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  • Shawshank thesp erased from NY voter rolls

    USA '08 Mr. Susan Sarandon fears nationwide election meltdown

    Susan Sarandon's common law hubby was miffed this morning when election officials at his local polling station couldn't find his name. "The issue is that they removed my name from the voting rolls,” Tim Robbins told The New York Times. “My name was there for the primaries.” The Academy Award-winning American film actor says …

    Odds and Sods 5 Nov 2008, 00:19

  • Dell pressures workers into leave without pay

    Bon voyage!...or else

    Nearly all employees at Dell are being asked to take a week of unpaid leave. If they don't obey, another round of layoffs will begin. Workers at the Round Rock-based PC vendor recently got an email memo from founder and CEO Michael Dell outlining the company's latest efforts to cut costs this quarter. Part of Dell's scheme …

    Financial News 5 Nov 2008, 01:08

  • FCC defies Dolly Parton, opens white space waves

    All takin' and no givin'

    Defying TV broadcasters, wireless microphone makers, God, and Dolly Parton, the FCC has opened America's "white spaces" to unlicensed net devices. "Opening the white spaces will allow for the creation of a WiFi on steroids," according to a canned statement from Federal Communications Commission commissioner Kevin Martin. "It …

    Mobile 5 Nov 2008, 01:11

  • NY man charged with boosting TJX credit hijack

    Alleged sniffer mods

    A New York man has been charged with aiding the alleged leader of the hacking gang accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from stores owned by TJX Companies and other companies. Federal prosecutors in Boston accused Stephen Watt, 25, of modifying a sniffer program for Albert Gonzalez, who was …

    Security 5 Nov 2008, 01:13

  • Intel selling half its stake in VMware

    EMC and Cisco snag 1 million shares

    Intel's investment arm plans to pawn half its stake in VMware, a recent regulatory filing has revealed. The chip maker also disclosed it already sold 1 million shares to Cisco Systems and the virtualization house's parent company, EMC. The stock shedding will total 4.75 million shares of the 9.5 million Intel purchased in …

    Financial News 5 Nov 2008, 01:14

  • Is the internet going down down under?

    It's the end of the net as we know it

    The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous repercussions for the future of the internet in the UK. Regular readers will be aware of the Australian Government’s plans to clamp down on the internet down under. These, the brainchild of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, have …

    Law 5 Nov 2008, 02:02

  • Barack Obama will be president

    America Saved Palin-tology defeated

    Barack Obama has defeated John McCain to become the next president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the highest office in the land. At 8pm west coast time, as the polls closed in California, the country's major television networks projected that Obama would win the 270 electoral votes needed for …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 04:29

  • Nokia closes plant, 'reorganises' 600 staff

    Marketing dept takes the hit

    Nokia will close its site at Turku, Finland and redeploy the staff there to Salo or near Helsinki. The company has also announced a "sharpened focus" that will put 130 research staff at risk - plus another 35 "workforce adjustments" in operations. Around 200 of the staff are Finland-based, the rest are spread around the world …

    Mobile 5 Nov 2008, 07:02

  • School to hand out e-textbooks

    Students to swot by smartphone

    A London school’s pencilled in plans to ditch old-style textbooks because it wants pupils to swot up using mobile phones instead. The Hackney City Academy, which is due to open in September 2009, plans to put PDF copies of its textbooks onto its intranet, from where pupils can access the books directly from their handsets or …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 08:02

  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi ExpressCard and Wireless Receiver

    Review Film fans and game buffs, rejoice

    Creative's X-Fi sound cards have been around for a while, but with the Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook we have the first ExpressCard 34 iteration of the breed. That's not to say laptops with ExpressCard 54 slots have been ignored - the Sound Blaster comes with a suitable adaptor. Whichever of these slots you use, the card's all …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 09:02

  • Gordo entertains a couple of lapdancers

    We're not sex workers, pair tell Number 10

    Two lapdancers from the Spearmint Rhino chain yesterday shimmied their way to Downing Street to present a petition protesting against the attempted reclassification of their places of work as “sex encounter establishments”. According to the Sun, backbench Labour MP Roberta Blackman-Woods has proposed the move which would "make …

