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To: pyslent who wrote (18917)	4/14/2012 3:24:39 PM
From: zax	of 26281

GAME ON, FANBOYS. AT&T has found itself a new "hero". X-D Nokia Lumia 900 currently sold out on AT&T's site, still available on Amazon By Nathan Ingraham on April 14, 2012 02:26 pm We've heard from AT&T that sales of the Nokia Lumia 900 are "exceeding expectations," though it isn't saying exactly how many have been sold so far. If AT&T's site is to be believed, the Lumia 900 is selling so well that it's out of stock. We've heard similar claims from some AT&T retail stores recently, as well. While that certainly helps back up AT&T's claims, it's worth noting that the handset is still available from Amazon Wireless. The fact that the Lumia 900 is out-of-stock at AT&T might be related to good sales, but it's also entirely possible that AT&T is removing the phone from its online store due to the data connection problems that have plagued this handset's launch. It's probably just as well — If you're interested in Nokia's new flagship device, you're probably better off waiting for those issues to be corrected before you pull the trigger.

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To: zax who wrote (18996)	4/14/2012 6:05:22 PM
From: pyslent	of 26281

The sell out could be good or bad. Here's speculation that the current stock had been recalled, but since the bug fix went live yesterday, let's see if they comes back into stock right away or not. Nokia Lumia 900 out of stock, but not for the reason you think April 13, 2012 \| By Surur We have been receiving reports that the Nokia Lumia 900 is no longer available at stores. If this was due to the handset selling out that would of course be good news, but reader Naren has clued us into the real reason. Apparently Nokia and AT&T are pulling the Lumia 900 of stock shelves and returning it to Nokia to be flashed with the new, LTE-bug free firmware. This process will apparently take 3-5 days, meaning the phones will only get in stock early next week. The phone is still available online, where of course either shipment can be delayed until fixed handsets are available, or they can make sure only handsets free of the problem are being sent out. Hopefully Nokia can keep the turn around time as short as possible and get the handset back on the shelves before the launch buzz fades. Thanks Naren and Abishek for the tip.

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From: zax	4/14/2012 6:15:14 PM
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Nokia update; store visited today. I spoke with several staffers. Much better experience this time than late on the Monday the phone was introduced: The good: All AT&T employees now wearing Nokia Lumia 900 shirts. The entire stores are veritable ads for the Lumia 900 All AT&T employees can now have a Lumia 900 free of charge (90 days). Corporate plan is that 60% of all AT&T staff will have the phone. Absolutely georgeous display demos going on the LM900s now. Stunning. Best presented phone in the house. Better than the moving ads on the iPads in the Apple store. I was demo-ed the camera. It is excellent. Front facing camera is fantastic too. I appear to have been wrong about any sorts of possible problems I was initially wary of. I swear I didn't think anybody made an AMOLED better than Samsung. I was wrong; the Lumia clearview display is the best I've ever seen; the colors are stunning. The phone feels great to hold in the hand, light and well balanced. The 4G LGE is something to behold coming from a 3G Samsung Focus. This trip I met staffers who had owned the Lumia 900 phone for some time (before even commercially available) and loved it to death. None experienced in their personal units the connection problems that were subject of the recall. It appears AT&T is quite serious about repeating their success strategy of the iPhone this time with Windows Phone. Get a top end, show-stopper that no one else has, and win customers with it. It seems like a good idea, but since some Nokia handsets and Windows phones - albeit not as impressive as the Lumia 900, are available elsewhere, its probably not quite the draw the iPhone was. The bad Still no Internet access on the in-store phones. I think the units in the store perhaps were subject of the defect. This was disappointing to me, although the personal units of the staffers worked fine. The phone is not available for walk-out purchase. All stock was recalled for the software update. Purchased phones would be shipped a few days later. I think AT&T may be getting their act together on this . Store greeting. Guess what phone rules here? AT&T staffer, very proud Lumia 900 owner. Well informed; loved to show off his personal phone.

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From: zax	4/14/2012 7:43:50 PM
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New targeted Mac OS X Trojan requires no user interaction By Emil Protalinski \| April 14, 2012, 12:44pm PDT zdnet.com Summary: A new Mac OS X Trojan referred to as Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a or SX/Sabpab-A is also exploiting Java vulnerabilities in a way that requires no user interaction. It is being used in targeted attacks. Another Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted in the wild; this one exploits Java vulnerabilities just like the Flashback Trojan. Also just like Flashback, this new Trojan requires no user interaction to infect your Apple Mac. Kaspersky refers to it as “Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a” while Sophos calls it at “SX/Sabpab-A.” After infecting a given Mac, this Trojan is like most: it connects to a remote website using HTTP in typical command and control (C&C) fashion to fetch instructions from remote hackers telling it what to do. The backdoor contains functionality to take screenshots of the user’s current session, upload and download files, as well as execute commands remotely on the infected machine. Encrypted logs are sent back to the control server, so the hackers can monitor activity. The remote C&C website appears to be hosted on the free dynamic DNS service onedumb.com. Interestingly, the IP address in question has been used in other targeted attacks (known as Luckycat) in the past. This particular attack may been launched through e-mails containing a URL pointing to two websites hosting the exploit, located in Germany and the U.S. The Trojan may have been created on March 16, 2012. It was compiled with debug information, meaning analyzing it wasn’t hard, but more importantly this seems to suggest it is not the final version. You can check for infection by looking for the following files: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PubSabAgent.pfile /Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.PubSabAGent.plist The Java exploits appear to be pretty standard, but have been obfuscated using ZelixKlassMaster to avoid detection by anti-malware products. The low number of infections and its backdoor functionality indicates that it is most likely used in targeted attacks. The good news is this means that this Trojan is not believed to be anything as widespread as Flashback, and if you’ve downloaded and installed the latest software updates from Apple that patch the Java vulnerabilities (or disabled Java), you’re safe. The bad news is these Trojans will just keep coming, likely at an increasing rate. This Trojan further underlines the importance of protecting Macs against malware with an updated anti-virus program as well as the latest security updates.

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