beijing is trying to send us a message," he said.
The hackers seemed to be primarily interested in gathering data on his group, Brooks-LaSure said. Save Darfur has been trying to get China to pressure Sudan's government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur's ongoing civil war. China is one of Sudan's largest trading partners.
Computers in China have been the source of many attacks in recent years, although security experts say that sometimes China-based machines are simply used as jumping-off points for attackers who actually reside in other countries such as the U.S. or Russia.
Groups that work with Save Darfur may have also been hit, Brooks-LaSure said. Some partner organizations have been the subject of very targeted e-mail attacks over the past few weeks that have tried to trick workers into opening malicious documents or visiting malicious Web sites. These are both common ways of installing unauthorized software on a victim's computer.
This type of targeted e-mail attack was recently employed by attackers looking to infect people on a pro-Tibet mailing list. Victims who opened what appeared to be a statement of solidarity for the people of Tibet were secretly hit with attack code that exploited a flaw in Adobe's Acrobat software, said security researchers at F-Secure in a blog posting.
"It looked like it was coming from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). However, the e-mail headers were forged and the mail was coming from somewhere else altogether," wrote F-Secure.
Many pro-Tibet organizations have been targeted with these types of attacks in recent months, the company added. "This is not an isolated incident. Far from it," the company said. "These e-mails have been sent to mailing lists, private forums and directly to persons working inside pro-Tibet groups. Some individuals have received targeted attacks like this several times a month."
A similar type of attack was used last month to infect computers at a committee working on security at the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, according to security vendor MessageLabs.
Members of that committee were infected by a malicious Microsoft Word document that they then forwarded to other organizations, according to MessageLabs researcher Maksym Schipka. In that case, "the bad guys did not have to hack into the good guy's mail server, all they had to do was persuade them that the document was something interesting so that the good guys themselves would forward it on," he said.
It is not clear that there is any connection between the attack reported by MessageLabs and that reported by Save Darfur.
When contacted Friday regarding the Save Darfur incident, FBI Spokeswoman Debbie Weierman confirmed that the law enforcement agency was "looking into the matter."
How would you like 1TB of storage? While feasible enough when dealing with a desktop or server, getting such huge amount of storage in a laptop isn't all that easy. Samsung is one of the few companies trying to address this problem, and today they introduced an all new 500GB laptop hard drive that manages to squeeze three 167GB platters into a tiny amount of space.
The Spinpoint M6 is a standard 2.5” unit operating at 5400RPM, with a price tag not all that hard to swallow – a tad under $300. It also has a smaller but faster variant, the Spinpoint MP2, which is a 250GB unit spinning at 7200RPM. While Samsung isn't revealing any design wins immediately, it should only be a matter of time until vendors start to offer not only one but two drives inside a single machine for an effective one terabyte of storage. Other vendors have already done it, namely the Asus M70S laptop using two Hitachi drives.
Update: The download links are now live on Microsoft website, so you can grab Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista, Server 2008, Server 2003 SP2, or XP SP2.
Update #2: It appears to be that the Microsoft installer doesn't like the (supposedly unreleased) Service Pack 1 for Vista as it refuses to install in that platform. One of our readers has also suggested it won't want to install on XP SP3 either. We assume there are ways to circumvent this, just don't be alarmed if you get an error message.
In preparation for the impending launch of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Microsoft has set up a website detailing some of the improvements, changes and new features users can expect to see in the next version of its web browser including two new technologies dubbed WebSlices and Activities.
Activities give users ready access to third-party online services from any page they visit through a right-click contextual menu, allowing them to easily do things like retrieving an address map, submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page on Facebook, and so on. As for WebSlices, this new feature will enable users to crop a specific area on a website and bookmark it for future reference.
Other new features coming in IE8 Beta 1 include a new favorites bar, an improved phishing filter, and a new automatic crash recovery feature which brings back your tabs in case of a browser crash. The beta is widely expected to launch at this year’s Mix 08 which begins today. In fact, a download page is already up – though the links are not working as of this writing.
SELAMA ini, kita sering mendengar tentang virus komputer, tetapi akhir-akhir ini istilah virus telefon bimbit mula kedengaran dan dijangka akan menjadi popular di pendengaran anda.
Sungguhpun serangan virus telefon bimbit masih jarang, namun bahaya ancamannya kian berkembang seiring dengan peningkatan bilangan pengguna yang mengakses internet dan memuat turun fail dengan telefon bimbit mereka, kata pakar.
