20th June 2009 Archive

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Tiny-traffic DoS attack spotlights Apache flaw

Denial of Service without the flood

Security guru Robert "RSnake" Hansen has released a novel DoS attack tool that points to a significant flaw in Apache and other webservers. Hansen calls his creation "Slowloris - the low bandwidth yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client." Unlike an old school Denial of Service attack, which ties up a website by bombarding the …

Security 20 Jun 2009, 00:15
Branson breaks ground on US rocketplane spaceport

WhiteKnightTwo makes emergency landing

Construction has begun on Richard Branson's multi-million-dollar rocketplane spaceport in the remote high-desert of southern New Mexico. The Brit billionaire along with local dignitaries held a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday, featuring a launch of model rockets, historic reenactors dressed as Spanish colonials*, and a road …

Science 20 Jun 2009, 03:45
Intel goes to ultraviolet extremes

Research@Intel The EUV prototype that (nearly) blows up

A long-awaited breakthrough in chip-making technology is inching closer towards commercial reality. But progress is slow and remains uncertain. At Thursday's Research@Intel event in Mountain View, California, The Reg and other press folk sat down with Mike Mayberry, Intel's VP of technology and manufacturing, to discuss the …

Hardware 20 Jun 2009, 04:06
Reg Review Round-up

Catch up on our extensive review coverage

In case you missed 'em, this week's reviews from Register Hardware. iPhone App Tube Deluxe 3.1 iPhone download in 'ruddy useful' shock Toshiba Regza 37AV615DB Big screen, small price Yamaha TSX-130 iPod dock Quality player? BlockMaster SafeStick hardware-encrypted USB drive Tough enough? Acer Tempo X960 …

Hardware 20 Jun 2009, 06:02
Galactica 1.3

iPhone App Review Not a Cylon in sight

Third-party iPhone applications are generally cheap, but we really expected a rather better price-to-play time than we got from Galactica. Like Tube Deluxe it only costs 59p, but we can't see many downloaders getting anywhere near a minute's worth of pleasure from each penny they spend. You might get five minutes' mild …

Applications 20 Jun 2009, 07:02
MPs turn to Black Blob to preserve their dignity

Comment Not an archaic official - just modern censorship

When the House of Commons finally published details of MP expenses online, the public may have been left wondering how much more money has been wasted on a fruitless effort to censor the details held in individual claims. The reason that it has taken so long to publish these is the number of documents involved – over a million …

Government 20 Jun 2009, 08:02
Nokia Siemens grabs Nortel's wireless biz

Everything must go in Nortel fire sale

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is buying the wireless business of Nortel, the bankrupt Canadian network equipment maker, for $650m. It picks up a major CDMA franchise - Nortel supplies three of the world's five biggest CDMA mobile network operators - and "at least 2,500 employees... [This] represents a significant portion of the …

Mobile 20 Jun 2009, 10:26