    Bootnotes 5 Nov 2008, 09:02

  • CBI warns of harsh winter for small biz

    Prising cash out of the banks

    Business group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called on banks to free up lending to small and medium enterprises this winter, warning that many firms will be looking for funding. John Cridland, deputy director-general of the CBI, said businesses would be forced to cut jobs and investment if banks did not free up …

    Small Biz 5 Nov 2008, 09:50

  • Defra drafts proper pet practice for the daft

    Irresponsible idiot? Want a kitten? We can help

    The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting on new guidelines for gormless pet owners who don't know a dog's arse from whatever it has in lieu of an elbow. The cat welfare document (see here) will be published as a leaflet to hammer home some of the finer points of feline care on the heels of …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 10:02

  • Another 180 'hover & stare' ducted fan bots for US forces

    'T-hawk™' petrol peepers: Now with swivel spyeyes

    The US military has ordered a further 180 hovering ducted-fan spyeye robots, renowned for their ability to operate in tight places and "stare" through windows at will. The latest in "hover & stare" - now with moving eyes US manufacturer Honeywell announced the order yesterday, saying that it had been awarded a $65m Pentagon …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 10:04

  • Freesat gets Five

    Completing the set of terrestrial broadcasters

    Channel Five will arrive on free-to-air satellite broadcasting network Freesat in a couple of weeks. The launch date is Tuesday, 18 November, and when the signal appears, your Freesat set-top box - or telly if you have a Freesat-branded TV - will auto-install it among the list of channels, Freesat promised. The broadcaster …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 10:21

  • The great platform and operational excellence survey

    Reg Tech Panel Brace yourself, this one's a cracker

    There's a lot of stuff running on servers that underpin the majority of your organizations applications and end user computing. From operating systems, web servers, through BI and analytics systems, to transaction engines, workflow engines and other forms of middleware – not to mention the development environments and …

    Tech Panel 5 Nov 2008, 10:58

  • VIA and Nvidia nix netbook pact

    Anti-Atom partnership dissolved, claim moles

    Nvidia and VIA have reportedly canned their plan to jointly develop a reference design for Small, Cheap Computers based on their chippery. The scheme - agreement for which was reached back in April - has now been suspended, VIA moles told DigiTimes. The deal was to have paved the way for a reference design centring on VIA's …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 10:59

  • Which top-of-the-line graphics card should I buy?

    Q&A

    I play Crysis and Half-Life 2-based games on a PC connected to a 50in Pioneer Kuro plasma, but my ATI Radeon 1950 Pro is starting to show it's age. What should I replace it with? Sapphire's HD 4850 X2 I'm planning a new quad-core system but do I upgrade the graphics to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 or an AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 11:02

  • Dell's sticks with dual de-dupe strategy

    Thinks two heads are better than one

    Dell is going to have two de-duplication technologies, not a single de-duplication architecture across its products, On Monday it announced a single, block-level de-duplication architecture to be applied across its PowerVault, EqualLogic and Dell/EMC storage arrays next year. The technology is based on licensed intellectual …

    Storage 5 Nov 2008, 11:06

  • Coppers nab more mobe-yapping drivers

    HELLO? YES, I'M IN A TWISTED METAL CARCASS!

    The number of people charged for driving while talking on the mobile has been climbing steadily for the last few years. The majority were Londoners, who are also the most adept in getting away with it. The figures come from a commons answer in response to a question from Bury MP David Ruffley asking how many drivers were …

    Mobile 5 Nov 2008, 11:18

  • Yee-hah! Ford demos electric pick-up truck

    'Leccy Tech US vehicle based on British motor tech

    Grab your shotgun, a six-pack and smell-hound because a 400+ bhp electric version of Ford's F-150 pick-up has been unveiled at the 2008 Speciality Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas. The project is a collaboration between Ford and British company PML-Flightlink and is powered by PML's Hi-Pa Drive system, …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 11:32

