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Posted by Dalantech on Saturday December 26th 2009 04:52 AM
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Posted by Hardrive on Saturday January 17th 2009 10:05 PM
Three million hit by Windows worm
- A worm that spreads through low security networks, memory sticks, and PCs without the latest security updates is posing a growing threat to users.
INFECTED IPs WORLDWIDE
China 38,277
Brazil 34,814
Russia 24,526
India 16,497
Ukraine 14,767
Italy 13,115
Argentina 11,675
Korea 11,117
Romania 8,861
United States 3,958
United Kingdom 1,789
*Source: F-Secure*
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Posted by Dalantech on Friday November 14th 2008 05:43 AM
The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline.
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Posted by Hardrive on Friday October 10th 2008 10:45 AM
- The second major breach — of the bank's treasury network in Washington — was discovered in April 2008. The World Bank's Treasury manages $70 billion in assets for 25 clients — including the central banks of some countries. It carries out substantial collaborations with the world's finance ministers on public wealth and debt management, runs an active bond-trading desk in Washington, and does everything from currency trading to capital markets financings.
After a forensic analysis of the treasury breach, bank investigators discovered that spy software was covertly installed on workstations inside the bank's Washington headquarters — allegedly by one or more contractors from Satyam Computer Services, one of India's largest IT companies.
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Posted by Hardrive on Wednesday August 6th 2008 10:43 AM
- Eleven people were indicted Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
The indictments, which alleged that at least nine major U.S. retailers were hacked, were unsealed Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California, prosecutors said.
It is believed to be the largest hacking case that the Justice Department has ever tried to prosecute.
Three of the defendants are from the United States; three are from Estonia; three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is from Belarus.
The remaining individual is known only by an alias and authorities do not know where that person is.
40 million?!?!? 
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Posted by Hardrive on Saturday July 26th 2008 05:07 PM
- Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide.
Too bad he had to take someone with him....
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Posted by Fortch on Thursday July 10th 2008 11:31 PM
- With DNS so vital to the operation of the Internet, security threats to it need to be taken seriously. But when it comes to the recent disclosure of a multivendor DNS cache poisoning issue, who really is at risk? And will the Internet collapse if the issue isn't fixed?
Another cache poisoning exploit? Patch your BIND servers, people!
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Posted by Hardrive on Saturday May 10th 2008 12:20 PM
Thanks to Lestat:
- One of the nation's top research centers for the study of weather and climate has installed an IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that runs more than 4,000 processors and is capable of performing 76 trillion floating point operations per second.
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Posted by Dalantech on Wednesday April 23rd 2008 07:09 AM
- Some months ago, my contacts in the defense industry had alerted me to a startling development that has escalated to the point of near-panick in nearly all corners of Government security and IT infrastructure. The very-real concern, being investigated by the FBI, is that either the Chinese government or Chinese hackers (or both) have had the benefit of undetectable back-doors into highly secure government and military computer networks for months, perhaps years. The cause: a high-number of counterfeit Cisco routers and switches installed in nearly all government networks that experienced upgrades and/or new units within the past 18 months.
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Posted by Fortch on Tuesday April 1st 2008 12:22 PM
- Right on schedule: Google is releasing their April Fools jokes onto us as the calendars hit April 1 on the east coast (here’s last year’s efforts). Google Australia got a head start earlier today with the very funny Future Search. Gmail’s effort this year isn’t in my opinion as funny.
Gmail Custom Time lets users send emails with a custom date in the past, putting it in the recipients inbox at the old date:
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Posted by Fortch on Tuesday April 1st 2008 12:08 PM
- Microsoft, however, isn't exactly singing XP's praises anymore. While the Redmond-based company is putting the finishing touches on Service Pack 3 (SP3) for the nearly seven-year-old OS, the company announced last year that it would cease the sale of new XP licenses on June 30, 2008 -- this date itself was extended from January 31, 2008 due to incessant pressure from its customers.
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Posted by Fortch on Tuesday April 1st 2008 12:06 PM
- The A200 shipped about a month ago, and today we are taking a first look at the top entry-level Sony called the A350. It is the only entry-level SLR with a huge 14.2MP sensor, but unlike most recent DSLR sensor introductions, this one is CCD and not CMOS. The A350/A300 are also the only entry DSLR cameras with a tilt LCD. This is coupled with fast AF Live View, which moves that feature to a full-time view alternative with fast auto focusing. Most of the recent DSLR cameras feature Live View that was pioneered by Olympus, but Sony takes the feature from checklist novelty to a truly useful viewing alternative. This makes the transition easier for point-and-shoot users accustomed to Live View composing with the LCD screen.
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Posted by Fortch on Tuesday April 1st 2008 12:03 PM
- Dr. Vini Khurana, a top British neurosurgeon and medical researcher, is trying ardently to grab people's attention about what he sees as a grave risk to health. He has published over 30 papers; his specialty -- cell phones and their links to disease. He has reviewed over 100 papers on the links between cell phones and cancer. His latest research, currently under peer-review prior to journal publication, emphasizes a strong link between cell phones and tumors.
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Posted by Hardrive on Tuesday January 22nd 2008 11:08 AM
WASHINGTON — Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference.
All the break-ins occurred outside the United States, said senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue. The U.S. government believes some of the hackers had inside knowledge to cause the outages.
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Posted by Dalantech on Friday January 18th 2008 04:30 PM
Mums the word from Apple -they even seem to be ignoring their own support forum...
Update: If you cannot hear any sound with the latest version of iTunes then uninstall Quick Time version 7.4 and install Quick Time version 7.3 .
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Posted by Dalantech on Friday January 18th 2008 01:12 PM
- Researchers at the University of Washington managed to embed an electronic circuit and LEDs directly into contact lenses, which seemed to look good on rabbit eyes. Though the circuit is not functional and the lights don't light up, the development shows that future applications like direct video to the eye may indeed be possible.
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Posted by Dalantech on Monday January 14th 2008 08:27 AM
- Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.
...and people won't care because they are prisoners. Then the catholics won't care when it happens to the jews...
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Posted by Dalantech on Wednesday January 9th 2008 04:41 AM
- There has been an uproar today about a recent devious tactic being used by one of the original ICANN accredited registrars, NetworkSolutions. Apparently they are internally registering each and every domain name that a user searches for using their website, essentially holding it hostage so that it can not be purchased at any other significantly cheaper and more ethical registrar.
Network Sulutions Reply -I'm not buying it... 
If you want a domain name DO NOT search for it to see if it is available unless you are ready to register and pay for it. Too many companies are selling their search data, and it's too easy for someone to monitor what people are searching for...
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Posted by Fortch on Tuesday December 11th 2007 11:33 AM
- Intel Corporation on Dec. 16 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the transistor, the building block of today's digital world. Invented by Bell Labs and considered one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, transistors are found in many consumer electronics and are the fundamental component used to build computer chips, or the "brains" of the personal computer (PC).
Intel, the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips, has recently introduced its 45 nanometer (nm) next-generation family of quad-core processors. Called the biggest transistor advancement in 40 years by Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore, the processors are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors. Introduced on Nov. 12 and continuing into the next few months, this latest innovation is enabling servers, everyday PCs and laptops to become smaller, faster, sleeker and more energy-efficient while also eliminating eco-unfriendly lead and, in 2008, halogen materials.
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