Satu tinjauan yang dikeluarkan pada minggu ini di Kongres Industri Mudah Alih Dunia di Barcelona, Sepanyol menunjukkan bahawa hanya 2.1 peratus pengguna telefon bimbit yang mengalami serangan virus. Mereka juga mendapati hanya 11.6 peratus pengguna mengetahui jika ada telefon bimbit kepunyaan rakan mereka diserang virus.
Kajian oleh pakar sekuriti teknologi maklumat (IT), McAfee, berasaskan 2,000 responden di Britain, Amerika Syarikat (A.S) dan Jepun itu juga menunjukkan bahawa 86.3 peratus daripada mereka tidak pernah berpengalaman diserang virus telefon bimbit.
Tinjauan tersebut bagaimanapun mencadangkan bahawa semakin pasaran telefon bimbit berkembang dengan peningkatan penggunaan internet dan muat turun, semakin cenderung untuk virus atau pepijat menyerang telefon bimbit.
Sebagai contoh, serangan virus di Jepun iaitu negara pasaran telefon bimbit paling membangun di dunia adalah yang paling biasa berbanding tempat-tempat lain.
"Kita patut melihat di Jepun masa kini yang mana ia merupakan gambaran teknologi mudah alih masa depan dunia," kata Graham Cluley, seorang perunding di Sophos, sebuah lagi firma sekuriti IT.
"Saya tidak terkejut, jika kita melihat masalah ini berkembang kerana telefon kini berkembang menjadi komputer mudah alih," tambahnya.
Laman web www.mobilephoneviruses.com yang mengesan insiden jangkitan virus telefon bimbit, menyenaraikan beberapa virus seperti Skulls, Velasco dan Commwarrior.
Sejenis virus juga telah menyerang kira-kira 110,000 telefon bimbit di Sepanyol tahun lalu, menyerang telefon bimbit yang dioperasikan dengan sistem operasi Symbian. Ia tersebar menerusi mesej MMS atau teks mesej mengandungi audio, video atau fail gambar.
"Virus bukanlah isu besar sekarang tetapi ia mempunyai potensi untuk menjadi polemik pada masa depan apabila penggunaan internet lebih meluas," kata penganalisa di syarikat penyelidikan pasaran Forrester, Pete Nuthall.
Industri telefon bimbit kian berkembang apabila pemilik telefon bimbit kini menggunakan telefon mereka lebih daripada sekadar membuat panggilan dan mengirim mesej.
Sedangkan, dua fungsi ini kian dipinggirkan di negara-negara maju dengan memberi tumpuan kepada penawaran fungsi internet, video, game dan pemetaan.
"Ia merupakan satu risiko yang memerlukan kita untuk berwaspada tetapi seseorang itu tidak wajar menjadikannya dramatik dan membimbangkan pengguna," kata Emmanuel Forgues dari kumpulan sekuriti IT Rusia, Kaspersky.
Menurutnya, ia adalah risiko yang wujud dan tentunya sedang berkembang.
Cluley berkata, terdapat kira-kira 350,000 virus telah ditulis untuk menyerang komputer-komputer yang beroperasi dengan Microsoft Windows dan lebih kurang 200 virus untuk sistem operasi telefon bimbit.
Virus-virus komputer biasa ditulis oleh geng-geng penjenayah untuk mencuri wang dan informasi peribadi, tetapi virus telefon bimbit menjadi gelanggang buat kanak-kanak menunjukkan kehebatan," katanya.
Seorang kanak-kanak lelaki berusia 12 tahun telah menulis sejenis virus untuk telefon iPhone Apple yang menghentikan operasinya dan 'menukarnya menjadi seperti batu'," kata Cluley, dan akibatnya, pengguna perlu ke laman internet kanak-kanak itu serta memuat turun perisian tertentu.
Menyorot sejarah, virus komputer telah mula dikenal pasti menjangkiti telefon bimbit pada tahun 2004, seperti mana yang dilaporkan oleh syarikat-syarikat pembangun antivirus.
Pembangun perisian sekuriti Russian dari Perancis, Kaspersky Labs berkata, virus tersebut yang dinamakan Cabir dipercayai dibangunkan oleh sebuah kumpulan penggodam antarabangsa yang digelar 29A.
Cabir lazimnya menjangkiti telefon bimbit bersistem operasi Symbian. Ia biasanya boleh berjangkit menerusi teknologi tanpa wayar bluetooth.
Apabila cecacing itu memasuki komputer, ia akan secara berterusan mengesan peranti-peranti yang dilengkapi khidmat bluetooth sekali gus mengurangkan jangka hayat bateri kerana aktiviti pengimbasan yang berterusan.
