(Reuters) – Dell Inc warned of a challenging second half and slashed its full-year earnings outlook as customers cut back on computer purchases ahead of the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 8 software, sending its shares down more than 4 percent. Dell – once the world’s top PC maker and a pioneer in computer supply chain […]
Virus found in Middle East that can spy on finance transactions
(Reuters) – A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab. Dubbed Gauss, the virus may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was built in the same laboratories as Stuxnet, […]
Yahoo breach puts users of other sites at risk
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc reported the theft of some 400,000 user names and passwords to access websites including its own, saying that hackers had taken advantage of a security vulnerability in its computer systems. The security firm Rapid7 said a data file published on the Web contained logins and cleartext passwords for Yahoo as well […]
Virus could black our nearly 250,000 PCs
(Reuters) – About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential “blackout” and describing […]