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Google’s Pacific submarine cable “Unity” nearly complete
-- 7.68 Terabits/s for growing Asian market-- $300 million cost (from consortium of six companies)-- 10,000 km length (Chikura in Japan to Los Angeles)-- Increases capacity across Pacific by 20 percent-- Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing technolog... »
20 undocumented holes in OS X?
Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst at Baltimore, Md.-based security firm ISE, has made news in the last two days saying that he found 20 perviously-unknown security vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X operating system. News stories seem to anticipate that h... »
Windows Virtual PC Everywhere
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/19/windows-virtual-pc-everywhere.aspx'; With our recent update to Windows Virtual PC that allows it to run on systems without hardware virtualization support – I have been flooded by a stream of people asking what hardware it will run on / if it will run on their system. The short answer is: If it can... »
Phishing increased 62 percent in ‘09
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor's finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks in the year. MarkMonitor is based in San Francisco.Other conclusions in MarkMonitor’s 2009 Bran... »
Faking a fake
We're all familiar with Rogue Antivirus products - but it seems script kiddies on numerous sites out there are starting to crank out their own phony security programs, many of which are confusingly based on the designs of - if you'll pardon the express... »
User Protection
User Protection is a phony security program, designed to infect PC after PC and rip people off. If User Protection has infected your PC, you should remove it immediately.PC's infected with User Protection usually experience the following:Constant pop-... »
Can spam get worse?
Or is it at the saturation point?The SANS Institute (acronym = SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) web site carried a blog piece that gives a good snapshot of the horrible ongoing plague of spam email that IT folks all over the globe must deal with. Th... »
Windows Virtual PC – no hardware virtualization update now available for download
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/windows-virtual-pc-no-hardware-virtualization-update-now-available-for-download.aspx'; The update to Windows Virtual PC to support running on systems without hardware virtualization is now available for download. You can grab it here: For 32-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=837f12aa-1d37-464e-ae59-20c9ecbebaf6 For 64-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70dd043-e262-43c0-a002-446567f1e2b4 You can also read the full KB article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977206 One thing to note: While Microsoft supports the use of... »
A malware booty call
We hear so much about stealth tactics, data theft and covert ops where malware is concerned these days that we often forget about the time when it was more about how many popup windows the attacker could throw onto the screen along with a couple of dan... »
Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v.aspx'; We have just announced that in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 we will be adding a new feature to Microsoft called “Dynamic Memory”. The goal of this feature is to allow for better utilization of memory by dynamically adding and removing memory from running virtual machines. I am really... »
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