WPP is a 'Flea Bite'
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WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell drew the battle lines against Google, only to insist his 9bn company was 'just a little flea bite' compared to the Internet search giant.
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UK-based advertising giant WPP is to buy US rival Grey Global in a deal worth $1.31bn . New York based Grey Global is the world&#39;s seventh largest advertising company and has a number of blue-chip clients, including Procter &amp; Gamble, 3M and Warner Bros.
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According to the Microsoft site, the vulnerabilty in WordPad allows an attacker to âtake complete control of the affected systemâ.
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UK regulator probes pay-by-phone extortion A new strain of "Ransomware" that attempts to coerce victims into paying $35 to unlock their Windows PC, is doing the rounds.â¦
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To see the e-mail I get every day from readers about security issues is to develop a deep discomfort with the state of computing today. Keeping a Windows PC safe can demand a high degree of vigilance. -Rob Pegoraro
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Tycho:  I don't know whose fault it is exactly, mine or theirs, but I won't be installing Vista anytime soon.  I would like some crazy shit to happen when I minimize something don't get me wrong.  I want my windows to go Waja-wajow(!) is possible.  But if there's a great reason to "trade horses midstream" or whatever the going metaphor is I haven't discovered it.
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We are all used to IE getting a monthly new security bug found, but Winamp? In fact, this is not the first security flaw found in the application.
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SoTuA writes &quot;Few months after SP2 hit windowsupdate.com, Finjan Software reports that security flaws have been found in WinXP SP2, including malicous code execution without user intervention.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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One of Russia's fastest growing markets, and quite possibly a contributor to stabilizing that country's fickle economy, is cut-rate, self-deploying Trojan horse packages.  This morning, security engineers are sounding the alarm about one such package that customers appear to be purchasing in order to conduct possible identity theft attacks, by leveraging Italian media sites as unsuspecting middlemen...with the equally unsuspecting help of Google.
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PivX Solutions, Inc. of Newport Beach, California, on Monday announced the availability of Qwik-Fix Pro, an intrusion prevention software product for Windows machines that disables or modifies features of Microsoft Corp. Windows and the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that are frequent targets of malicious computer hackers and virus writers.
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Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver âMake Love No Spamâ will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding
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A number of serious security threats have been reported in Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows and Internet Explorer, including a Trojan horse that can infect Windows XP and allow an attacker to remotely control a user's system.
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Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent &#8216;click fraud&#8217; or fraudulent clicks on a YSM contextual targeting account.  Instead of calling the mystery clicks fraudulent, Yahoo instead granted a refund of the questioned marketing spend in the name [...]
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Sinn Fein has accused the British government of planting a bugging device in one of its Belfast offices. It is the second time in as many weeks that the Northern Irish party has produced what it claims is evidence of continued bugging by Downing Street.
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A new Trojan horse - named Phel - that punishes users of Microsoft Windows XP operating system is in the wild. Security software firm Symantec has issued a bulletin warning Windows XP users to be on the look
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Yet another Trojan horse is luring the Internet with a need to infect Symbian based smart phones. SimWorks International, an anti-virus firm, issued an alert earlier this week informing the users of the Trojanâs existence.