Conficker self-updates, launches false infection alert
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Report: cyberwarriors probing US electrical grid
Security officials from both past and current US administrations have owned up …
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XP downgrades after Windows 7 ships? Business as usual
Microsoft has stated that customers will be able to downgrade all the way back …
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AMD details 2009 restructuring costs; may be more pain ahead
AMD has given more guidance on how it plans to cut costs in 2009. No new …
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ATI’s Radeon 4890 kicks NVIDIA where it hurts
Another month, another round of GPUs, and ATI's HD 4890 may preview more than …
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The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
If you've ever been curious about what Google uses for server hardware, how …
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Conficker.C appears on schedule, but only as a whisper
It's April 1—do you know where Conficker is? The worm's reactivation date has …
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Nehalem Xeon’s touchdown: could sweep current market
Nehalem-EP debuted this week, bringing with it a sea change in how we view …
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Romanian phisher stuck casting behind bars for four years
Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman is going to have plenty of time to decide which male …
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New method for detecting Conficker discovered, debuted
With Conficker.C slowly counting down towards its April 1 launch date, Team …
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Let’s hit that horsie one more time: NVIDIA+VIA =Twu Wuv?
Could VIA's recently announced plan to sell some 300 million new shares be …
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Western Digital goes solid state, acquires SiliconSystems
Western Digital acquired SSD technology company SiliconSystems Monday in a $65 …
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Chinese cyberespionage network runs across 103 nations
Researchers in Toronto have released a document that describes what may be the …
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Anand investigates SSD performance shenanigans
Anandtech has taken PC Perspective's original discovery of degraded SSD …
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NVIDIA countersues Intel—right on schedule
NVIDIA has responded to Intel's lawsuit from several weeks ago. While its …
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Report: IT not scrimping on security during recession
Even in the face of what some have dubbed the Great Recession, CEOs and CIOs …
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EU to US: WTO appeal justified, so fix your gambling laws
Betting on horseflesh and betting on online poker might seem to be identical …
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Gartner explores reality of x86 parallelism
Dual and quad cores are nice, but how long until we can really take advantage …
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Canadian .ca domain prepares united Conficker.C defense
April 1, 2009 is approaching and the Conficker.C worm is prepping to go live …
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Summing up Shanghai: AMD’s 45nm server CPU four months later
It's been a few months since AMD's Shanghai processors launched, so how are …
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BIOS-level rootkit attack scary, but hard to pull off
For the security-conscious, the idea that malware, viruses, and Trojans could …
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Mississippi makes red-light cameras illegal
Red-light cameras have generated a great deal of controversy over their …
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Netbook upsell models offer little to justify price
Netbooks have been on everyone's mind for months, but some of the more recent …
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Intel may delay new CPUs, offset Atom production to China
We've got a new brace of Intel rumors to ponder as the week kicks off, and it' …
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Researchers hunting for Conficker’s Patient Zero
Researchers working at the University of Michigan are studying Conficker's …
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Intel CPU-level exploit could be tempest in a teapot
On Thursday, Invisible Things Labs released details on a new, CPU-level …
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Save the children? ICANN opens debate on CyberSafety charter
The group behind the campaign to take porn off of port 80 is now lobbying …
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NVIDIA, Sony, ink deal to bring PhysX to the PS3
NVIDIA released the full PhysX SDK for all PS3 developers today, in a move …
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New version of DNS server Trojan Flush.M spotted in the pipe
Troublemaker Flush.M is back from early December with a new set of DNS …
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Traffic cameras billed as answer to Chicago’s budget deficit
Red-light cameras have been combined with short yellow lights to catch drivers …
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Botnet takedown offers peek at private data repository
Ever wondered what happens to your data (or someone else's) after it's stolen …
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AMD, Intel x86 patent fight likely to be long and messy
Intel has filed a letter with AMD alleging that the smaller company is in …
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Conficker.C primed for April Fool’s activation
Conficker has caused trouble for months since it appeared in late 2008, and a …
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Forget watermarks; new technique “fingerprints” paper
Professor Ed Felten and his team of researchers have been working on security …
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Week in hardware: Netbooks, SSDs, ARM, and Atom
New announcements on the SSD front and in storage products dominated the week …
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New VIA VX855 media processor: big claims, old tech
VIA launched a new mobile chipset for its ultra-mobile products today with …
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