Trojan swipes FTP credentials

Security researchers have uncovered a cache of stolen FTP credentials belonging to a variety of corporations, including Symantec, McAfee, Amazon and the Bank of America, reports eWeek.

According to security vendor Prevx, a Trojan has swiped 88 000 FTP credentials as of this morning.

The FTP log-ins were discovered while the company's researchers were investigating what Prevx CTO Jacques Erasmus described as a “prevalent in-the-wild infection”.

Google has fixed its broken Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook plug-in, a messaging and collaboration software module geared to let Microsoft users access their Gmail e-mail, contacts and calendar content through Outlook, says eWeek.

The move is a bid to get customers of enterprise applications off their Exchange servers and stored in Google's cloud computing environment.

Google intended the tool as a way for long-time Microsoft Outlook users to continue to access their information via the familiar Outlook interface if their companies switch to Google Apps.

Symantec has unveiled its Norton Online Living Calculator, a tool that people can use to see how much their online information is worth on the black market, reports cnet.

The tool also offers a risk rating based on demographics, online activity, and estimated value of online information.

A recent Microsoft Research report concludes that stolen data offered for sale in underground IRC channels is difficult to monetise because of all the con artists there.

Yahoo has released a feature that lets people post Flickr photos to their Twitter accounts, states cnet.

The Twitter2Flickr feature requires that Flickr is enabled as an approved application that can tweet under the particular username.

Then, when the "blog this" link above a photo at Flickr is clicked, there is an option to twitter it. The tweet will come with a "flic.kr" shortened URL.

The global IT market will shrink by more than 10% this year, after IT buyers “over-reacted” to the worldwide recession, according to Forrester Research, says Computing.co.uk.

But the analyst firm predicts a recovery starting by the end of this year, with overall market growth of 4% next year.

Forrester revised down its forecast for 2009 after weaker than expected financial results in the IT sector during the first half of the year.