Ignorance Not Too Blissful, After All
Ignorance may be bliss for some, but according to this article in today’s Guardian, it can also cost big bucks, and get some folks in hot water: Insensitive computer programmers with little knowledge of geography have cost the giant Microsoft company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business and led hapless company employees to be arrested by offended governments. The …
Batten ‘Em Down, People
It looks like a variant of the MyDoom is kicking around the Internet again, folks: The MyDoom worm saga continued today with the release of yet another variant of the noxious email worm. The latest variant — MyDoom‑S (AKA MyDoom‑Q or MyDoom‑R) — poses as a funny photographs in order to dupe users into opening an infectious attachment called photos_arc.exe. …