  • The Independent gets the wrong end of Jacqui's gIMP

    Universal snooping plans trailed again at ISP jaw-jaw

    A confused and technically illiterate account of Jacqui Smith's government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP) by The Independent crosses our desk this morning. The perma-struggling* paper said it "has learnt" (journalist-speak for "I spoke to someone on the phone") that "internet 'black boxes' will be used to collect …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 11:36

  • Opera update plugs bug brace

    History search vuln exorcised

    Opera has updated its browser to plug a pair of critical security holes. Version 9.62 of the browser fixes a vulnerability in the History Search function which creates a possible mechanism for hacker to inject code. The flaw, discovered by researcher Aviv Raff, left Opera users at risk of attack simply by visiting booby- …

    Enterprise Security 5 Nov 2008, 11:37

  • Bombproof TV rolling-news eco bins target the City

    Zeitgeistgasm: Rubbish/media security recycling

    City workers not yet living in old fridge boxes under motorways will now be able to receive news of their redundancies even faster, as a new video news channel may soon deploy onto street screens across the Square Mile. The screens will be attached to recyclo-eco-bins - which will also feature secret terrorist-bomb-proofing …

    Science 5 Nov 2008, 11:45

  • Smith's airport ID card plans cut back to small pilot scheme

    Small pilots still angry, though...

    Jacqui Smith's plans for ID cards for airport workers are in deeper trouble, with the news that next year's rollout has been downscaled to an 18 month trial at only two airports, Manchester and City of London. According to a report in today's Financial Times, the Home Secretary is due to announce the trial on Thursday - but the …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 12:09

  • Asus denies sub-10in Eee PCs for the chop

    Asus UK has said it's not going phase out its 7in and 8.9in Eee PC netbooks next year after all. In fact, these models may be in for a revamp in the near future. Last week, Asus President Jerry Shen indicated that the company's experience of selling Small, Cheap Computers for over a year had shown it that punters prefer 10in …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 12:15

  • Demand for consoles, add-ons skyrockets as PC games plunge

    UK Gamers shifting to dedicated devices?

    Videogame sales in the UK will eclipse the combined value of music and video purchases in the UK this year for the first time ever, despite plummeting demand for PC titles. Verdict Research said that, by the end of 2008, UK gamers will have splashed out a credit crunch-defying £4.6bn ($7.2bn/€5.7bn) on gaming kit, including …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 12:28

  • Microsoft retires Windows 3.11 on 18th birthday

    Withdraws sales of old-timer OS

    Microsoft finally withdrew its ancient operating system, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, on 1 November from the embedded market. In July the company told electronics vendors that the 15-year-old OS would be put to bed at the start of this month. Presumably it made that announcement to give manufacturers still partying like it’s …

    Operating Systems 5 Nov 2008, 12:46

  • Jonathan Schwartz scrambles aboard the Obama train

    Sun shines out dept...

    Sun showed it can still get ahead of the crowd last night, as it became the first tech company to try and grab some reflected glory from Barack Obama's victory in the US election. The polls had barely closed in California, before Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' blogged this comment on Obama's win. "On behalf of Sun Microsystems, I …

    Servers 5 Nov 2008, 12:48

  • Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with Vodafone HSDPA

    Review The best netbook with integrated 3G goodness

    Dell may be late to the netbook party, but it's turned up with something very fashionable on its arm to make up: the Inspiron Mini 9, bulging in all the right places with HSDPA 3G mobile broadband goodness. Dell's Inspiron Mini 9: now with HSDPA, courtesy of Vodafone Unlike the Advent 4213 we reviewed recently, which also …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 13:02

  • Europe takes aim at BBC licence fee

    Calls for 'less and better targeted aid'

    The European Commission has opened a period of consultation on its proposals to change the rules governing state aid handed to broadcasters. Public broadcasters across Europe - including the beeb - get €22bn in government funding - in third place behind agriculture and transport. The EC is keen to tweak the rules to allow …

