Battle over trojan code

Mobile antivirus researchers and antivirus companies are at loggerheads over access to code for a PC-to-mobile Trojan. The Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA) said that it had received proof-of-concept code last week for Crossover, which MARA claims is malicious software that can jump from a Windows desktop machine to a Windows Mobile Pocket PC handheld. … [Read more…]

Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes

Gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings,” according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the … [Read more…]

Apple confesses

Apple UK doesn’t believe PCs are as naff as its Stateside parent company does. Don’t believe us? Just take a look at the company’s TV adverts for Intel-based Macs. In the original, US-oriented ad, Apple takes a dig at “dull” PCs, but in the version cleared for UK audiences the d-word is peculiarly absent. Compare … [Read more…]

Microsoft hints at Origami date

The veil of mystery surrounding Microsoft’s secretive Origami portable device lifted just a little Thursday after the firm updated the project’s cryptic Web site, hinting that all would be revealed on March 9.