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Large-capacity hard disks often used by government agencies were found to contain Trojan horse viruses, Investigation Bureau officials warned. 1,800 portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said. Click read more for further information.
Users waiting to download Windows XP Service Pack 3 will have to wait until the first half of 2008, when Microsoft will release the Windows XP Service Pack 3 download to the public.
The Windows XP Service Pack 3 download is expected to be in high demand, as the update to the popular Windows XP operating system adds almost 1,000 alterations and enhancements.
It may not be the most popular thing to consider, but high-end graphics cards contain a very powerful internal computing engine, called the GPU. This massively parallel device can attack a problem in parallel, rather than serial as most CPUs are required to process data. This means it can compute many hundreds of simultaneous calculations. This is actually how 3D graphics cards get their high-speed gaming abilities. Still, a new use has been found for this robust computing engine: Password Cracking.
An online malware measuring tool has unexpectedly rated U.K. PCs as having the lowest level of infection in Europe. Top of the infection list for active malware was France (28.2 percent), Mexico (23.1 percent), Brazil (18 percent), the U.S. (17.8 percent), and Argentina (17.4 percent).
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so. Unfortunately for Media Defender over 700mb of their own internal emails have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company.
A man who was spotted using his laptop in the street has been arrested on suspicion of illegally logging on to a wireless broadband connection. Two officers spotted the 39-year-old man sitting on a garden wall outside a home in Chiswick, West London UK. Click read more for further information.