2006.11.07 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Nov.07, 2006, under Security
OSX.Macharena virus targets Mac OS users
Mac OS security company Intego has issued a warning about MACHARENA proof-of-concept virus, which has not yet been seen in the wild, was published on a hacker Web site.
The recent surge in spam volume is due to the assertiveness of botnets and to an increase in the sophistication of their spamming efforts.
HSDPA may finally deliver a small piece of wireless utopia… technology promises wireless speeds as high as 3.6 Mbps.
Login Code of Conduct Found Not Binding
The Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales, Australia, has ordered a company to reinstate an employee who downloaded porn onto a work laptop, even though it was in contravention of his workplace’s code of conduct. From the article: the IRC said there was an ‘air of automatically’ about the annual signing off of employees on NCR’s code of conduct, ‘a degree of mechanical, unthinking routine in employees making a commitment to abide by the code.’ So, I think most of us can agree, porn at work == bad, but recognition that Click EULAs/other agreements are not binding is probably good. The question is — what replaces them?
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