New ZeuS-based Trojan leeches cash from cloud-based payrolls
April 12th, 2012 | 
Author: Cybercrooks have forged a ZeuS-based Trojan that targets cloud-based payroll service providers.
ZeuS, a favourite tool for financially motivated cybercrooks, has provided a straightforward way to harvest online banking credentials for years. A new attack, detected by transaction security firm Trusteer, shows that crooks are going up the food chain.
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Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
Auschwitz survivor who built best-selling PC
The founder of Commodore, one of the driving forces in the early history of the personal computers, has died at the age of 83.
Tramiel, born in 1928 as Jacek Trzmiel to a Jewish family in Poland, emigrated to the US after the Second World War after losing his parents in Hitler’s camps. Tramiel spent time at Auschwitz and at a German labor camp before it was liberated by the US Army in the closing stages of the war. He came to the US and joined the army before setting up his own business, Commodore Business Machines, selling typewriters.
Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1bn
‘Don’t worry,’ Zuckerberg says, ‘we won’t assimilate them’
Facebook has announced that it will acquire photo-sharing service Instagram in a $1bn cash-and-stock deal.
“I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement announcing the acquisition of what the release referred to as the “fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices.”
Zuckerberg said that Facebook will not merely borg Instagram into the Facebook brand. “We need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook,” he wrote, noting that his company is “committed to building and growing Instagram independently.”
Instagram won’t be solely a Facebook-centric service, he wrote. Instagram users will still be able to to post to other social networks, and if an Instagram user doesn’t want to share his or her photos on Facebook, that’s okay with Zuckerberg. Intagram users will also still be able to follow, and be followed, separately from their Facebook presence.
Ivy Bridge iMacs coming in June
Apple is all set to refresh its iMac line with Ivy Bridge processors, the next step on from Sandy Bridge, and those machine will be arriving this June.
That’s the latest word from that ever-present peddler of far east rumours, Digitimes. Apparently, Digitimes heard that sources who spoke to the Economic Daily News told the publication that both Quanta and Foxconn were expected to benefit considerably from the production of the new iMac.
