Sonos who makes some killer HiFi gear have announced updates for the smartphone and tablet apps. Sonos has made to its interface for Android and iOS devices. The key changes include:
- Support for Retina screens on iOS devices.
- Landscape format for Android devices.
- Use of the physical volume rocker to control the Sonos system volume from iOS devices.
- Support for 7 inch and 10 inch Android tablets.
Need more info? Check out this blog post for more. It’s great that Sonos is keen to update these apps as it really helps to leverage their impressive gear.
Third Largest Botnet Taken Down… Less Spam For You… For Now….
Posted in Commentary with tags Botnet, Spam on July 22, 2012 by itnerdLast week a group of researchers announced that Grum which was the third largest botnet on the planet had been taken down by blocking the botnet’s command and control servers in both the Netherlands and Panama. What does this mean for you? It means that 18% – as much as 50% of the world’s spam volume has just disappeared.
Excellent!
However the people who run this botnet were able to briefly bring it back up before it was shut down again. It’s likely not to stay down, though bringing it back may be a problem:
“It’s not about creating a new server. They’d have to start an entirely new campaign and infect hundreds of thousands of new machines to get something like Grum started again,” said Atif Mushtaq, a computer security specialist at FireEye.”They’d have to build from scratch. Because of how the malware was written for Grum, when the master server is dead, the infected machines can no longer send spam or communicate with a new server.”
So this is a win. But it may only be a short lived one before the mayhem starts again. So enjoy the reprieve from spam while it lasts.
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