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Trailrunner7 writes "Despite the fact that the majority of [PDF-related] malware exploits use JavaScript to trigger an attack in Adobe's PDF Reader product, the company says it's impossible to complet

An anonymous reader writes ""Some hackers out there don’t like to do all the hard work of running a successful phishing campaign.

duguk writes "Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the 'black screen of death,' which affects Windows 7 — and reports suggest it affects Vista and XP, too.

What does a user cost? (OStatic)
It’s not about the gadget — it’s what you do with it (jkOnTheRun)
Cut the drama: private APIs, the App Store & you (TheAppleBlog)

Gamasutra is running an article with a collection of anecdotes from game developers who had to employ some quick and dirty fixes to get their products to ship on time.

The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet.

Julie188 writes "Here's a new idea to stop certification test-taking cheaters; Cisco is considering introducing a verbal interview portion to its CCIE lab exams across the world.

Joyce Park (left) & Adam Rifkin (right) by Ifindkarma via Flickr Renkoo, a Redwood City, Calif-based startup that is fast approaching its fourth birthday is rebooting…again.

Barence writes "The majority of dial-up Internet users say they don't want to upgrade their connection to broadband, according to a new study in the US.

It didn’t quite have the sentimental feeling of the Steve Jobs & Bill Gates talk from last year, but it was interesting to see the dynamic of Steve Ballmer & Bill Gates.

Last week I got a chance to sit down with John Lilly, the newly appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. We were slotted to chat a long time ago, but unfortunately life got in the way of reality.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET News has a piece in which AT&T claims that the Internet's bandwidth will be saturated by video-on-demand and such by 2010.

Back in December 2005, Google paid a whopping $1 billion to buy 5% of AOL from Time Warner. That valued AOL at a whopping $20 billion.

eldavojohn writes "If you're a Web developer, you should check out a quick post about the number of types, methods, & fields in the .NET framework. This was done using NDepend.

Slimjim100 writes "Last year at ChicagoCon 2007, Brian Wilson gave a great talk entitled "Cain & Abel: Windows Can Hack, Too!" Although the presentation and audio recording of the talk can be down