Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News
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Supercomputer maker Cray’s custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK
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Microsoft is re-releasing the patch that caused Windows systems to crash in February with a Blue Screen of Death. by Richard Thurston ZDNet UK
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IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache’s HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au
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Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia
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Ex-baseballer Curt Schilling’s developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game. by Tor Thorsen GameSpot
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For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site’s usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News
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The The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator is to restart on Monday following a technical break and glitches in the machine. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
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EMC, RSA, VMware and Intel have announced a new collaboration to introduce a framework encompassing security and compliance for cloud computing in the enterprise space. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia
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Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
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Without Apple headlining, Macworld 2010 was proclaimed a snoozefest before it even started. Now it’s over and we’re all left to sift through the various blog posts and news articles coming from reporters on the scene — which are decidedly fewer in number and weaker in excitement than in previous years. One item that did [...]
With the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft aims to narrow the gap between its OS, the iPhone OS and Android. Built to focus on consumers, Windows Phone 7 Series — or WinPho7 — was designed from the ground up. “We made a very big decision to re-examine everything [...]
Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in nanotechnology. Research in the field has recently led to several new strategies for employing nanotechnology in the fight against cancer, and — so far, at least — the results are promising. One of the hardest parts of [...]
As botnets go, the Kneber botnet, which has hit about 75,000 PCs in roughly 2,500 companies worldwide, is fairly minuscule. However, it’s disproportionately dangerous because it’s aimed at very specific targets — corporations and government departments — whose PCs store critically important information, such as Social Security numbers and corporate login credentials. The botnet used [...]