Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks GOP party retreat and two major sports scandals of the week: whether or not Manti Te’O of Notre Dame was the victim or complicit in a bizarre hoax involving an imaginary girlfriend (you’ll recall Mark Shields is an unabashed fan of his alma mater…
Mac Malware Flashback Retreats
The number of Macs infected with the Flashback malware has plummeted in the last few days, antivirus vendor Symantec said today. As of Wednesday, Symantec estimated that approximately 270,000 Macs were infected with Flashback, down from a peak of more than 600,000 systems on April 6. (See also “Flashback Trojan…
Anonymous retreats from cartel confrontation
Threats to begin unmasking members of Zetas reined back as cartel rumoured to be hiring own security specialists for physical retaliation – as others question whether Anonymous member was ever kidnapped in Veracruz Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators with Mexico’s bloody Zetas drug cartel – a…