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The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source
In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone to Facebook to say that the attack started on Tuesday and as a ...
Diablo III Online-Only DRM Strategy Leaves Players’ Eyes Stinging, Throats Raw
The much anticipated Blizzard classic game Diablo III launched Wednesday to a great deal of fanfare and an equal helping of controversy. When all the servers (across the globe) green lit on 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, 15 May 2012 thousands of players who had pre-ordered the software rushed to log onto the servers and many found ...
Bernhard Schulzki from EMC and Satinder Sethi from Cisco Talk HANA at SAPphire 2012
Bernhard Schulzki, Vice President of EMC Solutions Group, and Satinder Sethi, VP of Service Access & Virtualization Technology at Cisco, spoke with Dave Vellante at SAPphire 2012 about the cloud and HANA infrastructure. (See the video at the end of the article for the full interview.) Schulzki says that the specific emphasis on solutions with ...
Nvidia Prepares Graphics Card Lineup for the Cloud Gaming Era
The cloud has penetrated everything, even gaming, and Nvidia wants to craft the sails that will lead the gaming world into those cloudy waters with their upcoming Kepler-based graphics chips—these graphics cards will include features designed to enable cloud-gaming across the Internet and facilitate lower-lag with shinier graphics for the next generation of consoles. Essentially, ...
Twitter UK Boasts 10 Million Active Users, Majority on Mobile Devices
Twitter has released some stats on their current impact in the UK and they’re quite impressive: approximately 10 million active users with 80% active on mobile phones. The company is traditionally very secretive about their stats and growth, which makes them very difficult to pin down; but we’ve seen this company rise up from a ...
Bitcoinica Suffers Staggering $87,000 Bitcoin Loss in Server Breach
At approximately 1:00pm GMT last Friday, the Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica suffered a server compromise that led to the theft of their bitcoin wallet and ended in the loss of ฿18,547 BTC—a value calculated at the current market rate of exceeding $87,000. After this happened, Bitcoinica was quick to reveal the information but few details on ...
Xbox Maintains Stealth Living-Room Cloud Entertainment Crown
As expected, the position of a gaming console attached to millions of household TVs is proving to be an excellent strategy for Microsoft in their stealth attack into the set-top-box market. All Things D has run a blog post about a report from Freewheel—an online video advertisement company—that shows the inkling that this marketing tactic ...
Leaked FBI Report Shows Concern Over Bitcoin’s Attractiveness to Criminals
The FBI is apparently wary of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin due to its applicability for criminals to use it to hide transactions from law enforcement—or, as they see it, use the currency for money laundering and scams. All of this was revealed in a leaked internal document outlining the Bureau’s concern about the virtual currency ...
The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS
The Pirate Bay is unhappy with hackers from Anonymous who have taken it upon themselves to punish Virgin Media for following the edicts of the UK High Court. Cells of the hacktivist collective have recently placed the ISP in their sights for a massive DDoS after the decision requested that ISPs censor TPB. Virgin Media ...
Symantec Mobile Leads the Pack in the Bring-Your-Own-Device Trend Security
As the enterprise sector begins to look deeper into the trend of allowing their workers to bring their own device to the workplace—as opposed to a proprietary model designed for the enterprise itself—a number of security risks begin to crop up. Uncontrolled hardware and software means that a bad guy or malware could gain access ...