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Terrapin Networks - Moving IT Forward Archives: June 2007

29 June 2007

All the iPhone iHype that’s fit to print!

Wow…a new dawning has arrived. Life is different now…the Apple iPhone is coming, and nearly here! Or something like that.
Just think: if you lived in San Francisco, you could be living in the “iLine” right now…
San Franciscans waiting in line for the iPhone to go on sale at 6pm local time

Of course, us northern Michiganders [...]

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19 June 2007

New nasty-gram out there: another trojan attack to keep an eye on

“MPack Trojan Attack Claims 10,000 Web Sites”
Lots of talk out there on this ‘MPack’ trojan attack. Keep your eyes peeled on this one.
This is a ‘drive-by’ attack, where just visiting an infected site can grab your computer for the virus writer’s rotten motives. And as it says above, there are now 10,000 infected sites (as [...]

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11 June 2007

Let’s be careful out there: Beware of phony Microsoft Security Alerts

We saw this last month, too, and it caused some big problems. If you receive an email claiming to be a Microsoft Security Alert, it isn’t.
Here is the main part of this story:
The e-mail messages claim to describe a “Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer” that fixes a critical security flaw in the browser. It [...]

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6 June 2007

Cute: eBay has iPhone auctions…’cept there ain’t no iPhones yet!

PC World (and others) are noting how there are auctions for iPhones and iPhone accessories on eBay, but of course, the iPhone isn’t available and won’t be released until June 29.
So I guess these are “vapor-auctions”?
Fun story — see it here

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