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News : Cyber attacks hit Fujitsu local government system

A Fujitsu computer system run by about 200 Japanese local governments has been hit by a series of cyber attacks and is in a vulnerable condition, the company said Thursday. The online system, developed to enable local residents to request official certificates and documents on the Internet, was paralysed twice on Wednesday afternoon, a Fujitsu […]

News : Notorious eBay hacker gets 3-year suspended sentence

Vladuz, the Romanian hacker who repeatedly accessed off-limits parts of eBay’s website and then publicly taunted company officials over the security lapses, has been handed a suspended three-year sentence, according to news reports. The Bucharest appeal court issued the sentence on Wednesday to 23-year-old Vlad Duiculescu, AFP reported. He was arrested in Romania in 2008, […]

News : Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites ,     Beware of BEAST decrypting secret PayPal cookies By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Posted in ID, 19th September 2011 21:10 GMT Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently […]

Tech : RealVNC demos BIOS-based server at IDF 2011

VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is one of the of oldest remote desktop solutions around, and while its RFB (remote framebuffer) protocol can require a little more bandwidth than the competition, it’s long been praised for its broad cross-platform support and elegant simplicity. Last year, RealVNC teamed up with Intel to incorporate a bona fide VNC […]

News: Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers

Using copper cables to transfer data around a computer? Get your head out of the sand, Intel thinks that’s on the outs and is touting its recent accomplishments with Silicon Photonics and integrated lasers, using light pulses to move data at 50Gbps.The emphasis is on low-cost, high-speed fiber optics, the removal of cable clutter, and […]

VMware Launches Open-Source Cloud

VMware has entered the cloud game by offering an open-source package called Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service that should strike fear in the hearts of its competitors, especially the likes of Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Rackspace. The platform will offer developers the tools to build out applications on public clouds, private clouds and anyplace else, whether the […]