Tsunami donors under Trojan attack

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that making tsunami relief donations online could expose donors virus attacks.

According to The Register, the FBI says false Web sites that appear to be legitimate relief organisations asking for donations may contain embedded a Trojan exploit that can infect your computer with a virus if accessed.

The FBI report does not say which Web sites or which Internet browsers are involved.

A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects Symbian-based cell phones has been discovered, reports CNet.

The report says the Skulls.D variant also kills off all system applications, but instead of turning individual application icons into skulls, a full-screen flashing skull is displayed along with a message telling users their phones are infected.

The new Skulls variant pretends to be Macromedia Flash player and affects Symbian Series 60 devices. Infected handsets can still make calls, but cannot run programs, take pictures, send text messages, or install new applications.

iSEC Security Research says the Mozilla browser may be vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to spy on or take over a system.

PC World reports the most serious bug affects all versions of Mozilla earlier than 1.7.5, and could result in a system crash or the execution of malicious code.

iSEC says a boundary error in the way Mozilla handles newsgroup addresses can be used to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, which crashes the application and may allow for code execution.

A Californian man is suing Apple because he says it is unfair that he can use only an Apple iPod to play songs downloaded from company`s iTunes music service.

BBC News says Thomas Slattery is seeking damages, alleging Apple is breaking anti-competition laws in refusing to let other music players work with the iTunes site.

Slattery`s lawsuit states that Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice.