According to a new security report from Sophos , "drive-by" download attacks now constitute more than half of malware attacks on Web users. And one drive-by exploit in particular accounts for 31 percent of the Web attacks detected by the company's security software in the second half of 2011—a package called Blackhole. [......]
In an interview with Reuters , former National Security Agency Director Mike McConnell claimed that the US has already used cyber attacks against an adversary successfully. And it's just a matter of time before someone unleashes cyber attacks on US critical infrastructure, he warned. [......]
Someone check Trendnet's engineers for whiplash because the speed geeks in lab coats just unveiled a pair of super fast networking products, including a 1300Mbps dual band wireless router built around the new 802.11ac standard (TEW-811DR), and a 500Mbps Compact Powerline AV Adapter (TPL-406E and TPL-406E2K). [......]
Having tackled Zuckerberg and the Winkelvoss twins , The Social Network script writer Aaron Sorkin has been offered tech-land's most sought after scripting gig: writing the Steve Jobs movie. Sony, which bought the rights to Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography for a rumoured $1 million, has offered the Sorkin the job and he's having a good old think about it. Good job Sorkin told E! Online, "Sony has asked me to write the movie and it's something I'm strongly considering, "Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages[......]
With concern mounting over the potential impact of the Stop Online Piracy Act and claims that it could make the Domain Name Service more vulnerable, one group is looking to circumvent the threat of domain name blocking and censorship by essentially creating a new Internet top-level domain outside of ICANN control. Called Dot-BIT , the effort currently uses proxies, cryptography, and a small collection of DNS servers to create a section of the Internet's domain address space where domains can be provisioned, moved, and traded anonymously. So far, over 4,000 domains have been registered within Dot-BIT's .bit virtual top level domain (TLD)[......]
Google TV 2.0 launched earlier this week , finally bringing Android Market to the living room platform. [......]
It was mid-1971. Ten scientists met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Tech Square in Cambridge. They had been given a task by the director of the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office . [......]
It appears that AT&T's $39 billion bid to purchase T-Mobile may have moved into the desperation phase of the transaction. [......]
The Philadelphia Media Network has had an ambitious summer: in July, the company announced their intention to sell subsidized Android tablets with subscriptions to the digital editions of Philly's two daily papers. [......]
Apple's various iOS devices are great for watching videos, but there are drawbacks. The process of transferring videos onto your device can be a lengthy one, and in many instances you may well have to convert to a format that can be played in iOS. Battling with iTunes is something that most iPhone and iPad owners want to avoid as much as possible, so the video streaming app Air Playit is likely to be welcomed with open arms. [......]
Skype has announced the release of Skype for Windows 5.5 . Its headline feature is deeper integration with Facebook. Once installed, you'll be able to see which Facebook friends are online and chat directly from Skype itself, plus update your Skype Mood and Facebook status together. [......]
I had a friend who once amazed me by writing a basketball game for the TI-81 graphing calculator. This, however, is an order of magnitude more impressive. Gossamer is a web browser for the TI-83+ through TI-84+SE calculators and, through the use of a number of fairly interesting network protocol APIs, it lets you see the text of almost any website right on the calculators tiny, pixelated screen. [......]
Huge news! The iPad is trumping Android tablets in the enterprise! Actually this is rather small news and could probably be assumed by just about anyone who knows what they’re talking about. Either way, the smarty arties at Good Technology kindly mapped out the stats sans assumption. [......]
Applifier , the cross-promotional network of social game publishers, announced today that it has delivered over 100 million game installs for free on Facebook. Launched in 2010, Applifier has set out on a mission to help game publishers find new users and get their games discovered on the social network. [......]
When you're next looking for a backup program then you could try to save money by opting for the free version of a commercial tool, but that's often a mistake. Many have key functions stripped out, and annoying nag screens added in an effort to persuade you to upgrade[......]
