Thursday, April 8, 2010

IT News HeadLines (AOA - Alliance of Overclocking Arts) 08/04/2010



Apple iPad wi-fi woes

Quick to blame everyone, but itself

Apple's own support forum is overrun with not so happy iPad owners complaining about connection issues on their shiny new tablet computers.


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Conficker Botnet 'Dead In the Water,' Researcher Says

From DarkReading


But there are still 6.5 million machines infected, and worm continues to spread

After over a year of waiting for the sleeping giant Conficker botnet to come to life, some security researchers are now starting to think it may just be dead rather than dormant: they say the original creators of the Conficker botnet appear to have abandoned ship, leaving the worm to merely spread on its own via unpatched Windows machines.


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Son of GhostNet: China-based hacking targets India government

From Ars Technica

The people who uncovered GhostNet, an extensive cyber espionage network that targeted the Tibetan exile community, are back with a sequel. Starting with an infected machine that was uncovered during that investigation, an international team of researchers has uncovered a completely separate network that primarily targeted the Indian government, and uncovered some classified documents that had been obtained by the hackers. By reconstructing the network, the team was able to trace things back to the hacking community in Chengdu, China.


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Western Digital ups Velociraptor capacity

From The Inquirer:

HARD DRIVE MANUFACTURER Western Digital has, in what some may conjecture is the final roll of the dice for traditional hard drives, launched two larger models in its Velociraptor like.


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Frisco fanboi frenzy on 'iPad Day'

From The Register:

A 30-mile urban shopping saga

To bag yourself an iPad on its day of release, you either have to have planned ahead or know the best place to shop. I didn't and don't.


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