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 that eSATA, running at 3Gbit/s (around [...]

March 24th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: News | One comment

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 e-correspondence have now introduced an Undo [...]

March 24th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: News | One comment

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 to US and UK cards and [...]

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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, monitor, and “join” conversations and Tweets.

Salesforce [...]

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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 attacks that crash [...]

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TCP/IP Hijacking

TCP/IP Hijacking :
TCP/IP hijacking is a clever technique that uses spoofed packets to take over a connection between a victim and a host machine. This technique is exceptionally useful when the victim uses a one-time password to connect to the host machine. A one-time password can be used to authenticate once and only once, which means [...]

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OSI Model

Physical layer :
This layer deals with the physical connection between two points. This is the lowest layer, whose primary role is communicating raw bit streams. This layer is also responsible for activating, maintaining, and deactivating these bit-stream communications.

Data-link layer :
This layer deals with actually transferring data between two points. In contrast with the physical layer, which [...]

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