Cludge - Slashdot User

Submission + - Spammers Target Dropbox Users: Another Data Breach? (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by Cludge on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:47PM

Cludge writes: Brian Krebs is reporting that, beginning Tuesday (July 17), European users of Dropbox were inundated with "casino" spam sent to addresses linked to the service. There are also reports that the service was intermittently off line today: "At around 3 p.m. ET, the company’s service went down in a rare outage, blocking users from logging into and accessing their files and displaying an error message on dropbox.com." Dropbox issued a statement late Tuesday that they are investigating the problem.

Submission + - Older = Wiser? Positive effects of aging on memory (utoronto.ca) 1

Submitted by Cludge on Thursday January 28, 2010 @09:24AM

Cludge writes: The news service of the University of Toronto reports a study on changes in memory skills that occur with age. Apparently, older brains have a weakened ability to filter out irrelevant information. But this may actually give aging adults a memory advantage over their younger counterparts. In computer-based memory tasks, in which words were paired with pictures, "The older adults showed a 30 per cent advantage over younger adults in their memory" for the paired words and pictures. "As this type of knowledge is thought to play a critical role in real world decision- making, older adults may be the wiser decision-makers compared to younger adults..."

Submission + - OS X iBotnet: Zombie Macs Launch DOS Attack

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Cludge

on Thursday April 16, 2009 @07:21PM

Cludge writes: "ZDNet has a story (and several related articles) about how Symantec has discovered evidence of an all-Mac based botnet that is actively involved in a DOS attack. Apparently, security on the exploited Macs (call them iBots?) was compromised when unwary users bit-torrented pirated copies of iWork 09 and Photoshop CS4 that contained malware. From the article: "They describe this as the "first real attempt to create a Mac botnet" and notes that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes." Read the story here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157"

Submission + - Mac Trojan prowls porn sites (computerworld.com)

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Cludge

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @03:36PM

Cludge writes: "As evidence that malware writers are taking more interest in Macs, a new Trojan has been spotted on porn sites. The trojan changes the Mac's DNS (Domain Name System) settings to redirect users to alternate or spoofed sites. From the article:

"The whole Trojan is relatively simple and works almost exactly the same as its brother for Windows," said Bojan Zdrnja, an analyst at Internet Storm Center (ISC) in a warning posted early Thursday. The DNSChanger exploit is well-known to Windows Trojan watchers. The bad guys are taking Mac seriously now," Zdrnja added. "This is a professional attempt at attacking Mac systems, and they could have been much more damaging.""

Comment Re:So (Score 1) 52

by Cludge on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @04:51PM (#20828741) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Toronto, ON, CA

I will be there! Just moved up from the states. Glad to see an active Slash community here. I work in a department at U of T where no one's heard of Slashdot! It's pretty lonely for a programmer/geek!

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