The ‘Shamoon’ malware that nixed the hard drives of 30,000 Saudi oil industry PCs in August was more of a ‘quick and dirty’ job by talented amateurs than a skilfully crafted professional cyberweapon, an analysis has ...
Tags: amatuers, cybercrime, cybercriminals, cyberwar, highlightedpost, Kaspersky
Don't expect HP to have a change of heart about building Windows RT devices anytime soon. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of HP's Personal Systems Group, said he's "not a big Windows RT fan" in an interview with CITEworld. ...
Tags: Android, ARM processors, highlightedpost, HP, Microsoft, Surface tablet
After months of heralding its Clover Trail processor for Windows 8 tablets, Intel on Thursday unveiled the chip that it believes is its ticket to success in the ARM-dominated market. Tablets with Clover Trail, aka the Atom Z2760 chip, ...
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Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce today. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore with a low-power ARM ...
Tags: ARM processor, Calxeda, chip, EngeryCore, highlightedpost, server
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, announced the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, the latest generation of its Oracle Database Machines, during his keynote address at Orcale OpenWorld 2012. “Forward-looking enterprises are ...
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HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over a decade. On the eve of the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt, the company gathered international press to reveal ...
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini will retire as an officer and director of the company in May, ending a four-decade career with the company. Otellini is to retire during a stockholders meeting within six months, making sure the transition to a new ...
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HP and Intel have teamed up to design and build a new supercomputing system for the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which promises to be one of the most efficient installations in the world. ...
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Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection. Tom Eston and Brett Kimmel of vendor SecureState ...
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Android’s 2012 security overhaul hasn’t stopped the volume of global threats targeting the mobile OS continuing to rise at an alarming rate, F-Secure’s latest mobile threat report has found. The company noticed 51,447 ...
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The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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Former Apple executive, known as the father of the iPod, Tony Fadell has suggested that Scott Forstall “got what he deserved” when he was ousted from Apple. Fadell told the BBC: “Scott got what he deserved. I think what ...
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Attackers can abuse Facebook’s phone search feature to find valid phone numbers and the name of their owners, according to security researchers. The attack is possible because Facebook doesn’t limit the number of phone number ...
Tags: Facebook, highlightedpost, Mark Zuckerberg, Phone number search, privacy
After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. “Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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