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For someone who retired a year remembered for the financial crisis for someone - the epidemic of influenza. For me the year was unusually rich in various kinds malvar as a template completely, and really worthwhile that wrenched me out of the usual cycle of events. In any case, it's time to take stock of "work" virus in 2009 and make projections for the future. To begin, as usual, with the unpleasant: the myth of the invincibility of computers from Apple, and, respectively, and their operating system (for individuals who spent the past ten years in a bomb shelter, do remark - an OS for Macintosh computers called MacOS) shattered. In 2009 was created the first "apple" botnet, discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the operating system itself, and in the third-party applications. Sami attack, I'll say straight, does not represent anything interesting - Unix architecture is conservative, and, if desired, players can browse the Internet, you can easily rewrite t...

While the world celebrated Christmas and New Year, fighting against piracy are not sitting idly by. As, however, and the pirates, who continued to download and distribute copyrighted content, despite the holidays. Let the new year once again to look at which has already become a familiar standoff holders and thrifty consumers - in the light of recent news from the "front". Which began the year was marked by news from France, just relevant to the fight against the illegal distribution of content protected by law. There, however, has not been anything out of the way - only a government of France had postponed putting into effect an anti-piracy law "three strikes", allowing the disconnection from the Internet those French citizens who were last seen in the downloading of content prohibited. Let me remind you, the law provides for the delivery persons noticed in violation of copyright warnings. If after two acts of illegal copying protected content the user will be deci...

Site Mail.ru is one of three largest portals Runet, so that attention is paid to him, entirely justified. At the end of last year around Mail.ru launched a massive plot. Its essence was as follows: Mail.ru search engine has long been one of the most popular in RuNet, but few people know that their own search engine at Mail.ru was not. Portal use search technology "Yandex", with the trademark "Yandex" it was not mentioned. Instead, the largest search engine Runet received only a few deductions from advertising. By the end of 2009-the first such situation no longer organize ambitious Yandex, which demanded the "divorce" from Mail.ru. In response, the administration Mail.ru began negotiations with Google, which has long sought a foothold in Russia's market. It was assumed that the search service Mail.ru had to go to the engine Google, as well as displaying search results ads from contextual advertising system AdSense. Moreover, the draft contract with Goo...