Imagine that it is the year 2014. You have just gotten home from a long day of work when you get a knock at the front door. "Mr. Smith?" a youngish, neatly dressed man with a clipboard and plastic, government issued identification badge asks. "I’m from the CDC. According to your [...]
Usually, when installing a new operating system the hope is that itâ??s as up-to-date as possible. After installation thereâ??s bound to be a few updates required, but no more than a few megabytes. Damn Vulnerable Linux is different, itâ??s shipped in as vulnerable a state as possible.
The idea behind DVL is to offer an operating [...]
If you have a soft spot in your heart for Windows 95 and own an Android smartphone, today is your lucky day. Two emulators have been released that will allow you to port the 15-year-old operating system to your phone.
One of the projects was developed on a BOSCH emulator and is said to be â??very [...]
"Hackers." It’s been 25 years since the book came out, and my, how things have changed. Even the meaning of the word hackers has evolved.
I remember when the book was written. A hacker was a computer geek, someone who stayed up all night writing code, building machines, sharing information, helping people out with problems with [...]
In an effort to enlist more help finding bugs in its most popular software, such as Firefox, Thunderbird and Firefox Mobile, Mozilla is jacking up the bounty it pays to researchers who report security flaws to $3,000.
The new price tag is a major increase over the payment of $500 with which the Mozilla Foundation launched [...]
The Department of Health is ending the £500m deal between Microsoft and the health service in England. A Department of Health (DoH) spokesperson confirmed that it will not renew its contract with the software firm for 900,000 licences for Microsoft’s PC software, which was due for renewal this year.
"The Department of Health has already invested [...]
Many Android fans are lining up to get Motorolaâ??s latest phone, the Droid X, which hit retail shelves Thursday morning. But the phone has raised the hackles of some Android geeks.
Motorola has reportedly made it difficult for hackers to mod the Droid X by using a bootloader and chip combination that could potentially brick the [...]
After a presentation saying the iPhone 4’s reception problems have been "blown way out of proportion," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Friday that all owners will receive free cases to fix the issue.
People who already paid for a case, which reduces interference, will get a refund, Jobs said. "We’re not perfect; phones aren’t perfect," Jobs [...]
Are antenna grip problems universal among smartphones? Even if they are, handset makers RIM, Nokia, and HTC are not happy with Apple for insinuating that the iPhone 4 isn’t alone in suffering from signal loss when gripped in a certain way.
During a press conference on Friday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called media coverage of the [...]
Apple’s news conference last week on the iPhone 4 antenna and reception fiasco gets an A- grade, but its overall response rates just a C, according to a crisis communications expert.
"For the test, I’d give Apple a B+ or A-, but for the entire semester, they get just a C," said Patrick Kerley, senior [...]
Spyrus announced it has received a U.S. patent and "Ctrix Ready" certification for a Windows Embedded Standard 2009-based security device it released earlier this year. The Secure Pocket Drive lets users access their data and browse the Internet safely via computers that would otherwise be untrustworthy, the company says.
Spyrus has marketed a variety of USB [...]
It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? Well, in some respects, it hasn’t — in fact, it’s only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off — but when you consider that this product will be replacing Windows Mobile 6.5, that puts things in proper perspective. [...]
Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.
Dubbed OpenStack, the new Apache-licensed project will feature several cloud infrastructure components, including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud [...]
Three years ago the President proposed the toughest crack down on illegal file sharing so far. Three strikes, no internet for you! But even with the legislation approved for nearly a year, not a single warning has been sent out. Now, lawmakers are beginning to doubt if the law will really be effective. Oh, and [...]
LG is making a huge bet on 3D laptops over the next year, predicting that sales of these new mobile computers will be boosted by 30 per cent in 2011. LG is one of the first brands to market with 3D notebooks, alongside other manufacturers such as Asus, Acer and Toshiba.
The company forecasts that global [...]
Oracle consultants implementing a £13.2m University of Glasgow student IT project have been asked to leave campus, replaced with a team of unnamed "bespoke" external experts.
A university spokesperson told The Reg that the university decided its needs would best be served by continuing its long-running Student Lifecycle Project with the external experts. Oracle Consulting Services [...]
There may well have been an increase in Mac sales over the past few years, but thereâ??s no denying the fact that Microsoft still has an undisputed dominance over the computer industry. A lot has been written about Microsoft over the years, but we may not know it all.
An interesting article, by Amy-Mae Elliott over [...]
Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as a "cyber threat analyst" at the U.S. Navy’s Network Warfare Command. Within less than a month, she amassed nearly 300 social-network connections among security specialists, military personnel and staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
A [...]