The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said Thursday. New analysis of the Flashback botnet and the traffic between infected Macs and C&C... - www.infoworld.com

Yesterday, Mozilla product director Asa Dotzler posted yet another broadside about Microsoft preventing access to the Windows 32 API in - www.infoworld.com

Unconfirmed reports say that Android 5 "Jelly Bean" could be released this fall, featuring such improvements as Chrome browser integration, better enterprise security, better power management, and maybe dual-booting support for Microsoft's Windows 8. - www.infoworld.com

Insiders are responsible for as much as 80 percent of malicious attacks. Because insiders are trusted by nature, detecting their illicit activities requires an array of monitoring, scanning, and other techniques. Roger Grimes, an InfoWorld contributing... - www.infoworld.com

Researchers have developed a robotic arm that has enabled a paralyzed woman to drink a cup of coffee -- by directly controlling it with her mind. The development has raised the question of whether this approach could perhaps restore some mobility to... - ectnews.com.feedsportal.com

There are nearly 4,000 different types of devices running Android, OpenSignalMaps has found. More than 1,300 of them have custom ROMs that tweak the android.build model. Android brands are almost as diverse as the models, OpenSignalMaps discovered.... - ectnews.com.feedsportal.com

PGI, Cray, and CAPS enterprise are moving quickly to get their new OpenACC-supported compilers into the hands of GPGPU developers. At NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference this week, there was plenty of discussion around the new HPC accelerator framework,... - www.hpcwire.com

Google is extensively updating its search function with the rollout of a new Knowledge Graph. The heart of the Knowledge Graph is a database Google has compiled, via its own research and through its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies, of 500 million... - ectnews.com.feedsportal.com

Cyber spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on websites focused on human rights, defense, and foreign policy. Over the last two weeks, the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks Internet threats, has discovered several such... - www.infoworld.com

Today in international tech news: The Pirate Bay is hit with a massive DDoS attack. Meanwhile, Evernote launches its Chinese service, saying, "It's like we unlocked a whole new Earth that we didn't even know existed." Also: China is poised to overtake... - ectnews.com.feedsportal.com