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- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?Today
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I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about HCL's 'Employee First' management innovations: I previously met HCL CEO Vineet Nayar at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference in July. Nayar has blazed a trail of innovations with HCL, leading the way in turning his company’s organizational ‘pyramid’ upside down from a management perspective. The CEO and senior management roles have been reduced to accountable team members - Nayar believes the people at the widest point of the company pyramid are the most important. HCL therefore...
- Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0Today
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Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving its authenticity. Guess what happens when a gullible end user falls victim into this social engineering attack? Their credit card details end up automatically into an IRC channel specifically set for that purposes. Some of changes in the new version include more legitimately looking color scheme, improved restrictions making it much harder for the end user to close the application without submitting their credit card details, built-in validation of credit...
- Judge tosses Psystar's countersuitToday
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A federal judge has tossed out a countersuit filed by Mac clone maker Psystar, which alleged that Apple was engaging in anticompetitive business practices by controlling both the hardware and software that makes up the Macintosh computer line. Psystar was given 20 days - until Dec. 8 - to amend its complaint to convince the judge that it has a more solid argument for its countersuit. The judge rejected the countersuit, in part, over the allegation that Apple's operating system is so unique that it has no "actual or potential competitors," noting that Psystar did not present facts to support that claim. (PDF of ruling) Apple sued Psystar in July, alleging copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement, breach of contract,...
- Apple dodges antitrust bulletToday
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A California judge has granted Apple's motion to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims that the company violated antitrust laws by blocking third-parties from selling Mac OS-based systems.
- Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fireToday
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Just like every decent marketer out there, vendors of commercial malware tools are very good at positioning their tools. However, their pitches often contradict with themselves in a way that what's promoted as a Remote Administration Tool, has in fact built-in antivirus software evading capabilities, rootkit functionality and tutorials on how to remotely infect users over email. This fake positioning is finally receiving the necessary attention. CyberSpy Software LLC, a popular vendor of such commercial spyware tools has been recently targeted by the U.S Federal Trade Commission, with the company's sites shut down already. Wish it was that simple. "Defendants touted RemoteSpy as a “100% undetectable” way to “Spy on Anyone. From Anywhere.” According to the FTC complaint, the defendants...