    Music and Media 5 Nov 2008, 13:08

  • Roadpricing satnav spybox trials under way

    ANPR alone too easy to beat

    The UK's Transport minister has confirmed that technical trials of road-pricing systems are underway. At a conference yesterday, Paul Clark discussed the ongoing tests - first reported in September - with delegates and journalists. The government, despite having seemed to back away from a national road pricing scheme last …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 13:10

  • Whitehall credit card abuse and payment fraud costs £4m

    Fewer incidents but bigger losses

    Financial losses in UK government rose last year despite a decreased number of incidents, according to official Treasury figures. Losses of £4.28m from 761 cases of internal fraud or theft were reported by 25 Whitehall departments during the year ending 31 march 2008. This compares to 1,067 cases costing £3.86m in the …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 13:28

  • Orange opens dual-display LG clamshell

    Orange has taken exclusive delivery of LG’s latest talker: a stylish clamshell device with two screens. LG's KF300 has a second screen in the middle there, somewhere, we're told Underneath the KF300’s internal 2.2in display is a series of hotkeys that’ll take you directly to frequently used features, including the phonebook …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 13:29

  • Oki okays release of 'jumping robot leg' chair

    Spring release?

    Japan's Oki has developed an office chair that, it claims, can jump. And we thought all they were good for is spinning around and skating along on the casters. Oki's chair, curiously codenamed 'Leopard', employs what the company's boffins call a "robot leg", with the bit for your bum equivalent to the thigh. The calf, ankle …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 13:29

  • UK.gov apologises for Tory-bashing child database memo

    Civil servants went rogue on partisan missive, DCSF Sir Humphrey says

    A top government official has apologised after civil servants working on the ContactPoint project wrote a memo to local authorities that was sharply critical of Tory policy on child data sharing. In a letter to shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families Michael Gove, David Bell wrote: "The individuals …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 13:33

  • Firefox hits 20% share as testers tickle 'pr0n mode'

    Mozilla gets its jiggy on

    Popular browser Firefox has snatched more than 20 per cent market share during two separate weeks in October, according to new statistics. Net Applications, which compiled the data, claimed that Mozilla’s web browser crossed the significant threshold for the week starting 5 October, and, since then, has continued to float …

    Applications 5 Nov 2008, 13:40

  • Guy Fawkes stunt arrives early

    Comment Blows up junior transport minister

    A Libertarian celebration of Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night has put junior transport minister Tom Harris in trouble - and yet again, it is his shoot-from-the-hip style of blogging that is the cause of his discomfort. Back in June, he delighted hard-pressed families in his Glasgow constituency struggling with the credit crunch by …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 14:05

  • Nasty Toryboy bloggers ate my politics, claims Blears

    There should (will) be a law against it

    Cynical, viciously nihilist bloggers are destroying British political culture, claims Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. And furthermore, she is due to say today in a speech to the Hansard Society, they're all Tories. "The most popular blogs are rightwing," claims Blears, "ranging from the considered Tory views of Iain Dale, …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 14:23

  • Lords demand DNA database deletions

    Ermine-clad defenders of our liberty

    The House of Lords forced another climb-down by the government yesterday by voting to amend the rules for the DNA database to allow innocent people to have their DNA samples destroyed and removed from the database. The Lords heard that existing guidelines made it all but impossible to get off the database once you were on it. …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 14:37

  • HP apes IBM's SVC

    SAN Virtualisation Services Platform

    HP is introducing a SAN storage virtualisation platform, using LSI software, to combine mid-range HP and third-party drive arrays into a single pool of storage. HP's SAN Virtualisation Services Platform (SVSP) mimics IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in being a Fibre Channel (FC) fabric-attached controller. It can aggregate HP …

    Storage 5 Nov 2008, 14:56

  • Olympus E30 DSLR leaked

    Details of an upcoming Olympus digital SLR camera have been released by an online retailer. Olumpus' E30 DSLR: coming soon Although the manufacturer’s yet to make a formal announcement about the camera, online photography retailer Adorama said Olympus has “announced” that the mid-range shooter will be called the E30 and …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 15:19

  • Will 'wi-fi on steroids' give you spots, baldness and liver damage?

