Month: November 2007

Daniel J. Bernstein has stated he is releasing his future and previous work under the public domain. You can watch the video of his announcement here.

A New Zealand teenager was arrested and then freed of charges today for allegedly being the Leader of a Bot/Spybot network. The New Zealand E-crime unit arrested the teenager on suspicion of stealing over 9.7 Million Pounds from bank accounts around the world and breaking into an estimated 1.3 Million computers. The full quote from the Guardian..

The many governments around the world are facing a growing concern as the internet gains more popularity and becomes more accessible. You need to provide information or access to services or devices to many different locations across your country or the world, and the only way to do this is through private networks and the internet.

There is an interesting article posted on downloadsquad.com titled "Google removes thousands of malware sites". Google has purged its index of suspected sites that propagate malware to anyone that unsuspectingly visits one of the sites in question.

Those pesky little compatible stickers on all of the machines at work and your laptop can finally be removed. Coming to a install Linux Distribution PC near you, Vista Incapable stickers!

I am definitely going to to print these out and paste them all over the PC’s I own and even the ones I don’t 😀

The popular site Digg is know all over the globe, a site that allows user submissions of articles on the web. Once "Dugg" other users can vote for the articles they like, as the amount of votes rise the articles are put onto the front page of digg. Lots of sites have followed took this idea and based the their site on specific content as well as media.
Google is now providing the same type of idea, allow you to add, move or remove search results.

As the title states, a Senior Security Consultant by the name of Nick Breese is using a PS3 to crack MD5 hashes. Aside from this article incorrectly stating that the security expert is stealing passwords, as of now he has only shown how fast the machines can process MD5 hashes. This is just a small glimpse of what the software and hardware can do, the article compares how many cycles can be completed using Vector Computing:

An article written by Richard Koman from newsfactor.com talks about the performance increases that everyone will see once SP3 for Windows XP is released. The company Devil Mountain Software, has recently done tests on Windows Vista in regards to the up-coming release of SP1. The testing concluded:

“The hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized,” the testers reported. “Vista + SP1 is no faster” than out-of-the-box Vista, they said.

Theres a feature on Lifehacker about a free piece of software called DriveImage XML, that provides backups and images of your Windows Based Hard Drive. The software has four different functions that you can use to backup/image your hard drive: