Archives for October, 2009

DDoS attacks topple 40 Swedish sites


Police among victims
Swedish authorities have few leads in their investigation of a massive denial-of-service attack on Thursday that downed about 40 websites belonging to police and media outlets.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Wintel 7 machines freeze out iPhone


Jobs can’t drive P55?
If you’re having trouble syncing your iPhone with a PC based on the Intel P55 chipset and running Windows 7, you’re not alone.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

California man accused of DOSing site he founded


Former YouSendIt CEO and (very) prolific iPhone developer
Federal prosecutors have accused a co-founder of YouSendIt.com of repeatedly launching web attacks against the popular upload site.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

3PAR shows not so sub-par results


Modest improvement
3PAR has announced modestly improved results beating expectations and set against a still-depressed customer spending environment.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

3PAR shows not so sub-par results


Modest improvement
3PAR has announced modestly improved results beating expectations and set against a still-depressed customer spending environment.…

Green Berets get wearable combat smartphones


Monocle-vid computing for the rest of the best
It would seem that the American Land Warrior wearable war-smartphone system, once reviled by troops and cancelled by top brass, is now firmly on the road to military fashionability. The ultimate kit accolade – used by special forces – now appears to have been bestowed on the digi-trooper [...]

Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises


There’s never a copper around when you need one
Thieves in Sussex made off with more than half a mile of BT cabling in an overnight operation that cut off 800 homes and businesses.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Numonyx wiggles out of PCM scaling trap


Intel and Numonyx open a PCM die capacity door
Intel and Numonyx announced a way to build vertical stacks of Phase Change Memory arrays without losing performance.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Numonyx wiggles out of PCM scaling trap


Intel and Numonyx open a PCM die capacity door
Intel and Numonyx announced a way to build vertical stacks of Phase Change Memory arrays without losing performance.…

eBay.co.uk blocked for smelling phishy


OpenDNS makes oopsie
Online tat bazaar ebay.co.uk was blocked for much of yesterday because OpenDNS wrongly labelled auction pages on the site as phishing pages.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work