Articles Posted on 11 January 2009
The constant stream of Ultraseek redirects to malware
News Security
I’ve been tracking a steadily increasing amount of redirects, often from legitimate .gov, .edu or major corporations. The cause of these redirects are, in many cases, a result of configurations of Ultraseek/Autonomy/Verity...
Yandex used in spam redirects
News Security
We’re seeing a fair number of pages on Narod (a service by that provides free web hosting, from Yandex, the Russian search engine).These are used for both redirects to malware, as well as redirects in spam.Example spam that...
£688.85 Novatech X80R Ltd Gaming Edition Laptop - Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 4GB, 250GB, Geforce 8800GTX
News Hardware
The X80r sports a beautiful sleek 17" widescreen display with an incredible 1920 x 1200 resolution - the highest resolution available. The X80r also comes complete with the world's first mobile DirectX 10 graphics chip to...
£17.99 Transcend Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card - 16GB - Class 6
News Hardware
SDHC (SD High-Capacity) is the new generation of SD cards (Version 2.0) and this Transcend model is one of the fastest and cheapest of its category. Plus it comes with a lifetime waranty. Formatted in FAT32, SDHC cards reach a...
£4.69 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Crossfire Gaming USB 2.0 Flash / Key Drive
News Hardware
The new SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire USB Flash Drive is specially designed to make your console or PC gaming experience portable. Available in 512MB - 4GB, you can save your PC game data*, download portable casual games and more...
£8.99 Dane Elec 8GB Nacre - High Speed 173x Read USB 2.0
News Hardware
This super compact and very portable USB 8GB Flash drive can be used as a removable drive on your computer or laptop and with “Hot Swapping” and “Plug and Play” provides fast and easy use. Simply...
iTunes
News Consumer
It is a proprietary digital media player application, introduced by Apple Inc. on January 9, 2001, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The latest version, iTunes 8, was announced at Apple's September 2008 keynote Let's Rock. ...
Java
News Web
Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. Java is...
OpenOffice.org
News Software
It is commonly known simply as OpenOffice, is a free cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data...
MySpace
News Consumer
It is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly...
Nokia
News Business & Government
Nokia It is a Finnish multinational communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is focused on wireless and wired telecommunications, with 112,262 employees...
Logitech
News Consumer
It is the holding company for Logitech Group, a Chinese peripheral-device maker. Logitech makes peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, game controllers and webcams. Logitech also makes home and PC speakers,...
Network neutrality
News Hardware
Network neutrality (equivalently net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions...
Interoperability
News Hardware
It is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together. The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social,...
Intel
News Hardware
It is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded on July 18, 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in...
Optical storage
News Hardware
It is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light. A common modern technique used by...
