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Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks
An anonymous reader writes Tinba, the tiny (20 KB) banking malware with man-in-the-browser and network traffic sniffing capabilities, is back. After initially being made to target users of a small number of banks, that list has been amplified and now includes 26 financial institutions mostly in the US and Canada, but some in Australia and Europe as well. Tinba has been modified over the years, in an attempt to bypass new security protections set up by banks, and its source code has been leaked on underground forums a few months ago. In this new campaign, the Trojan gets delivered to users via the Rig exploit kit, which uses Flash and Silverlight exploits. The victims get saddled with the malware when they unknowingly visit a website hosting the exploit kit."
You don't need Linux to be free of Adobe and Microsoft. Just a Mac. The OS itself can read/print PDF natively, YouTube has an HTML5 video option (and if it doesn't work, just set your user agent to iPad or something) and Microsoft isn't needed for the average user. iWork is more than sufficient, otherwise there's OpenOffice/etc.
Besides, it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop, no more than the year of the Mac Desktop. Desktops have been replaced by tablets and phones for most users. Most people don't need computers, just as they don't need a full set of power tools or a kitchen full of commercial-grade appliances. Desktops and laptops are back to the status of specialized power tools which only a few of us (relatively speaking) really need.
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I think your wrong about that. Who the hell wants to do their taxes, finances, write letters, and so on on some rinky dink tablet? Not me. The reason desktop sales have slowed down is 1) for most people their current computer is fine so they are not buying a new one until the old one dies. 2) We've not seen much of an increase in performance, I cant see a big improvement in RAM size in the last 3 years for instance.