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• Are iPhone 5 rumors torpedoing Apple’s Q2 revenues?

  Apple (AAPL - NASDAQ) is warning investors that returns for the current second quarter will be lower than projections, triggering widespread and feverish speculation that the fall-off is due to swirling rumors about an early summer launch for iPhone 5.

• FBI issues warning on hotel Internet connections

  The FBI today warned travelers there has been an uptick in malicious software infecting laptops and other devices linked to hotel Internet connections.

• Conficker: Microsoft says two basic security steps might have stopped infections

  If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.

• Microsoft: Conficker still the top corporate network threat

  Companies are still plagued by the Conficker worm, used to create botnets and spread other forms of malware, according to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.

• Apple WWDC set for June 11-16: Will iPhone 5 or iOS 6.0 debut?

  Apple has finally announced the dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference (Apple WWDC): June 11-15 at San Francisco’s Moscone conference center. Now the race is on for developers to buy tickets for the event, which last year sold out in under 12 hours.

• Nuke the box: Push underway to clean up 300,000 PCs with DNS virus

  A PR campaign is underway to clean up as many as 300,000 computers infected with DNSChanger viruses that divert victims' traffic to sites that can further exploit the machines and their owners, but it's not clear that goal can be accomplished without drastic measures.

• AT&T Watson vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' about a smackdown?

  AT&T Labs says its Watson speech recognition technologies have been around for more than 20 years, and come this June, it will put APIs and SDKs in the hands of developers who want to give users a way to interact with smartphones, TVs and other devices using their voices.

• Macs under attack, who is safe?

  It was always thought that as Apple products increased in popularity, so would the target on its back placed by cybercriminals. Always looking to take down the king of the hill, cybercriminals finally got to Apple's Macs last week with a botnet that attacked more than 600,000 machines.

• An ethical hacker's view on mobile malware and how to stop it

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Mobile device management: A necessary cost or a cost saver?

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• With the new Evo, Sprint gets its signature LTE device

  With its LTE launch just around the corner, Sprint Wednesday took the wraps off its first big-time LTE-capable smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G LTE.

• New iPad opener: Forego finesse with this April Fools' Day special

  Just in time for April Fools’ Day, the repair experts iFixit have come up with a slick new way to get at the innards of an Apple iPad: the iPad Fubar – by Stanley.

• Fake 'The Roar of the Pharaoh' Android app latest Trojan scam

  It may look like an app for a Chinese game called "The Roar of the Pharaoh," but it's actually just another fake Android app that's really a malware Trojan in disguise, according to security researchers warning about it today.

• Report cites U.S., Canada as malware attack focus

  In its annual review of global security threats, Websense says a major trend it observed last year is that more malware connections, hosting and phishing appear to be occurring in the United States and Canada.

• Microsoft bot takedowns help, but are no cure

  Takedowns of Zeus botnet command and control servers like the one executed last week by Microsoft and others do reduce the criminal activity they spawn - for a while - but attackers learn from the experience and come back with more sophisticated techniques, a security expert says.