Archives for November, 2009

Smut-ladened spam disguises WoW Trojan campaign


Pwned and porned
A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Generators and UPS fail in London datacentre outage


Tatasup
Tata’s datacentre in the east end of London went titsup for two-hours on Thursday evening, following a power cut.…

Just how political is your IT organisation?


The impact of the non-technical
For this week, the last in this workshop series, we were looking at the near-future, with particular focus on how we deliver server resources and a central question – are we any closer to the nirvana of dynamic IT delivery?…

Web host Daily recovers after Tux-themed defacement


Lock-down follows cartoon penguin attack
UK-based web host Daily has largely restored services following an apparent hack attack on Thursday that replaced content on some sites it hosts with pictures of cartoon penguins.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Smut-ladened spam disguises WoW Trojan campaign


Pwned and porned
A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

IBM shows off Power7 HPC monster


Big Blue unveils big box: Crowd goes wild
SC09  IBM likes to go on and on about the transaction processing power and I/O bandwidth of its System z mainframes, but now there is a new and much bigger kid on the block.…

It’s here at last: The Evolution of x86 Server Estates Report


Modernisation drivers and practicalities
Tech Panel  First of all, a big thank you to all the Reg readers that took the time to fill in our monster survey on x86 server environments, drivers and plans. A full 979 of you responded, which gave us plenty of material to crunch. We now return the favour, in the [...]

Apple tweaks T&Cs for Blighty customers


Famed code of silence (somewhat) broken by OFT
Apple has agreed to rejig its terms and conditions to make them “clearer and fairer” for UK consumers, after the Office of Fair Trading raised concerns about them.…

Toshiba worker arrested for selling copy limit busting SW


You can’t do that in Japan
A Toshiba employee in Japan has been arrested for selling copy limit breaking software, letting buyers copy digital TV programmes on Japanese recording and playback products as much as they liked.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

McKinnon family ‘devastated’ by Home Sec’s latest knock-back


Options running out for ’suicidal’ Pentagon hacker
Solicitors for Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon are planning a 11th-hour judicial review after Home Secretary Alan Johnson decided new medical evidence was insufficient reason for him to step in and block US extradition proceedings.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications