Will Huawei develop its own operating system?

Let’s take a look at this news from BBC about how Huawei’s issue will affect their users.

The restrictions being placed on Huawei’s access to the Android operating system will cast a long shadow over Tuesday’s launch of the Chinese company’s latest handsets.

The firm has invited press from across the globe to London to witness the unveiling of its Honor 20 Series smartphones.

The BBC understands the devices will still offer the full Android experience – including use of Google’s own app store.

Reimage Tests Wibiya – What Do You Think?

We stumbled across Wibiya, a cool Israeli start-up offering a social toolbar the other day and liked the concept so much we decided to test it with Reimage’s website. For the next few days we have embedded Wibiya’s social toolbar in our site and we want to know how you feel about it. Based on how you interact with it we will see if you think this is a valuable tool to Reimage users. So go ahead, don’t be shy.

You can try it out at www.reimage.com at the bottom of the screen.

New Coalition Formed to Fight Malware

Three groups set up “Chain of Trust” initiative… read more.

Hackers Expose UC Berkeley Students Data

The breach was not discovered for six months…

read more.

Report: Number of Botnets Surged 50% in First Quarter

Criminals control 12 million IP addresses… read more.

Report: Hackers Use Search Engines to Lure Users

195,000 people can be infected by single search engine… read more.

Researchers Bust Botnet

Hackers stole 70 GB of data… read more here.

Microsoft Prevents AutoRun Function

Company intends to ban automatic usage of USB drivers… Read more.

This Week’s Industry News

• Conficker Disguised as Antivirus Software
• Ford’s Name Used to Spread Malicious Software
• Multi Malware Attacks on Twitter
• Report: Malware Rates Reach New High in 2008
• Finjan: 1.9 Million Computers Controlled by Single Botnet

Latest PC Repair News

• April Fool’s Virus Fails to Deliver
• New Virus Survives, Reboots and Evades Antivirus Software
• UK House of Commons Infected by Malware
• Hackers Use SEO Techniques to Distribute Rogueware
• New Worm Infects Modems and Routers
• Cyber-Criminals Target Basketball Fans
• New Conficker to Attack on April Fools Day
• Report: 10 Million Identity Theft Cases in 2008
• Microsoft and Facebook Team Up to Fight Virus
• New Malware Targets Macs
• Reports: China Spies on Dalai Lama