'Zlob' malware hijacks YouTube

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News: 'Zlob' malware hijacks YouTube
News: COMMUNICASIA: DRM drags down economy, Linden CTO says
News: Lawmakers question DHS ability to protect its networks
News: United planes downed by computer glitch
News: Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker
News: Xerox aims to understand text to improve search results
News: Dell replaces displays on nine notebook models
News: Security concerns prompt French BlackBerry ban
Green IT: Amazon, eBay and Apple at bottom of climate change list
Green IT: HP FORUM: HP thinks green with storage array lineup
ITWhirled: Ringtones soothe the savage beast


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'Zlob' malware hijacks YouTube
YouTube is again being used to distribute malware, this time a variant of the nuisance Zlob adware.


COMMUNICASIA: DRM drags down economy, Linden CTO says
Digital-rights management (DRM) drags down economic growth, and countries that back the technology are doomed to lag behind, a top Linden Research Inc. executive said Thursday.


Lawmakers question DHS ability to protect its networks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CIO was on the hot seat Wednesday on Capitol Hill after an independent audit found that a database that screens U.S. visitors lacked security controls.


United planes downed by computer glitch
United Air Lines Inc. was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed.


Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker
Symantec Corp. has emerged from its bunker in the British countryside, moving its malware-fighting operations from a former U.K. military nuclear shelter to a more conventional office in Reading.


Xerox aims to understand text to improve search results
Xerox Corp. researchers have developed a search tool that tries to understand documents, rather than looking for keywords, in order to provide better results.


Dell replaces displays on nine notebook models
Dell Inc. is offering free replacements of the displays on nine popular notebook PC models, responding to customers who created a Web site to complain that some LCD screens developed a one pixel-wide vertical line.


Security concerns prompt French BlackBerry ban
French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday's elections.


GREEN IT

Amazon, eBay and Apple at bottom of climate change list
Bad news for environmentally conscious people who want an iPhone: Apple Inc. is near the bottom of a new list that rates companies based on their efforts to stop climate change.


HP FORUM: HP thinks green with storage array lineup
There are two clearly emerging trends coming out of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP Americas StorageWorks Conference this week: HP's going green, and the future is in blades.


ITWHIRLED

Ringtones soothe the savage beast
When leopards get too close to villages in India, conservation officers lure them into traps and release them back into the wild away from human habitation. Traditionally, those traps have been baited with live chickens, goats, or cows; but now, since you can just download ringtones that sound like chickens, goats, or cows to your cell phones, these animals need no longer be sacrificed to the hungry jungle cats.