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Written by lyecdevf
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:36 |
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The esteemed English department at Trinity College, Dublin, recently added a frightening and powerful new professor to its ranks: Conan the Barbarian.
The fake announcement came courtesy of a hacker, who tapped into the university's website and plastered a picture of Dr. Conan T. Barbarian to the site.
The hacker, however, did more than just place a picture on the site of the iconic character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982's film adaptation and its 1984 sequel, "Conan the Destroyer."
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:02 |
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Written by lyecdevf
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Friday, 16 September 2011 14:19 |
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By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Posted 14th September 2011 04:53 GMT
searchers have discovered one of the first pieces of malware ever used in the wild that modifies the software on the motherboard of infected computers to ensure the infection can't be easily eradicated.
Known as Trojan.Mebromi, the rootkit reflashes the BIOS of computers it attacks to add malicious instructions that are executed early in a computer's boot-up sequence. The instructions, in turn, alter a computer's MBR, or master boot record, another system component that gets executed prior to the loading of the operating system of an infected machine. By corrupting the processes that run immediately after a PC starts, the malware stands a better chance of surviving attempts by antivirus programs to remove it.
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Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2011 14:17 |
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Written by ph0bYx
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 12:25 |
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Steve Jobs, mastermind behind Apple, has resigned as CEO of the company effective immediately.
Tim Cook, formerly Apple, Inc’s chief operating officer, has been named the new CEO, Apple’s board of directors announced on Wednesday. Jobs has been appointed chairman of the board.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” Jobs wrote in a letter to Apple’s board on Thursday. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004. In January of this year Jobs stepped aside to “focus on [his] health.” He has declined to elaborate on his condition.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 August 2011 12:35 |
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Written by lyecdevf
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:52 |
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New hardware should make it possible for all online data to be as secure as a credit card transaction.
By Tom Simonite
A new computer chip will help tackle one of the Web's weak spots—the fact that most data is exchanged without any protection against hackers or eavesdroppers.
For some communications, such as credit card payments and online banking transactions, it is standard to encrypt the information that users and websites send each other. But most online activity is completely unprotected, largely because encrypting communications requires extra work from Web servers and software, which is costly to implement.
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Last Updated on Monday, 05 September 2011 11:49 |
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Written by floodhound2
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 05:44 |
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Microsoft blog primes Windows 8
Microsoft has launched a new blog to preview features of Windows 8, billed as the biggest overhaul of the PC operating system since Windows 95. There are no details on the new capabilities of the OS yet, but plenty of promise on how it will extend the Windows franchise into new kinds of mobile, Web and ARM-based systems.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:39 |
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