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Submission + - DNSChanger Trojan Infections at Half of All Fortune 500s, US Govt Agencies (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by tsu doh nimh
tsu doh nimh writes: Two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies. Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash. company that sells security services, found evidence of at least one DNSChanger infection in computers at half of all Fortune 500 firms, and 27 out of 55 major government entities. Computers still infected with DNSChanger are up against a countdown clock. As part of the DNSChanger botnet takedown, the feds secured a court order to replace the Trojan’s DNS infrastructure with surrogate, legitimate DNS servers. But those servers are only allowed to operate until March 8, 2012. Unless the court extends that order, any computers still infected with DNSChanger may no longer be able to browse the Web. The FBI is currently debating whether to extend the deadline or let it expire.
Idle

Submission + - Chinese boy with cats-eyes has night vision. (discovermagazine.com) 2

Submitted by Oswald McWeany
Oswald McWeany writes: Reports swirling around the interenet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cats when a light is shined on them. No reports yet if he marks his territory by peeing on the sofa.
DRM

Submission + - Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week (itproportal.com) 2

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will be Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7. The Mac games that will be broken during this period are Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers. This move was announced this week as part of a community letter, with Ubisoft describing how the data servers for many of the publisher's online services would be migrated from third party facilities to a new location starting on the 7th February. The publisher didn't reveal how long the transfer would take.
Open Source

Submission + - Perl Gets $100,000 From a grateful craigslist (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation.
craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course Perl.
So you could see this as a successful enterprise giving something back to open source — which is how it should be.

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