Approximately 24 million young people in China are addicted to the internet, half of which are specifically “obsessed” with online games. Treatment centers have appeared around the country, ready to treat the problem and ‘cure’ these young people from a terrible, deathly serious affliction.
An official from these camps has gone on record to explain what [...]
Today, an internet milestone is reached with the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom website was registered. Back in March 1985, Symbolics computers in Cambridge, Massachusetts made history with an internet address ending in dotcom. Later that year, another five companies followed suit, effectively setting the very slow trend moving. It wasn’t until [...]
Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and e-commerce servers. RSA authentication is susceptible, they say, to changes in the voltage supply to a private key holder. While guessing the 1,000-plus digits of [...]
Do you have branch offices in China? iSec has published a new report outlining the severity of the attacks on Google.cn, allegedly by the Chinese government, dubbed ‘Aurora’ attacks. Up to 100 companies were victims, and some are speculating that resistance to such attacks is futile. The report lays out the shape of the attacks [...]
An official from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told investigators that the agency doesn’t employ any electrical engineers or software engineers, leaving them woefully unable to investigate correctly what caused the most recent Toyota recall. A modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 [...]
Microsoft on Monday announced its next-generation mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 Series, which will bring together the Zune multimedia experience and Xbox Live gaming to mobile phones worldwide.
Manufacturers have already begun building phones featuring Windows Phone 7 Series with plans for release by the 2010 holiday season, according to Microsoft. Manufacturers on board include [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – IBM said Thursday it has been enlisted by the US Air Force to show how defense and intelligence networks can safely soar into the online software “cloud.”
“Our goal is to demonstrate how cloud computing can be a tool to enable our Air Force to manage, monitor and secure the information [...]
The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in 2008 to $6.75 million in 2009. The Ponemon Institute based its estimates on data from 45 companies that publicly acknowledged [...]
The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. “”We’re not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details,” a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of [...]
The Consumerist deconstructs the appalling ‘optimization’ service that Best Buy has been pushing on consumers in recent weeks. The retailer charges 40 bucks to give you a slower PC and makes bizarre claims that it makes it go 200% faster. ‘We ran the 3DMark 2003 graphics benchmark on each laptop, comparing optimized and non-optimized settings. [...]
