Researchers hunting for Conficker’s Patient Zero
The Conficker worm has been making headlines for several months, thanks to periodic refresh cycles that have shifted both its attack vectors and its behavior once inside a system. Part of what makes...
View ArticleIntel may delay new CPUs, offset Atom production to China
Owning the only product making OEMs' eyes light up from Taiwan to Tennessee tends to keep the spotlight focused on you, and Intel's Atom is no exception. There's been some interesting rumor and...
View ArticleNetbook upsell models offer little to justify price
Netbooks have been hailed as a light in the darkness of our current economic morass, but the same business conditions that drove OEMs to focus on these lower-margin systems are also encouraging them...
View ArticleMississippi makes red-light cameras illegal
They may be advertised as speeding deterrents to city councils and safety tools to worried parents, but according to another school of thought, red-light cameras are all about making money. It's not...
View ArticleBIOS-level rootkit attack scary, but hard to pull off
A pair of Argentinean researchers has demonstrated a BIOS-level exploit that allowed the duo to potentially run a great deal of invisible code—which could remain installed even if the hard drive was...
View ArticleSumming up Shanghai: AMD’s 45nm server CPU four months later
For a product whose success determines whether AMD lives or dies, there's been surprisingly little said about Shanghai of late. Granted, there has been no shortage of semiconductor news, economic...
View ArticleCanadian .ca domain prepares united Conficker.C defense
White hats nationwide have ramped up their efforts to create a defense against Conficker.C as the worm's April 1 activation date approaches. This is not an easy task—as we've previously described,...
View ArticleGartner explores reality of x86 parallelism
If you've got even a passing interest in the subject, you're undoubtedly aware that true progress in general-purpose x86 multicore programming has been slow and uncertain. Intel and AMD may have made...
View ArticleEU to US: WTO appeal justified, so fix your gambling laws
The United States prides itself on being a staunch proponent of fair trade and is a prominent member of the WTO (World Trade Organization). When decisions by that body doesn't go its way, the US has a...
View ArticleReport: IT not scrimping on security during recession
IT news might be bad in almost every corner of the industry, but one industry segment seems better fit to ride out the recession than most. Sales of security appliances to various business sectors in...
View ArticleNVIDIA countersues Intel—right on schedule
When Intel sued NVIDIA earlier this month alleging that the GPU maker had infringed upon its patents, it was only a matter of time before the reverse occurred—and here we are. Earlier this month it...
View ArticleAnand investigates SSD performance shenanigans
It made headlines last month when tech website PC Perspective published results indicating that the performance of Intel's X25-M solid state drives (SSDs) degraded significantly under certain...
View ArticleChinese cyberespionage network runs across 103 nations
The existence and operation of massive, coordinated, government-affiliated online espionage networks is typically the province of television or the silver screen, rather than the subject of research....
View ArticleWestern Digital goes solid state, acquires SiliconSystems
On Monday, Western Digital announced it had acquired SiliconSystems Inc. in a $65 million cash deal. The new deal will give WD the means with which to form its own solid state disk (SSD) product...
View ArticleLet’s hit that horsie one more time: NVIDIA+VIA =Twu Wuv?
Well folks, he got here a little later this year—travelin' while dead is slow, hard, work—but the NVIDIA-VIA acquisition rumor horse is here once again to grace us with a visit. This time around, it...
View ArticleNew method for detecting Conficker discovered, debuted
The clock is ticking down towards Conficker.C's reported April 1 launch date, but an 11th-hour discovery by Team White Hat may substantially improve an IT shop's chance of catching the bug early and...
View ArticleRomanian phisher stuck casting behind bars for four years
Judge Janet Half of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut made history on March 31 when she sentenced Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, a 23-year-old native of Romania to 50 months in prison...
View ArticleNehalem Xeon’s touchdown: could sweep current market
Multisocket enthusiasts and/or anyone itching to upgrade to a new workstation have been waiting for Intel's major new Xeon refresh with bated breath. Santa Clara may have made us wait for dual-socket...
View ArticleConficker.C appears on schedule, but only as a whisper
The Conficker worm has been a hot topic for months as white hats and black hats have struggled to one-up each other. When security teams broke the randomization cypher Conficker uses and were able to...
View ArticleThe Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
Google doesn't talk about its server operations very often; most of what we know boils down to one word: "big." The company lifted the lid ever-so-slightly yesterday (no April Fool), and gave the...
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