"Two weeks ago, Brazilian federal police descended on the northern city of Campina Grande and several surrounding states, and arrested 55 people — at least 9 of them …” “.. The fraud ring stole about $4.7 million from 200 different accounts at six banks since it began operations last May, according to the Brazilian police. A similar ring, broken up by Russian authorities earlier this month, used keylogging software planted in e-mail messages and hidden in Web sites to draw over $1.1 million from personal bank accounts in France. "
Microsoft is going to integrate the Python programming language for the .NET platform, its codename IronPython.
…According to the SIG, "true name" identity theft occurs when someone fraudulently obtains personal information and uses it to open up a new credit card account, cell phone service, etc …"
"The virus can be a nuisance in a couple of ways. On a PC, it will copy itself into the registry repeatedly as the machine is rebooted, according to the text file sent with the virus. As the virus replicates, it can eventually hamper the machine’s performance, it said.
The virus waits for a connection through ActiveSync, the Microsoft Corp. program that synchronizes data on a PC with a mobile device. It copies itself to the device, and if the device is running the Windows CE or Mobile OS, all files are erased in the My Documents directory, the note said. The virus was written using C# code with Visual Studio .Net 2003. "
How secure is open source?
…Being able to view the underlying software code can improve security, the information technology strategy and policy consultant at the University of Otago, Neil James, acknowledges. “The more people who spend time looking through the code, the better potential there is for finding holes.”… "