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The 2007 security hall of shame 27 December, 2007 07:47:46
Bad breaches, ghastly gaffes and five people we'd like to forgetHow bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every sort of meltdown predicted -- more criminalization of the hacker community, more Web-application attacks, more phishing, more spamming, more zero-day attacks and more virtualization-related threats -- we're happy to tell you that you are likely to look back on 2007 as the peaceful old days. - +
True crime: The botnet barons 04 January, 2008 07:03:57
Two weeks ago, the feds revealed the names of eight people who had used botnets to engage in nefarious activity. Here are their storiesWhen federal agents announced on November 29 that they'd indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in criminal activity, the press release barely explained the nature and extent of the men's crimes -- or the investigations that led to arrests in an operation the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have termed Bot Roast II. - +
Four Hynix executives plead guilty to DRAM price fixing 02 March, 2006 08:05:08
Four Hynix executives have agreed to plead guilty in a US federal DRAM price-fixing investigation.Four South Korean executives from Hynix Semiconductor have agreed to plead guilty for their role in fixing prices of DRAM (dynamic RAM), agreeing to serve about one-half year in U.S. prison and pay a US$250,000 fine each. - +
Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet) 02 October, 2007 06:00:11
Fifty years ago, on Oct. 4, 1957, radio-transmitted beeps from the first man-made object to orbit the Earth stunned and frightened the US, and the country's reaction to the "October surprise" changed computing forever.Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or, going way back to the 1800s, is it the Babbage Difference Engine? - +
Forget the OLPC: Here's a 30-children-per-desktop solution 17 October, 2007 10:49:36
Consider the similarity between Angelina Jolie and the One Laptop Per Child project.Consider the similarity between Angelina Jolie and the One Laptop Per Child project. Both garner gobs of favorable publicity for their humanitarian work that overshadow, in Jolie's case, her recent dry spell at the box office, and in the OLPC's case, its lack of a proven business model.
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Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, a U.S. citizen who had been sentenced to serve a two-and-a-half-year jail term in China for selling pirated DVDs, has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and agreed to forfeit US$823,833 in profits to the U.S. government, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement Monday.
Guthrie, who had also been fined 500,000 renminbi (US$61,976) as part of his conviction by a Shanghai court, was deported to the U.S. in September after serving less than six months of his Chinese sentence.
Guthrie was convicted in April along with three others: two Chinese citizens, Wu Dong and Wu Shibiao, and an American, Cody Abram Thrush. Guthrie's accomplices were each sentenced to up to 15 months and fined between 10,000 renminbi and 30,000 renminbi. Thrush was deported from China on July 1.
The four men were arrested following joint Sino-U.S investigation that resulted in the seizure of 210,000 pirated DVDs and US$67,000 and 222,000 renminbi in cash by Chinese police.
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ARN Panel Sessions: Day 3The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
Weekly Tech News update - July 4th, 2008YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable laying ship.
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Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
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DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
Put your home based business on the map! Australian Home Based Business Awards 2008 03 July, 2008 12:39:00
V/Line and Oakton use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to develop an Executive HR Dashboard
With the help of Oakton, V/Line - Victoria’s regional public transport provider - utilised Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to develop an Executive HR Dashboard report.
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