AMD ships Trinity processor, aims for a piece of Intel’s ultrabook market
Built on the legacy of Bulldozer, Trinity is competitive with Intel—sort of.
DDR4 memory is coming soon—maybe too soon
There isn't even an official standard for DDR4, the next generation of computer memory technology. But memory manufacturers are already shipping samples of the first DDR4 memory units, and preparing to...
Has Walmart opened itself up to "Denial of inventory" attacks?
On April 26, Walmart's e-commerce site launched a pay-with-cash feature, allowing shoppers to reserve products for pickup at a local Walmart store. While the feature opens up e-commerce to a larger number of potential...
Alleged "mastermind" of #Antisec added to indictment for Stratfor hack
Jeremy Hammond, the former LulzSec member alleged to have been at the center of the hacking of private intelligence company Stratfor, has now been formally indicted on that charge, as well as the hacking of...
Steganography: how al-Qaeda hid secret documents in a porn video
When a suspected al-Qaeda member was arrested in May of 2011 in Berlin, he was found with a memory card with a password-protected folder—and the files within it were hidden....
Super-yacht IT: life as a nautical broadband specialist
Ed Lasher has a simple way to measure how cool his job is—he just counts how many people have offered to carry his bags on a service call. Lasher is the...
Flashback bots search Twitter for controllers, hit Snow Leopard hardest
Malware investigators for the Russian antivirus company Dr. Web report that the latest version of Flashback, the backdoor malware targeting Macs through a Java exploit, is using Twitter as a backup command and control ne...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Bill banning employer Facebook snooping introduced in Congress
Two members of Congress have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information.
The Social Networking Online Protection...

