AT&T vs. Fake Steve Jobs: iPhone-y Operation Chokehold on a roll

IT Blogwatch: AT&T vs. Fake Steve Jobs: iPhone-y Operation Chokehold on a roll
Fake Steve Jobs (aka Dan Lyons) is at it again. This time, he’s organizing a ’satirical’ protest against AT&T’s 3G network. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers find their own ways of wasting iPhone bandwidth. Not to mention how Tetris actually works …

The Security Paradox
Medium organizations around the globe are increasingly concerned about cyberthreats, and the rising number of incidents shared publicly certainly justifies their worries. In the first half of 2009, for example, McAfee® Labs saw almost as much new malware as it did in all of 2008. At the same time, most organizations have frozen or cut their IT security budgets. Threats up, budgets down. This is what we call the “security paradox.”

Table of Contents

• IT Blogwatch: AT&T vs. Fake Steve Jobs: iPhone-y Operation Chokehold on a roll
• Preston Gralla: Oops we did it again! Microsoft pulls stolen code
• Seth Weintraub: Microsoft’s Bing app meets Apple iPhone
• Tim McLaughlin: Team iPhone versus team Droid
• Michael Horowitz: LockNote offers really simple encryption
• Amir Lev: DNS blocklists and reputation services (part 1)
• IT News Podcast: Microsoft admits microblogging code stolen from Plurk
• Shark Tank: The seven-year itch

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Preston Gralla: Oops we did it again! Microsoft pulls stolen code
Microsoft has been targeting software pirates globally for years, but perhaps it’s time to look closer to home. The company has been forced to pull the plug on its Twitter-like micro-blogging site in China called Juku because approximately 80 percent of the code for it, as well as the overall design, was stolen from a competitor. I have comparison screenshots in my blog

Seth Weintraub: Microsoft’s Bing app meets Apple iPhone
The iPhone Bing.app from Microsoft is largely what you might expect. It does search and other Bing-y stuff like have the image of the day and trivia. It also has maps and a voice interface for input into maps which is something that the iPhone doesn’t have entirely yet.

Tim McLaughlin: Team iPhone versus team Droid
Form vs. function — it’s a classic challenge in the design world. When it comes to developing mobile devices, many designers would agree that consistency and an efficient user experience matter most. Smart phones like Apple iPhone reign supreme because the devices are easy to use, have tons of applications, and are developer friendly. Now that Motorola’s Droid is on the market, developers and technologists (myself included) are saying that the Apple iPhone has formidable competition. But perhaps we are getting ahead of ourselves.

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Michael Horowitz: LockNote offers really simple encryption
If you need to encrypt text data, such as a list of passwords, it doesn’t get any easier than LockNote, free, portable open source software for Windows.

Amir Lev: DNS blocklists and reputation services (part 1)
In the next three Security Levity posts, I want to talk about ’sender reputation’ and how it’s used to filter spam and other undesirable email. What is reputation, what’s a reputation service, and how is it different from good old-fashioned blocklists?

IT News Podcast: Microsoft admits microblogging code stolen from Plurk
In today’s podcast: Microsoft admits microblogging code stolen from Plurk; Dell delays closure of North Carolina PC plant; and Chinese domain registrar pledges crackdown on malicious sites.

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Shark Tank: The seven-year itch
This county government pilot fish has the job of maintaining the data that generates property-tax bills. That includes the task of copying the backups to new media every seven years — all 360 tapes.

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