Friday, 4 November 2011

Microsoft fixes Duqu virus

According to a security advisory issued by Microsoft yesterday, the Duqu virus that has been creating havoc, has been finally brought to book by Microsoft, albeit temporarily. The virus, which was deemed critical managed to install a highly sophisticated malware, which attempted to victimize manufacturers of industrial systems. Microsft adds that the vulnerability was found in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine. The malware was such, that it could enable the attacker to run a code in the kernel mode.

Steve Jobs : 1955-2011

Steve Jobs was born in 1955, into an era of rotary phones and room-size computers. He died on Oct. 5, 2011, having put a computer inside a phone and that phone into 120 million pockets.
Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, and while he went to characteristic lengths to control public knowledge about the details of his condition, he could not hide his physical deterioration. First he underwent surgery and took a leave of absence. When he returned as chief executive