Tag: KASPERSKY

Describing a piece of code as the "best malware ever" seems a bit oxymoronic, but Stuxnet might actually fit the bill. The malware has been operating undetected since early this year. In June, it was finally identified by a small security company in Belarus called VirusBlokAda. By early August, Microsoft had confirmed and patched an exploit that Stuxnet was using to target PCs running Windows, but ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... HTC's's much-hyped Evo 4G for Sprint officially arrives June 4th, with a $199 post-rebate price. Yesterday, Sprint revealed the model's default specs, which include a 1-gigahertz processor, an 8-megapixel camera, video chat capabilities and an 8-gigabyte SD card. The phone also awesomely lets users link up to eight other devices ...

Celebrities often sell themselves to corporations in order to earn some quick and easy bucks, sometimes even straying from the predictable genre of fashion accessories into the domain of technology. Many of those ventures seem uncomfortable and strange, like the Seinfeld-Microsoft pairing or the banned-in-the-U.S. Christina Aguilera Virgin Mobile ad. Some can actually be successful and humorous, ...