Archives for December, 2011

How To: Enable TRIM with Non-Apple SSD


Apple enabled TRIM support in OS X Lion 10.7 but there’s a catch; Apple only allows TRIM to work when using an Apple sanctioned SSD. If you switch to a non-Apple SSD or upgrade your hard drive to an SSD, TRIM support does not get enabled by default. In fact, Lion offers [...]

Apple’s Siri gets sweary with British child


Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***
The mother of a 10-year-old boy in Coventry has been expressing her shock after a demonstration model of Apple’s iPhone 4S swore at her son.…

Will TWO next-gen iPads be unveiled at January’s iWorld?


Rumour mill predicts high-end iPad 3 and mid-range twin
Apple will unveil not one but two iPad 3s on 23 January at the iWorld conference, according to a somewhat unlikely rumour breathlessly reported by gossip pumpers Digitimes.…

Kaspersky claims ‘smoking code’ linking Stuxnet and Duqu


Warns of three other unknown variants
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same, and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation.…

Kaspersky claims ‘smoking code’ linking Stuxnet and Duqu


Warns of three other unknown variants
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same, and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation.…

Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Secure Hard Drive Review


Lenovo has made versions of their secure external hard drives for a while, we reviewed their eSATA version about a year ago. This time we’re looking at the USB 3.0 enabled hard drive, available in capacities of 500GB and 750GB. The new USB 3.0 drives are highlighted by the same security – [...]

Corsair Force Series 3 Review


The Corsair Force Series 3 is one of three current generation SSDs offered by Corsair. It’s nearly identical to their Force Series GT, both leverage a SATA 6Gb/s interface, SandForce SF-2281 processors and 25nm MLC NAND. The key difference is the Series 3 uses Asynchronous NAND where the GT uses Synchronous NAND. [...]

Wi-Fi Protected Setup easily unlocked by security flaw


Couple of hours of brute force will crack a network’s PIN
Security researcher Stefan Viehböck has demonstrated a critical flaw in the Wi-Fi Protected standard that opens up routers to attack and has prompted a US-CERT Vulnerability notice.…

ALIEN ARTIFACTS can best be FOUND ON MOON


Boffins advocate volunteer @home trawl of NASA’s lunar pix
Space boffins have come up with a plan which strikes a deeply resonant chord with us here on the Register lunar desk. The scientists advocate the settting up of a distributed volunteer effort to trawl for signs of alien visits through the vast databases of lunar imagery [...]

Nekkid Tech: The end of the year show


Big Data? Puhleese!
Hello again from Nekkid Tech, podcast about enterprise tech hosted by Greg Knieriemen. This week’s episode finds Greg and crew in reflective mode as they consider some of the big stories of 2011.…