Chalk up one for the defenders: a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.
For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients’ networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began Read More
The iPhone, Oracle’s Sun buyout, and Windows 7 dominated the year’s tech news. Discover the key events that fell under the media radar
Think your wireless service is crummy? Just wait until next year when the spectrum drought really hits home. And maybe you’ve been telling your users that installing a graphics card in an office PC is a waste of money. If that’s the case, you’re missing a Read More
China’s state news channel has blamed hugely popular online games for problems including drug addiction, teen pregnancy and even murder this month as regulators crack down on allegedly harmful content in games.
China’s state news channel has blamed hugely popular online games for problems including drug addiction, teen pregnancy and even murder this month as regulators Read More
According to recently released research from the Pew Center, we’re just as optimistic about the web as we were ten years ago during the Internet’s first boom cycle.
At the end of 2009, most Americans in this Pew survey have a dismal view of the 2000s. Between the Iraq war, the 9/11 attacks, economic and political distress and the curse of reality television, the Read More
The year 2009 was pretty good to Microsoft, even as the weak economy ravaged sales. Microsoft actually did a few things right. For now, I present the list of 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 — in no order of importance. They’re all important. Microsoft:
1. Flawlessly launched Windows 7. There’s a metaphor somehow in Microsoft launching Windows 7 during the 40th anniversary year of the Read More