    Playing nicely in the white spaces

    The FCC has voted to allow unlicensed use of White Space spectrum between the TV stations. Meanwhile UK-regulator Ofcom today published a statement on cooperative common spectrum, but both proposals are based on technically unproven concepts of radio agility that hardly stack up. The concept of a radio that happily hops around …

    Wireless 5 Nov 2008, 15:27

  • Orange IPTV: Missing, presumed dead

    Tuned out

    What if you launched an IPTV service, and nobody cared? That's the question that has apparently led Orange execs to ditch plans to offer broadband customers pay TV down their phone lines. Orange UK chief Tom Alexander said yesterday that a review of the planned service had concluded it was too similar to BT Vision, Reuters …

    Telecoms 5 Nov 2008, 15:29

  • Google! aborts! Yahoo! deal!

    Advertisers and regulators win the day

    Google is abandoning attempts to push through its ad-sharing deal with Yahoo! The two sides put the deal on hold while it was investigated by lawyers from the Department of Justice. The agreement would mean Google provided adverts for Yahoo! properties. Lawyers were concerned any tie-up would give Google an effective monopoly …

    Financial News 5 Nov 2008, 16:13

  • SanDisk pitches 100x SSD speed boost tech

    Slow random writes hidden in fast sequential writes

    SanDisk has come up with a tweak for solid-state drives that, it claims, will accelerate SSD random write speeds by a factor of 100. Dubbed ExtremeFFS, the technology is a Flash file management system that decouples physical and logical storage, allowing data to be written to a drive randomly yet very quickly. Essentially, …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 16:20

  • PETA goes ape over Sega chimp advert

    Samba De Amigo advert used real chimp

    An animal rights group went bananas when it discovered that Sega had used a real chimpanzee in an advert for its latest Wii game. But the gaming firm has now promised to end its monkey business. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com In the advert for Samba De Amigo, a chimpanzee is shown shaking the Wii …

    Reg Hardware 5 Nov 2008, 16:26

  • Pentagon spends $442m on 'multiple kill' space interceptors

    Smart swarms to eliminate ICBM 'threat clusters'

    The US Missile Defence Agency has assigned a further $442m for work on "multiple kill vehicles", designed to let a single American interceptor rocket destroy several orbital targets. The multi-kill capability is seen as vital if the nascent US missile shield is ever to become a credible defence. Friday's contract award was to …

    Government 5 Nov 2008, 16:44

  • 9 hilarious election tweets worth remembering

    Microblogging service explodes with Twittard wits

    It was an epic night for nettards and social inadequates as Barack Obama beat that guy the Vietnamese tortured to become the United States' first black African-American president-elect. And hey, it was all go down at Twitter, as the microblogging service exploded in a veritable bukkake of inanities and half-baked blogulations …

    Bootnotes 5 Nov 2008, 16:59

  • Atrato taps salesman for CEO post

    Video surveillance storage bank seeks cash

    Start-up Atrato has made Steve Visconti, previously EVP for sales and marketing, its new CEO. The previous CEO, Dan McCormick, becomes chairman of the board and will focus more on fund raising. The Velocity1000 is Atrato's high-performance storage array for video surveillance, digital media, government security and computing …

    Storage 5 Nov 2008, 17:13

  • Microsoft woos startups with new BizSpark program

    Terminal jive

    Redmond is giving a select bunch of software startups thousands of dollars worth of development tools and server software at a big discount for up to three years. Companies signing up to the deal won’t have to stump up a fee at the beginning of the agreement. However, they will be required to pay out $100 when they leave the …

    Applications 5 Nov 2008, 17:18

  • Porn breath tests for PCs heralds 'stop and scan'

    Linux border patrol

    Technology that claims to pick up traces of illicit images on PCs has attracted the interest of Australian cops. The software, developed in an Australian University, might eventually be used to screen PCs for pr0n during border inspections. Compared to breath test tools used by the police in a different context, the software …

    Security 5 Nov 2008, 17:26

  • Sun injects Euro universities with OpenSparc

    The Great Tech Feedback Loop

    The processor and operating system technologies that made Sun Microsystems one of the first big Silicon Valley startups got their start three decades inside the computer science departments of two universities. It was Stanford University for the hardware and the University of California at Berkeley for the operating system that …

