Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to widespread Web attacks that were reported by McAfee recently (check yesterday's post). As discussed earlier, the pages are infected with malicious code that tries to install a password stealing software on the PCs of people who visit the sites. Reportedly 20,000 websites have been attacked.
Researchers are still not sure how the attackers are managing to hack these Web pages, but the pages all seem to use Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology (Oh, not again, screw you Microsoft!!!), which is used by many Web development programs to create dynamic HTML pages. A software bug in any of those programs is all the attackers need to install their malicious code.
It's embarrassing when security vendors fall victim to the attacks they are supposed to prevent, but Trend Micro is not the only company to have had its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA's Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack.
My last appeal to Microsoft: Please develop more softwares rather than more bugs. Huh, when will you people understand??
Microsoft buys Rapt for its Ad management tools:
Days after Google made a deal with DoubleClick (check previous posts), Microsoft buys Rapt, of San Francisco. Rapt sells advertising yield management tools for online media companies. The tools are designed to predict demand for advertising and optimize the price and placement of ads, improving revenue. Microsoft plans to incorporate Rapt's tools and consultancy business into its Atlas Publisher Suite. That will allow it to offer publishers an integrated service to manage advertising sales, it said.
Yahoo said that they are considering the new $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft (check below) and Rapt will work along with Yahoo if there is a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. But if there isn't any merger, then Rapt will be a stiff competitor to Yahoo's online ads.
For the sake of outgoing MS chief, Bill Gates, I want the Yahoo deal to be done. But $44.6 billion is too much. Screw Yahoo!!!
Talks between Yahoo and MS?
A month after Yahoo rejected its $42 billion deal, Microsoft has approached Yahoo again with a new $44.6 billion deal. Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo and Microsoft executives met this week to discuss about the latest cash and stock bid from Microsoft.
According to me, there are several advantages of this merger and it can give a competition to Google's supremacy in online search. I personally don't like the way Google searches the content. Too much of useless pages and it takes hell lot of time to finally locate what we need. Screw Google!!!
What's your view, should the deal be done or not?
Snippets:
- Companies rarely use the 802.1x access protocol in Wi-Fi connections and thus leave the door open for hackers.
- Red Hat Linux tests its new Linux update.
- IBM unveils its SMash technology to secure software mashups.
- Boston Acoustics announces two new PC speaker systems.
- Although Apple updated its MacBook Air this week with a fix for the laptop's fan, some owners of the ultra-thin notebook continue to report that their machines overheat.
- Sustainability and other energy matters are priorities in many firms, but the cost is stalling progress, a survey says.
- A new software from UK's Access Accounting calculates carbon footprint.
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