Scareware Mac Trojan tries to bite Apple users
Scareware Mac Trojan tries to bite Apple users
Mac OS X is not, on the whole, known as an OS which attracts too many problems when it comes to malware. However, in the last few days there has been something of a scare involving the Immunizator Trojan. According to IT security specialists Sophos this may well just be a case of one bad apple which should not induce panic amongst users. Sophos reports that the Troj/MacSwp-B Trojan, if you want to be formal about naming, appears to try and scare Mac users by claiming there are privacy issues on your computer and the cure is to purchase some software which is not in fact required. “Windows…
Google tool lets you probe deep into YouTube video stats
Google has today announced the launch a tool to answer the kind of questions anyone posting video clips to YouTube are always asking, such as: who viewed my video, how did they find it, where did they come from? YouTube Insight is free, and enables anyone with a YouTube account and that includes users, partners and advertisers, to see detailed stats clips that they have uploaded. Stats such as how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, or maybe how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. This looks really cool, especially…
Bits of Here and There: LifeDev on Alltop and Leo’s New Ebook
Just wanted to take a short post on some happenings. First off, Guy Kawaski notified me that LifeDev has been added to the lifehacks.alltop.com page. Very, very cool. You can also find many of the LifeRemix cronies taking part as well. If you haven’t checked out AllTop, a PopUrls on crack, if you will, take […]
Just wanted to take a short post on some happenings. First off, Guy Kawaski notified me that LifeDev has been added to the lifehacks.alltop.com page. Very, very cool. You can also find many of the LifeRemix cronies taking part as well. If you haven’t checked out AllTop, a PopUrls on crack, if you will, take a second to do it. It’s quite handy.
Secondly, good buddy Leo has released the Zen Habits Handbook for Life, a 76-page piece of zen goodness. It’s some of his best articles over the past year at Zen Habits, and it doesn’t disappoint. Seriously, check it out. You won’t be sorry.
Anonymous griefers induce epileptic seizures using JavaScript
I am not an easily shockable person. Anyone who knows me, anyone who has seen me, will understand this. Indeed, other than the usual trio of sexual or racial abuse and mindless violence it takes a lot to drop my jaw in shame and despair while browsing the web. However, a bunch of numbnut griefers managed to achieve just that over the weekend when they used a combination of JavaScript coding and flashing animations with the intent to trigger fits amongst the users of an epilepsy support website. According to reports one user suffered her worst epileptic attack in 12 months when she clicked on…
The black Google is back, and this time it’s official
Check it out Google has turned the lights out and gone black, but it is only for today it seems. Apparently it is all in a good cause: Earth Hour which invites people around the world to switch off their lights for an hour during the course of Saturday 29th March. That hour is between 8pm and 9pm in whatever your local time zone is. “Given our company’s commitment to environmental awareness and energy efficiency, we strongly support the Earth Hour campaign, and have darkened our homepage today to help spread awareness of what we hope will be a highly successful global event” a Google…