Gkaruk's Technological Blog

The BBC has an interesting article up today relating to the way virus coders are changing the reason they write a viruses for.  In the good old days it was about showing how cleaver your were to write a piece of malicious code, gain the largest spread and biggest headline.

Today virus coders are now writing viruses for financial gain with the aim to remain hidden from virus software and detection.  The more common known name for this type of code is Spyware, but these new viruses are much more than just spying on your PC.

For the full article and an interesting read, head over to the BBC article.

In a recent report by SecurityFocus.com, a sophisticated computer hacker had access to the servers at T-Mobile for at least a year, where he monitored the Security Service.

Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen could access information on any of the Bellevue, Washington-based company's 16.3 million customers, including customers' Social Security numbers, DOB, voicemail PINs, Celebrity cell phone images.

Head over to SecurityFocus.com and read the full article.