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Java bug could hit PC operating systems
The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety…
Future of operating systems: simplicity
Today's operating systems are conceptually upside-down. They developed the hard way, gradually struggling upwards from the machinery (processors, memory, disks and displays) toward the user. In the future, operating systems…
A History of Apple’s Operating Systems
Introduction Mac OS X is a unique operating system in that it represents a rather successful coming together of paradigms, ideologies, and technologies that have usually resisted each other in…
Users cling to old Microsoft operating systems
Microsoft can stop selling older operating systems, and it can even stop supporting them, but that doesn't mean that customers won't still use them. Even though Microsoft said this week…
Dell and Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems
Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems can provide higher performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications running on Dell PoweEdge Servers built on Intel Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T).…
History of Operating Systems
Historically operating systems have been tightly related to the computer architecture, it is good idea to study the history of operating systems from the architecture of the computers on which…
Windows XP
In his final review of Windows XP, Dave Cook checks out a veritable host of new features. A lot of time and effort has gone into making Windows XP Home…
Toshiba puts quantum crypto into practice
The system, which has run continuously since it was set in motion last week, relies on single photons to transmit an untappable key over standard optical fibers, the company said.…
New Internet domains in the works
The Internet may soon see two new top-level domains: .jobs and .mobi. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Monday that its board had voted unanimously to…
New hacking tool: chocolate
The survey was conducted by the organizers of Infosecurity Europe 2004, a security exhibition to be held in London next week. They offered 172 commuters at Liverpool Street Station a…
Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream?
But that's not true, and the reality is more complicated. You're screwed if you do nothing to protect yourself, but there are many things you can do to increase your…
Reports shows – only 12% of all E-Mail messages were legitimate during the month of November
Postini’s Email Stat Track Data Shows Spam and Viruses on the Rise in November 2004 Postini, the industry's leading provider of email security and management for the enterprise, today announced…
Alert: New Sober variant rapidly spreading
Antivirus vendors reported the discovery of a new Sober variant Friday. Dubbed or , the new worm variant was first detected in Western Europe and is rapidly spreading as users…
Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp
The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few…
PlayStation 3 chip on track
Sony and partners IBM and Toshiba said in a joint statement that IBM is ready to begin pilot production next year on the "Cell" processor jointly developed by the companies.…
Microsoft pays hackers $250,000 to turn in their friends
I love this move by Microsoft: put a $250,000 bounty on the authors of the Sobig virus, and let the free market handle the problem for you. Might as well…
What is a script kiddie, hacker or cracker?
This is a short compilation of terms and definitions referring to script kiddies, hackers and crackers. A script kiddie is a term related to a person who is normally not…
Hacker Psych 101
Who are hackers, and what makes them tick? Two experts in the field of cyber forensics and psychology have some answers to that question. One is Marc Rogers, a behavioral…
Over the Thanksgiving holiday Hackers defaced off SCO Web site
The SCO website appears to have been hacked over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. SCO's Web site was largely out of commission until Monday morning, a representative of the Lindon, Utah-based…