eSATA: A doomed stopgap?

eSATA: A doomed stopgap? The kiss of USB 3.0 death

By Chris Mellor Posted in Storage, 20th March 2009 08:02 GMT

Comment The external SATA (eSATA) interconnect is merely an interim idea and the coming of USB 3.0 will kill it off, according to Verbatim’s EMEA business development manager Hans Christoph Kaiser.

The background is [...]

Gmail offers 'undo' email option

Gmail offers ‘undo’ email option Stupid POP tricks

By Austin Modine Posted in Applications, 20th March 2009 19:05 GMT

The folks at Gmail Labs obviously dedicate a healthy amount of brainpower to the prevention of regrettable emails sent through their service.

Custodial hearts at Google who’ve brought us Mail Goggles to stave off late-night drunken [...]

Cybercrime server exposed through Google cache

Cybercrime server exposed through Google cache UK and US IDs exposed to world

By John Leyden Posted in Crime, 23rd March 2009 15:30 GMT

A reported 22,000 card records have been exposed through cached copies of data stored on a defunct cybercrime server.

iTnews in Australia reports that 19,000 of the 22,000 exposed details referred [...]

corporate Twitter snooping

corporate Twitter snooping Cloudy conversations

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco Posted in Applications, 23rd March 2009 17:32 GMT

Twitter has become Salesforce.com’s latest Web 2.0 darling, with a plug-in to the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) system.

On Monday the company announced Salesforce.com CRM for Twitter, which it said would let CRM users search, [...]

Denial of Service

Denial of Service One of the simplest forms of network attack is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Instead of trying to steal information, a DoS attack simply prevents access to a service or resource. There are two general forms of DoS attacks: those that crash services and those that flood services.

Denial of Service [...]