Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2008 at 12:13:58 PM CET
New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole
The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2008 at 12:12:41 PM CET
Malware spread explains Pentagon USB ban
Pentagon systems and computers in warzones in Iraq and Afghanistan reportedly came under a malware-based attack last month. The infection promoted a recent ban of the use of USB stick and other forms of removable storage by the US military and also talk of cyberwar, which fails to stack up under close examination.
An intrusive piece of malware "designed specifically to target military networks" affected PCs in combat zones and penetrated one "highly protected classified network", the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 25, 2008 at 10:36:21 AM CET
25C3 - Fahrplan als frühe Beta erschienen
Für den kommenden 25. Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) gibt es jetzt eine frühe Version des Programm-Fahrplans. Der 25C3 ist der jährliche Kongress des Chaos Computer Club und findet traditionell zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr, vom 27.-30. Dezember, im Berlin Congress Center (BCC) statt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 25, 2008 at 10:35:00 AM CET
Die Woche mit Peter Glaser
Mehr oder weniger regelmässig gibt es hier zukünftig “Die Woche mit Peter Glaser”. Peter Glaser begleitet seit Anfang der 80er Jahre als Schriftsteller und Ehrenmitglied des Chaos Computer Clubs (CCC) die Entwicklung der digitalen Welt. Seit einiger Zeit bloggt er auch bei der Stuttgarter Zeitung. Ich freue mich, ihn als Kommentator gewonnen zu haben, der mir Fragen beantwortet.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 19, 2008 at 2:53:43 PM CET
New Top 500 Supercomputer List - Jaguar Chases Roadrunner, but Can’t Grab Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers
The 32nd edition of the closely watched list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers has just been issued, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.
The Los Alamos system, nicknamed Roadrunner, was slightly enhanced since June and narrowly fended off a challenge by the Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Jaguar. The system, only the second to break the petaflop/s barrier, posted a top performance of 1.059 petaflop/s in running the Linpack benchmark application. One petaflop/s represents one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2008 at 11:36:24 AM CET
Happy Birthday, Turing's universal machine
It's just 71 years ago this month that a seminal paper from Alan Turing was published, which helped pave the way to today's multi-billion dollar IT industry and confer on Turing the title of father of modern computer science.
As is often the case in scientific endeavour, Turing was actually working on an entirely different task when he stumbled on a way to create a general-purpose computer.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 12, 2008 at 3:20:18 PM CET
Taiwan Makes Fastest 60GHz Wireless System on a Chip, 100 times Wifi Speed for less than $1
The NTU research team claims that the transmission speed of the chip is 100 times as fast as WiFi and 350 times as fast as a 3.5G cell phone. Lee indicated that the chip size has been reduced to 0.5 millimeter, one-tenth of that of existing chips, and the cost is less than one-tenth of the traditional communication module and could be further lowered to only US$1.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 5, 2008 at 11:36:49 AM CET
The end of an era - Windows 3.x
An application has expectedly quit.
Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life.
On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2008 at 11:17:00 AM CET
OpenBSD 4.4 released
The 25th release of the free BSD Unix-like operating system has been made available.
OpenBSD 4.4 offers new improved drivers including support for the Intel G33 and G35 chipsets and a variety of new Wi-Fi chips. It also boosts better ACPI support for some Asus and Thinkpad notebooks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 2, 2008 at 4:41:00 PM CET
Late scores: Germany 1 Microsoft 0 - German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS
Here's another example of 'German Engineering' — The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, 'this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 1, 2008 at 1:52:00 PM CET
Trojan virus steals banking info
The details of about 500,000 online bank accounts and credit and debit cards have been stolen by a virus described as "one of the most advanced pieces of crimeware ever created".
The Sinowal trojan has been tracked by RSA, which helps to secure networks in Fortune 500 companies.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 1, 2008 at 1:21:00 PM CET
Zentralorgan von Nerdistan - 25 JAHRE "C'T"
Sie ist die einflussreichste deutsche Computerzeitschrift: Die "c't" schreckt Hersteller mit erbarmungslosen Produkttests und IT-Manager mit gewagter Garderobe. Jetzt wird sie 25 - SPIEGEL ONLINE hat Deutschlands bösestes Fachblatt besucht. Eine Fotoreportage von der Technikfront.
Es gäbe Heldengeschichten über die "c't" zu erzählen, Deutschlands einflussreichste Computerzeitschrift. Der Anlass wäre gegeben, schließlich wird das ungewöhnliche Blatt 25 Jahre alt. Das Problem ist nur: Detlef Grell, zusammen mit Christian Persson Chefredakteur der Zeitschrift, ist niemand, der zu Heldengeschichten neigt. Dabei arbeiten hier lauter Helden, die McGyvers des Technikjournalismus gewissermaßen - im ständigen Kampf mit Kabelsträngen, Leuchtdioden, geheimnisvollen Apparaten, Platinen und Prozessoren. Und irgendwie auch mit der Branche, über die sie berichten.
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