Hollywood loves data center cameos. In many feature films, a guy sneaks into the server room and place a diabolical gadget next to a server. Usually, he grabs a random patch cable, connects it directly into his laptop and fires off a piece of malware. Most of the time, these scenes build tension. But for these five movies, they just look comical. Here are five favorite misrepresentations of Paranoia(2013)
The demand for custom servers is growing as buying trends change, with more companies designing servers in-house instead of buying from well-established vendors such as Hewlett-Packard or Dell. Server market revenue in the fourth quarter last year was $14.2 billion, The group of white-box server makers includes Quanta and Inventec, which make servers for companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, which
China is bolstering its efforts on cybersecurity with a new high-level committee that aims to turn the nation into an “Internet power,” the country’s official state media said last week. Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading the new government body, which first met on Thursday. Xi was quoted as stating that cybersecurity and information technology had become a matter of national security. “Without cybersecurity there is no national security, without information technology there is no modernization,” Xi added. Increasingly, China has found itself embroiled in cybersecurity issues. Over the years, the nation has
Arrested According to its researchers, the now largely defunct Tilon began life in October 2011, probably as a low-key way of making some money from the bank Trojan market without the need to offer the service and support on offer with purchases of the more famous SpyEye.
As the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web approaches, 87 percent of U.S. adults use the Internet, according to a Pew Research Center That’s a significant change compared to the 42 percent of U.S. adults who had never heard of the Internet in 1995—six years after March 12 marks 25 years since Berners-Lee made a proposal for an information system that turned into
Businesses considering accepting Bitcoins or other forms of cryptocurrency should be prepared to battle a rising number of malware aimed at emptying digital wallets. That’s the takeaway from a new study by SecureWorks, computer maker Dell’s security unit. Researchers found that the number of malware targeted at stealing cryptocurrency from Windows PCs increased along with the rise in value of Bitcoin since the beginning of 2013. As of January of this year, SecureWorks had identified on the Internet 100 unique families of malware capable of stealing wallet files or digital currency from users’ exchange accounts. The increase in the number of cryptocurrency-stealing malware made it “one of the fastest-growing categories of malware,” the study said.
A rural Alabama town and a suburban area of Florida may be on the cutting edge of a historic shift away from traditional circuit-switched phone service, if AT&T wins approval to run trials in those areas. The carrier plans to test a transition from its circuit-switched TDM (time-division multiplexing) phone network to wireless and Internet Protocol services in Carbon Hill, Alabama, and West Delray Beach, Florida. It will need FCC approval to begin the trials. AT&T and other incumbent wireline carriers are still required to provide traditional TDM phone service even though many U.S. residents no longer use it. They want to move to alternative services over the IP-based wired and wireless networks they are building now and eliminate the cost of maintaining the old networks. AT&T wants to complete its transition by 2020.
Low operating costs combined with a differentiated operating system and close communication with users will help Jolla survive in the cutthroat smartphone market, according to CEO The last two weeks have been busy for Finnish company Jolla, which last week announced that it had shipped a commercial version of its Sailfish OS and then headed for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Being a small company trying to compete with giants like Apple and Samsung has both its ups and downs, according to Pienimäki. One advantage is that low operating costs mean it doesn’t have to sell many phones to survive.
Intel is expecting its next Atom tablet chip, code-named Cherry Trail, to be in devices by the end of this year, the company said this week. A detailed update on Cherry Trail may be provided around the middle of this year, likely around the Computex trade show time frame, said Julie Coppernoll, marketing director in Intel’s mobile and communications group. Cherry Trail will go into tablets and low-end PCs, and succeed the current chip code-named Bay Trail, which was announced last year and is being used largely in tablets, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. The Cherry Trail chip, which will be made using the 14-nanometer process, will be even faster and more power-efficient than Bay Trail, which is made using the 22-nm process. Users can expect better battery life and performance in tablets with Cherry Trail compared to the current Bay Trail chips. The new 14-nm manufacturing process will allow Intel to make denser chips that are more power-efficient.
A new variant of the Gameover malware that steals online banking credentials comes with a kernel-level rootkit that makes it significantly harder to remove, according to security researchers from Sophos. Gameover is a computer Trojan based on the infamous Zeus banking malware whose source code was leaked on the Internet in 2011. Gameover stands apart from other Zeus-based Trojan programs because it uses peer-to-peer technology for command and control instead of traditional servers, making it more resilient to takedown attempts. At the beginning of February, researchers from security firm Malcovery Security, reported that a new variant of Gameover
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange and its owner Mark Karpeles, seeking damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the return of bitcoins to users whose accounts were frozen on the site. The lawsuit lays out a number of claims against Mt. Gox, chief among them that the exchange did not keep users’ bitcoins securely stored or adequately detect a theft of those coins. When the online exchange figured out what was going on, it clouded the truth by telling customers there was a computer glitch, the lawsuit claims. The situation is akin to a bank being robbed and then closing up shop and simply saying “sorry,” said Jay Edelson, managing partner at Edelson PC and the plaintiffs’ attorney.
Razer is giving PC gamers another way to sync save files across devices, for all those times when the game won't do it automatically. Saved game syncing is a new “beta” feature in Setting it up is simple enough. Once you've installed Game Booster and created a Razer login, the software scans for any games on your PC. I have about 80 games on my desktop, and Game Booster found them all in less than a minute. (The fact that I'm using
Andrew Hoog, the CEO and co-founder of mobile security firm Perhaps that’s why at this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco, there was a lot of interest among attendees in tools you can use to secure mobile devices. That includes tools like viaForensics’s Via Protect, a new app that detects and analyzes where the data from your mobile phone is being transmitted. The free app runs on iOS and Android. In this video report on mobile security offerings, we’ll also look at
Our intrepid team of reporters spent the week in Barcelona at the world's biggest mobile trade show, looking at a slew of mobile devices and services. But what topics were on everyone's mind at Mobile World Congress 2014?
The appeals court went by a strict interpretation of the statute under which the driver was charged
Hulu has sold its Japanese business to broadcaster Nippon Television Network (Nippon TV) and will focus on its U.S. operations. The deal is expected to be finalized in spring pending regulatory conditions, the two companies said. The move marks Hulu’s retreat from overseas operations and a refocus on its U.S. business. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hulu said it had reached the point where its best path forward in Japan was to sell the company and that Nippon TV was a logical partner. Hulu in Japan launched in September 2011 as its first overseas expansion. The service streams TV shows, films and other content for about 9.60 per month.
The bidding has stopped in a US$1.56 billion auction of wireless spectrum licenses across the U.S., and satellite operator Dish Network appears to be the winner. Dish pledged in advance to pay the $1.56 billion reserve price for the so-called H Block, and in the end the auction hit exactly that level. The participants were anonymous, but the final price and the fact that one bidder dominated the proceedings from the beginning show that Dish was the winner, analyst Tim Farrar of TMF Associates said. The auction rules call for the FCC to release the names of the winner or winners shortly after bidding closes. The H Block is small by the standards of today’s high-powered LTE networks in the U.S., consisting of just 5MHz for sending data downstream to mobile devices and 5MHz for users to send their own content and requests up to the network. Most service providers like to have at least twice that. However, the auctioned licenses are intended to reach effectively the entire U.S. population.
