Free Tibet' Message Masks Rootkit Malware

Watch out if you receive an e-mail with a Flash animation ridiculing a Chinese gymnast and calling for a free Tibet. It's likely the entertaining little clip is hiding a piece of malware that will log your keystrokes. Security experts are warning that malware creators are taking advantage of the news coverage of the Tibet freedom protests to get you to let your guard down.

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CNN Web site targeted

CNN was targeted Thursday by attempts to interrupt its news Web site, resulting in countermeasures that caused the service to be slow or unavailable to some users in limited areas of Asia.

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Who's Watching You at Work?

Even if you think you've mastered the art of minimizing your browser
the second your boss rounds the corner, every click you make may be
monitored by your employer. In fact, most businesses say they do
monitor workers' use of the office's Internet access, phone systems,
etc. Whether or not that means trouble is all a matter of context, of
course, but what constitutes reasonable use is sticky question.

"Surveillance is now routine
business practice among American employers, both large and small, as
the cost and ease of introducing have dropped. You leave your rights at
the office door every day you go to work. Most surveillance is
conducted without any individualized suspicion, and personal as well as
business-related information is routinely collected," explained Jeremy
Gruber, legal director at the National Workrights Institute.

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Espionage Against Pro-Tibet Groups, Others, Spurred Microsoft Patches

SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer intruders targeting pro-Tibetan groups,
U.S. defense contractors and government agencies slipped in through
previously unknown security holes in Microsoft Office, prompting
Microsoft to issue a flurry of patches to the popular software suite in
2006 and 2007, according to computer security experts.

These attacks, which appeared to have originated in China, began in
early 2006 when the attackers started sending e-mails to victims with
booby-trapped Word documents and Excel spreadsheets attached.

"We are seeing more and more spying done with Trojans, a shift that has
happened in the last two years," Mikko Hyppönen, the chief research
officer for software security vendor F-Secure, told RSA conference
attendees Thursday morning.

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Where's Wally? for the Google Earth generation

The striking young man - never without his red-and-white-striped top, bobble hat, walking stick and glasses - had a habit of turning up in the most unlikely and crowded of places, from ancient Aztec kingdoms to medieval battlefields.

But now a Canadian artist has brought the game into the 21st Century, by painting an enormous Wally that can be seen by Google Earth satellites.

The 55ft figure was installed on an undisclosed rooftop in Vancouver last month, sparking a flurry of interest among internet users keen to be the first to spot this Web 2.0 Wally.

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Couple Sues Google Over Street View Pics, Claims Mental Distress

Pictures of a western Pennsylvania couple's home have appeared on
Google's Street View, and the couple is not happy. Aaron and Christine
Boring are suing the search giant for devaluing their property and
violating their privacy with the photos.

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