    Servers 5 Nov 2008, 17:48

  • Michael Crichton dead at 66

    Jurassic Park novelist had cancer

    Michael Crichton - the author, filmmaker, and television producer best known for his 1990 novel Jurassic Park - is dead at the age of 66. According to a statement released by his family, Crichton was privately battling cancer. "While the world knew him as a great story teller that challenged our preconceived notions about the …

    Odds and Sods 5 Nov 2008, 19:28

  • Report: Obama, McCain campaigns hit with 'sophisticated' cyberattack

    'Serious amount of files' lifted

    Sophisticated overseas hackers broke in to the computer systems of both the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns and stole a large amount of data, according to an article published Wednesday by Newsweek. Officials with the FBI and the Secret Service notified Obama staffers in August of the breach after tech consultants for …

    Security 5 Nov 2008, 19:30

  • Who's got more cash? Apple or Microsoft?

    Earnings closer than you think

    Recent figures from Microsoft and Apple reveal some interesting changes to how the companies compare financially. Apple's earnings may be closer to Microsoft's than you think. Apple's PC and server sales still account for a small fraction of the worldwide market. And even if you go by Apple's latest official quarterly earnings …

    Financial News 5 Nov 2008, 20:31

  • Boffins: global warming kills lemmings, not suicide

    Norwegian rodents dying against will

    The Norwegian lemming population is dwindling - through no fault of its own. According to a report published in the science journal Nature, lemming numbers are shrinking thanks to rising temperatures brought on by global warming, putting an end to the population peaks and valleys that have traditionally characterized the …

    Science 5 Nov 2008, 21:13

  • Hackers jailbreak T-Mobile's Googlephone

    Gaping loophole = easy root access

    Hackers have managed to jailbreak T-Mobile's new G1 phone by exploiting a gaping loophole in Android, the open source operating system supplied by Google. The hack, which was posted to this XDA-Developers forum, is a straight-forward process that allows Linux geeks to gain root access in about one minute. It involves using the …

    Security 5 Nov 2008, 21:23

  • Sun bundles servers in MySQL blankets

    Keeping sales warm in a cold world

    You're Sun Microsystems. You have a server lineup you brag about all the time. You have one of the best operating systems in the world in Solaris. And you shelled out $1bn in cold, hard cash to acquire the most popular open source database in the world, MySQL. And now you have figured out that it might be a good idea to sell …

    Servers 5 Nov 2008, 21:50

  • New cleaning products erase murder stains

    Vanish™ - the detergent for killers

    Thanks to a new breed of detergent, getting away with murder isn't the daunting task it once was. In the past, removing telltale murder stains was next to impossible. Even after multiple washes, blood-splattered clothing could still lead the police to your front door. But according to experts at the University of Valencia, …

    Odds and Sods 5 Nov 2008, 23:00

  • WoW accused of turning man's mind into 'living video game'

    Loses touch with reality

    World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment's lawsuit against MDY Industries is getting a little dose of bat-shit insane before the case rolls to trial. The legal sideshow comes courtesy of the famously litigious inmate Jonathan Lee Riches, who accuses Blizzard's popular online game - in a hand-written legal filing (PDF …

    Law 5 Nov 2008, 23:08

  • Microsoft's 'M' treads on US veterans' toes

    Vista all over again

    Microsoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's software for one of its fledgling products It's emerged Microsoft's M programming language shares the same name as a 30-year-old open language used by the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) along with tens of thousands of users in medicine and …

    Developer 5 Nov 2008, 23:40

  • Obama-themed malware mauls world+dog

    Short turnaround, high volume

    Malware purveyors have wasted no time capitalizing on Barack Obama's landslide victory in the US presidential race. Within 12 hours of his acceptance speech Tuesday night, net users were being treated to scams involving Google AdWords and prodigious volumes of spam. The spam comes masked as dispatches from legitimate news …

    Security 5 Nov 2008, 23:46