Windows, Mac, or Linux: It's Not the OS, It's the User
Security experts say that criminals aren't exploiting OS vulnerabilities to get your personal info anymore. Instead, the scumbag crooks are relying more on social engineering tricks to steal information these days. This trend has been rising rapidly over the past two years. Currently, only about 3 percent of the malicious software that Symantec encounters exploits a technical vulnerability. The other 97 percent of malware is either "piggybacking on that 3 percent," or more likely trying to trick a user through some type of "social engineering" scheme, according to Zulfikar. Comments
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Computex 2010 Coverage
Computex 2010 is in full swing and there are more than a few sites out there with event coverage posted today. In no real order, here is a preliminary list of sites with Computex related news: Overclockers Club Legit Reviews PC Perspective TechwareLabs Hardware Canucks
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The Stats on Internet Pornography
It looks like someone finally took enough time away from watching porn to actually compile some statistics: Comments
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Steve Jobs Will Fix This Foxconn Suicide Nonsense
Have no fear, Steve Jobs is here! There will be no more suicides at Foxconn from this point forward! Fake Steve Jobs isn't buying it nor does he like the "national average" argument: Also, consider this. Walmart has 1.4 million employees in the United States. Can you remember a time when 10 or 15 Walmart workers jumped to their deaths from the roofs of Walmart stores over the course of a few months? Have you ever heard of Walmart asking employees to sign a no-suicide contract, or putting safety nets up on all of its buildings? If this did happen, would you think maybe something is going on at Walmart? Or would you just say, well, 10 or 15 people out of 1.4 million is still waaaay below the national average?" Comments
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Streaming Video to Outpace P2P Traffic Growth
Analyst are predicting that, within just four years, 90% of all content traffic on the web will be video. Ninety percent? Sure doesn't leave much room for anything else. In total, Cisco said, video traffic will exceed 91 percent of all global IP traffic in the next four years. It would take more than two years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks every second in 2014. And it would take 72 million years to watch all the video crossing the network in 2014, Cisco has said. Comments
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Microsoft Responds To Google Rumors
In response to the rumors that Google is ditching the use of all Microsoft operating systems, Microsoft had this to say: When it comes to security, even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else. And it's not just the hackers; third party influentials and industry leaders like Cisco tell us regularly that our focus and investment continues to surpass others. Comments
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Finnish Police Probe Theft of Virtual Furniture
Normally I would make fun of a story about the police investigating the theft of virtual furniture but, after that dude stabbed a guy in real life over a knifing that took place in Counter Strike last week, I think I'll pass on the jokes this time. "Significant amounts of virtual property" were stolen from around 400 users of the Habbo Hotel virtual hotel, where visitors can create a character for themselves to hang out with friends, take care of virtual pets and furnish their own rooms for a fee, Finnish police said Tuesday. Comments
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Free Apps Install Spyware on Macs
Free malware with every download? Yup, there's an app for that. Mac users downloading free screensavers and a video converter app from several popular download sites also got spyware that installs a back door, collects data, and sends encrypted information to remote servers, security company Intego said on Tuesday. Comments
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AMD Demonstrates World's First Fusion APU at Computex
AMD today delivered the first public demonstration of an AMD Fusion processor, initiating the accelerated processing era. The AMD Fusion™ Family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represents a significant shift in processor architecture and capabilities, combining high-performance serial computing and parallel graphics processing cores onto a single die to improve visual and data-intensive tasks that are pervasive in today's computing environments. Comments
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MS and Novell Delivering Hybrid Options for High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) continues to gain in popularity as businesses face increasing pressure to process data faster and with greater precision. Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc., working in concert with third parties, are now making it easier for IT executives to take advantage of the benefits of supercomputing with a technology initiative that helps customers realize greater IT infrastructure efficiency and subsequent cost savings. Today, Microsoft and Novell reported strong demand for their high-performance computing interoperability solution with 33 shared customers now deploying sophisticated server workload management across SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server. Comments
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[H]ard Boxen Winner Has Been Chosen!
The winner of the first [H]ard Boxen giveaway has been announced! This contest is the brainchild of Kendrak ([H]ard|DCer of the Year 2009) and was designed to bring new folders into the community and enhance the spirit of competition by offering up the opportunity for new team members to win some goodies while folding for a cure. Click the link if you are interested in joining our folding team, or you just want to know more about the [H]ard Boxen giveaway. Congrats to bigredcat on the win!
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Galaxy Streams Desktop to Your TV
Galaxy has shared a little information with us on its upcoming products that I think a lot of you will be interested in. The company has a handful of "world's first" products coming your way including the first single slot GTX 470 dubbed the Razor and the first WHDI graphics card on the market. Hit the link above for more information. We have a look at some of Galaxy's new products that it is showing off at Computex. Most notably Galaxy will have product that will allow you to wirelessly stream your high resolution desktop to your TV. New GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards as well. Comments
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Google Has Mapped Every WiFi Network in Britain
What was that company motto again? It's on the tip of my tongue…something about not being evil. Yeah, Google is doing a great job trying to maintain that image. Every WiFi wireless router – the device that links most computer owners to the internet - in every home has been entered into a Google database. The information was collected by radio aerials on their Street View cars, which have now photographed almost every home in the country. Comments
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Rhetorical Question of the Day
Do First-Person Shooters really need all of that shooting? In real life, I'm not especially bloodthirsty. As a matter of fact, I'm not violent at all. I abhor real world violence and consider warfare to be an atavistic curse of our species - the worst part of our primate heritage. Still, there's something about catching an enemy in the cross-hairs of my sniper rifle and watching them drop with one well-placed digital bullet. Comments
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HP Taking $1B Charge, Cutting 9,000 Jobs
So much for having a good quarter, after posting over $30B in revenue (a 13% gain) last quarter, Hewlett-Packard just announced that it is cutting 9,000 jobs and spending $1 billion in a restructuring effort designed to "consolidate and invigorate its enterprise services." HP will take a $1 billion charge for paying severance and modernizing its data centers to provide more automated services to customers, it said today in a regulatory filing. The Palo Alto, California-based company plans to replace about 6,000 of the eliminated positions with workers in different countries. Comments
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Galaxy Streams Desktop to Your TV
We have a look at some of Galaxy's new products that it is showing off at Computex. Most notably Galaxy will have product that will allow you to wirelessly stream your high resolution desktop to your TV. New GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards as well.
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