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Recently our local news station KNX 1070, broadcast a segment Who’s on MySpace – they spoke of the potential dangers our children face using the website MySpace. As a Microsoft consultant AND parent of two, I’ve been repeatedly approached by my clients to comment on “What should a parent do?” THE “REAL” DANGERS MySpace BACKGROUND A LITTLE PARENTAL PERSPECTIVE HOW TO SETUP YOUR CHILD’S MySpace ACCOUNT HOW TO VERIFY YOUR CHILD’S MySpace SETTINGS Show Gender? No Show Status? No Show Age? No Show Sign? No Show City? No Show State? No Show Country? No Show Signup Date? No Show Subscriptions? No Show Blog Groups? No ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Remember to continually read your child's MySpace account! Help your child learn how to approve their new MySpace friends. If you really want your kids to stop using MySpace and think it’s uncool – use MySpace yourself! (^_^)
NOTE: Be careful when entering the verification code – if you enter it incorrectly it will reset the “share your birthday” field!
Interests & Personality (Review and approve their writings – you don’t want to reveal too much)
Name (Ensure it’s an approved nickname)
Basic Info (Ensure their birthday is “incorrect” but still reflects their true year age. they’re there for “Friends” only, Do not answer Ethnicity, Body Type, and Height – these are not appropriate for children simply wanting to meet other children (predators can use this information)
Background & Lifestyle (Ensure that Marital Status = Single, Sexual Orientation = No Answer, Hometown = “blank”, Religion = No Answer, Smoker = No, Drinker = No, Children = No Answer, Education = No Answer, Income = No Answer]
Schools (Should be blank!)
Companies (Huh? Should be blank)
Networking (Should be blank)
Profile Songs (It’s up to you if you wish to allow your kids to share their music tastes)
Email Address (Verify you know this email address)
Change Password (I personally think you should know your child's password)
Notifications (Select “Do not send me notification emails”)
Newsletters (Select “Do not send me MySpace newsletters”)
Privacy Settings (Ensure that EVERYTHING is selected EXCEPT BOTH “Show My Birthday to my Friends” and “Who can view my profile: Anyone under 18 on MySpace”)
IM Privacy Settings (Ensure that either “No one can IM me” or “Only Friends can IM me” is selected)
Mobile Settings (Unselect ALL of these settings)
Groups Settings (Unselect this setting)
Calendar Settings (Doesn’t really matter)
Blocked Users (Periodically review this list of users that your child has banned/blocked)
Profile Views (Don’t reset your child’s counter – they’ll be rightfully upset)
Profile Settings (UNselect “Display Groups I belong to” and SELECT all THREE “Disable HTML Profile Comments”, “Disable HTML in Pic Comments”, “Disable HTML in Blog Comments”)
Music Settings (SELECT BOTH “Disable My Player from Automatically Starting”, “Disable Band Songs From Automatically Starting”)
Away Message (If used, ensure that you approve of the message being sent)
Time Zone Settings (Ensure that you have the correct time zone selected OR ensure that it matches your bogus zip code)
Under the Side Module section ensure that all of these settings are set to No
Resources invaluable to this article:
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource that teaches kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet. NetSmartz combines the newest technologies available and the most current information to create high-impact educational activities that are well received by even the most tech-savvy kids.
Online Friends – Other people on Xbox Live may want to add your child to their personal friends list. To manage approval of your child's online friends, you can require these requests to be approved by you. Communications – Manage who your child can communicate with on Xbox Live. Communication on Xbox Live includes chat, messages, and game invites using voice, video, or text. Gamer Profile Viewing – Decide whether your child can see other people's gamer profiles. A gamer profile includes information about a member's online achievements and game history. It can also contain a gamer's motto, which may be inappropriate for children. Gamer Profile Sharing – Decide who can see your child's gamer profile. Your child's gamer profile includes their motto and information about their online achievements and game history. Online Status – Decide whether other people can see your child's online status. If you allow others to see your child's online status, they can see your child's current online activity, such as the game they are playing and whether they are available to play a game. Online Games – To determine whether your child can play Xbox 360™ games with other players on Xbox Live. Member Content – Decide whether your child can access content created by other people on Xbox Live. Member content includes images and text in games and gamer profiles. Downloadable Content – Decide whether your child can download premium content from Xbox Live Marketplace. Premium content includes Xbox Live Arcade games, game extensions, demos, and other items. If you choose to block this content, your child can still obtain free downloadable content. General Family Settings
As parents we know there’s less chance of our children getting into trouble if they’re supervised. We search for licensed daycare, and are thrilled when our teenage babysitter is Red Cross Certified – instead of “pick-up games at the park” we prefer participation in “organized” sports, and of course, always visit a friend’s home only when a parent is present.
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