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Nearly 33% of websites are infected with downloadable malware, after infection rates almost doubled in the past year, according to research from the Sans Institute. Users\' confidence in online security is waning, leading small and medium sized companies to lose business, it said. The security training organisation last week published its annual list of the top 20 cyber security threats. Click read more for further information.
Wired\'s Bruce Schneier is reporting that one of the four recent government approved standard methods for creating random numbers has a flaw which is so blatant, that the two cryptographers who found it claim \"it can only be described as a backdoor.\" Click read more for further information.
New Zealand teenager accused of controlling botnet hacking of over 1 million computers and nearly $13 million in damages. An 18-year-old New Zealand youth is under suspicion of infecting over 1.3 million computers worldwide with a worm in order to create a botnet which he then used to carry out DDoS attacks, among other things, without the knowledge of unsuspecting PC users. Click read more for further information.
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.