Infosec Practitioner
It’s been an interesting week, so lets just take a moment to toss out a few thoughts. First thing is the whole patent wars that are going on now. I find it awful, stupid and deplorable. This is what happens when companies are afraid of each other. Instead of working on making things better and…
The patent world is a jumbled mess. Companies are suing companies left and right. In the end, the consumer and economy get hurt. News broke yesterday that Apple has won a round in the patent infringement case against HTC. HTC of course is appealing. Meanwhile HTC has purchased S3 to sue Apple. Kodak has sued…
“I’ll make them an offer, they can’t refuse.” Remember that line? Well it seems that the TDL-4 botnet is using the same line, and very effectively. TDL-4 has over 4.5 Million Zombies according to recent reports. It removes Malware it doesn’t like. It hides in the MBR of a machine, making it difficult to remove….