Category: News
US, UK and friends have cyber-war party
From The Register: Business and government leaders from the US, UK and three other countries will spend much of this week simulating and defending against a large-scale cyber attack in an exercise designed to strengthen coordinated responses to what many perceive as a growing threat. The exercises are designed to sharpen and assess participants’ ability…
iPhone and Exchange
Interesting news from Apple (read: Steve Jobs): the iPhone now supports Microsoft Exchange. Pretty cool. Too bad I’m stuck in a 2-year contract. But it’s okay, as I’d rather wait for the nth generation of the iPhone that I know will have more features and will have been tried-and-tested. Let’s see how this pans out…
Current @Home-like projects
Here’s an article I found on the Discover Magazine website that talks about 14 currently on-going @Home-like projects. Remember SETI@Home? Apparently, it’s still going.
Comcast pays Americans to oppose net neutrality
“Comcast is now paying Americans to believe in deceptive ISPs.” This is just low…no wonder why the economy is falling, mistrust is more prevalent, and morale overall is down in the U.S. Just read Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas’s statement: “As is common practice in Washington, we did pay a few people to stand in line…
Microsoft virtual launch
You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here. You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.
Cold Boot encryption memory hack
I read an article wherein researchers from Princeton University cooled down memory to -58 degrees F which allowed them to examine the encrypted contents of the memory for as long as 10 minutes. Microsoft, however, says its unlikely. To be clear, encrypted data here is data that gets encrypted by apps like Vista’s BitLocker or…