[Hamton]

Originally Posted by FilipH

Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again) | Threat Level from Wired.com

If only they had Vista

So there are idiots in space too?

Technically that was a worm not a virus. Having their firewall down for two minutes would have been enough to contract it. A firewall, rather than a virus scanner, is what would have prevented it. The scanner would just tell you it's there and removed it afterwards...

Prevention is better than cure, and anti-virus software doesn't really prevent anything.

[gunsnroses]

Read this in today's news -
NEW YORK: A security flaw in Apple Inc's iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way.

Popular technology blog Gizmodo and an online forum run by the Mac Rumors site showed that it took only three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which run the latest 2.02 iPhone software.

A spokeswoman said in an e-mail that Apple was aware of the problem and was readying a software update to fix it. In the meantime, she recommended users set the iPhone's "Home" button to open up the phone's iPod music collection rather than the phone's "Favorites" menu.

The spokeswoman did not say when the software update would be made available.

The flaw could be seen as a momentary setback in Apple's ambitious plans to compete against Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry smartphone has become a standard issue device in corporate businesses around the globe.

Earlier in August, technology research firm Gartner issued a report that said iPhone's software had met Gartner's minimum requirements for business support, although some issues persisted. The author of the report, Ken Dulaney, was not immediately reachable.