Items tagged with 'RUS'
Federal Broadband Stimulus Funds Utterly Unable To Meet Demand
A few weeks ago, in early August, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski declared that the FCC viewed the creation of a national broadband policy as integral to the future of of the nation. Broadband, according to Genachowski, is "our generation’s infrastructure challenge...It is as important as electricity and highways were for... Read More
Oops! AVG Virus Scanner Crashes Computers
Many techs will agree: antivirus programs can be a hassle. Mostly, the issues tend to stem from slower performance and similar issues that result from using an antivirus program. Still, it’s a bit of a lesser of two evils deal: you can risk getting a virus, or you can deal with lags in performance. Usually, you can count... Read More
Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging"
OMG, finally! We're glad to see a retailer as large as Amazon.com has taken some initiative. How many of you are frustrated by blister or clamshell style packaging such as above? The dang things are so annoying that "how-tos" have been written about them. It's easy to get a cut from their sharp edges, so we're not surprised... Read More
Russian Firm Uses NVIDIA GPUs To Crack WPA, WPA2
We're not sure what's more frightening about this, the fact that the Russians figured out how to do it or that WiFi networks are effectively now completely insecure. ElcomSoft claims they can "recover" WPA and WPA2 encypted passwords using any NVIDIA-based graphics subsystem in a workstation, desktop or even a notebook,... Read More
Microsoft Gurus at Best Buy to Pimp Windows
It appears that Microsoft is doing a lot more than having Jerry Seinfeld munching churros and going shoe shopping with Bill Gates to help bolster the company's image. Part of Microsoft's $300 million marketing campaign includes placing Microsoft customer service representatives in select consumer electronics retail outlets... Read More
Houston, We Have Virus Lift-Off
Surprisingly, this apparently isn't the first time this has happened to NASA. They haven't, to this point, been using antivirus software on the laptops astronauts take into space with them. A lesson for us all? Yep. However, the virus wasn't something that would bring the ISS crashing to Earth. The W32.Gammima.AG worm is... Read More
As Servers Crash, iPhone 3G Buyers Frustrated
It seemed obvious, didn't it? With the new in-store activation process, not only would it take longer, it would also be prone to the same sorts of server issues as last year, when customers would go home and be unable to activate. Only this time, it would in the store. Ah, the joys of early adoption.It... Read More
Yahoo!-Google. Now With New Antitrust Goodness!
As the old expression goes, I don't know what Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is smoking, but I want some. Yesterday Yahoo! announced that they had finally really absolutely unequivocally indubitably without question stopped talking to Microsoft about a takeover by, or joint venture with the Redmond giant, and that they had signed... Read More
Rush Limbaugh Fixed Your Macintosh
As Doctor Venkman might say, it's human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! When Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was having trouble configuring automatic archiving of e-mails by his Macintosh computers, at first he tried contacting the company directly for support. When that didn't... Read More
Russia Wins Silver Medal In Spam
Russia has climbed into second place, behind the good ol' US of A, in producing junk e-mails, according to the security firm Sophos. One in twelve junk e-mails in the world is sent from Russia. China takes third, with 4.2 percent of the trash in any given inbox. "Countries that continually remain among the top... Read More
Hacked Antivirus Site Delivers a Virus
Besides ironic, what other words might come to mind over this, eh?The download section of AvSoft's S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor AVG. "They let one of their pages get hit by an iFrame injection," he said. "It shows that anyone can be a victim....... Read More
Antitrust Investigation. Not Microsoft. Intel
The Attorney General of New York has issued subpoenas to Intel, seeking information about whether Intel unlawfully compelled their customers to exclude rival AMD from the market for certain computer chips. At issue in Cuomo's probe is whether AMD has a fair chance to supply its X86 computer processing units for desktop... Read More
Floppy Boot Disk Viruses- Electric Boogaloo
What's new is old again, it seems. Security researchers are warning consumers to be cautious about using items like freebie flash drives that are given out as souvenirs at trade shows and similar events. There are recent reports of malware being loaded onto removable storage devices like USB flash drives, and even... Read More
Malware Outpacing Anti-Virus Development
In the long battle between malware creators and companies developing and distributing anti-virus software, there seems to be a clear leader at the moment: the malware creators.This isn't entirely unexpected as one would assume that the anti-virus companies can't possibly guess all the different ways which somebody might... Read More
Windows Explorer Labeled a Virus
Linux users might actually agree with this "false positive". On the other hand Microsoft breathes a sigh of relief, as for once the antivirus software in question is not Windows Live OneCare.The security company's systems had decided that a virus called Huhk-C was present in the explorer.exe file, leading to its confinement... Read More
Russian Phishbot Passes The Turing Test
Well, not exactly, but pretty close. The Turing Test is a proposition first offered in the 1950s that tests a computer's ability to fool a human into thinking it's another human, using only natural language text interaction. Well, now there's a Russian website named Cyberlover.ru that sells a software utility... Read More
Symantec Screwup Is 'Worse Than Any Virus'
In mid-November, Symantec released its "Top 5 Security-Menace Predictions for 2008." Perhaps it should have included itself.A routine update from Symantec Security Response wreaked havoc on a California company's clientele this week when it inadvertently tagged a program produced by Solid Oak Software as a virus and cut... Read More
Trend Micro: Game Consoles Need Anti-virus Too!
As consoles once again start looking a lot more like PCs in terms of functionality and capabilities, they are going to need anti-virus protection. At least, that's what Tokyo-based Trend Micro wants PS3 owners to think just about 5 seconds before said PS3 owners buy their new anti-virus software for the PS3.“The company... Read More
Seagate Ships Virus-laden Hard Drives
Subcontractor, located in China? Sounds suspiciously like something to do with toys, doesn't it? But this involves hard drives, rather than toys and lead paint.Seagate is warning that a "small number" of its Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives recently shipped with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus,... Read More
Otellini Talks Anti-Trust In The EU
It's hard not to appreciate a CEO that comes across as direct as Intel's very own Paul Otellini. Like him or not, even AMD fans have to give the man credit for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade, even if that means ruffling a few feathers.It looks like the latest feathers to get ruffled a bit are... Read More
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