Delay Windows 7 upgrade, support firm advises
Users should wait for Microsoft to work out the bugs in Windows 7 before jumping on the new operating system, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based computer support company said today.
"From the calls we're getting, as well as our own experience in the past with all Microsoft's operating systems, we're recommending that people stick with their time-tested OS and wait for the dust to settle," said Josh Kaplan, president of Rescuecom.
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One year on, Conficker worm claims 7 million infected computers
The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone: It has now infected more than 7 million computers, security experts estimate.
On Thursday, researchers at the volunteer-run Shadowserver Foundation logged computers from more than 7 million unique IP addresses, all infected by the known variants of Conficker.
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Survey: High-tech hardware spending returns, but not IT jobs
IT decision makers will be investing in hardware in the coming six months, according to recent research, but high-tech executives say staffing will remain flat as companies not only slow the pace of jobs cuts but also hold off on new hires.
Podcast: Have IT budgets hit bottom yet?
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Former YouSendIt CEO charged in denial of service attack on firm
Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of YouSendIt, has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of mail fraud after allegedly launching four DoS attacks against the company's servers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Shaikh allegedly used the ApacheBench software program to launch the DoS attacks against YouSendIt's servers between December 2008 and June, the DOJ said in a press release.
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Microsoft: Why rising bug fixes is a sign of its security success
Microsoft Corp. pours more money into software security than any other major vendor both because it has to and because it can. Yet for all the investments in security, the number of vulnerabilities discovered in the company's products has increased over the years, prompting questions over whether the company has reached the limits of its ability to debug software.
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Facebook awarded $711 million from convicted spammer
Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages from a convicted spammer on Thursday, but the social networking site is hoping a separate criminal action will eventually send him to jail.
Sanford Wallace was sued by Facebook in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for allegedly obtaining the login credentials for accounts. The accounts were then used to send spam to those users' friends starting around November 2008.
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