Microsoft takes down Zeus botnets, but censors Pirate Bay links in Messenger

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	Microsoft takes down Zeus botnets, but censors Pirate Bay links in Messenger From the Microsoft good news department, the Redmond giant seized Zeus botnet C&C servers. The bad news? Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger is blocking links to The Pirate Bay torrents. Torrent Freak says Microsoft is "actively monitoring" IMs and singled out TPB links as "unsafe," a form of censorship. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC 5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft moves to slow Google Apps Mozilla sets end of Firefox for Win2K, early XP Microsoft leads seizure of Zeus-related cybercrime servers What happened to the Windows 8 critic? Ransomware: The latest trend in malware Microsoft's ads, humor boost consumer opinion of IE Late May claim for Windows 8 RC jibes with expected timetable Microsoft, Nokia will spend $24 million on university program to boost app development CIA wants to spy on you through your appliances You consent to a search if a camera sees you? Facial Recognition vs 4th Amendment Windows 8 update: Dell thinks it can sell Windows 8 tablets RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. Microsoft moves to slow Google Apps Microsoft is cutting the price of its own cloud-based service, Office 365, to improve its chances of success in the enterprise market and to stave off competition from Google Apps, analysts say. Read More Mozilla sets end of Firefox for Win2K, early XP Next month's Firefox 12 will be the last version of Mozilla's browser to run on early editions of Windows XP and the 12-year-old Windows 2000. Read More Microsoft leads seizure of Zeus-related cybercrime servers Microsoft and several partners disrupted cybercrime rings that used a notorious piece of malicious software called Zeus to steal US$100 million over the last five years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Meraki Application Traffic Shaping in a Campus WLAN Meraki is the only wireless LAN to include a Layer 7 application-aware traffic shaper, empowering organizations to limit apps like BitTorrent while prioritizing critical services. Learn how Rainbow School District utilized this technology to control iPads and facilitate learning activities. Learn more. What happened to the Windows 8 critic? Last week, a number of news outlets ran a story on a blog called Fixing Windows 8, a Tumblr site run by user interface designer and former Microsoft employee Michael Bibik. One week later, and the HTML page for fixingwindows8.com is blank except for one character, a period. If you view the source, it's also just one character, a period. Read More Ransomware: The latest trend in malware If the software industry showed as much innovation and initiative as the malware business, we might have some really nice software to choose from. But for now, the bad guys are one step ahead of the rest of us, with a new way to squeeze money out of your pocket. Read More Microsoft's ads, humor boost consumer opinion of IE Microsoft's recent campaigns touting Internet Explorer 9 have moved IE's quality perception needle for U.S. adults, according to BrandIndex, a brand quality measurement company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations This paper discusses ways to simplify data center transformation and introduces a new process – BOCA – Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions. Learn the five stages of BOCA and see how the right remote access and IT infrastructure management tools, deployed early and continuously monitored, can dramatically improve overall efficiency. Read now! Late May claim for Windows 8 RC jibes with expected timetable Microsoft will launch the "release candidate" of Windows 8 in late May or early June, according to a Saturday report by a Dutch blog. Read More Microsoft, Nokia will spend $24 million on university program to boost app development Microsoft and Nokia will invest up to a!18 million (US$24 million) in a new mobile application development program at Finland's Aalto University during the next three years, with the goal of helping create applications for Windows Phone, the two companies said on Monday. Read More CIA wants to spy on you through your appliances You know how sometimes you hunt for an item that you have misplaced? A really cool aspect of the 'Internet of Things' could allow you to ask, What did I do with my remote control? The computer could tell you precisely where it is. What did I do with my book? You might get an answer like, It's at Tom's house on his coffee table. Read More You consent to a search if a camera sees you? Facial Recognition vs 4th Amendment When you go outside or go to other public places such as a bank or a mall, have you automatically given up your Fourth Amendment rights and consented to a search? Read More Windows 8 update: Dell thinks it can sell Windows 8 tablets Dell thinks it can make a buck off Windows 8 tablets, despite the fact that it pretty much abandoned its Android tablets last year. Read More
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