Malware attack on search engines, Test your ISP, Graphics gets into more and T-rays Vs X-rays
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Malware attacks search terms on search engines
Today, malware authors organized and executed perhaps one of the largest online manipulation attacks that resulted in bogus and malicious links flooding the top results of major search engines. While the term flooding may sound exaggerated, the fact that malware writers were able to pull of a attack like this is a serious concern for any netizen. By means of links in comments, blogs and deliberately forging innumerable web pages to contain links with keywords, the hackers were able to get there results ranked high on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search.
While search engines reacted by deleting the malicious entries from their indexes, the problem is far from completely solved.
Software to test if your ISP tampers with your net connection
Last month Comcast, the ISP, was involved in a major ruckus concerning tampering with user's 'unlimited' internet connections to stall P2P traffic. The Associated Press confirmed in an independent nation wide study (which Comcast denied ofcourse) that the ISP was using protocol analysis to single out and kill traffic associated with file sharing programs such as eDonkey, Gnutella and BitTorrent.
Now users can use the software available as part of Electronic Frontier Foundations "Test Your ISP" program to detect if their internet traffic is being tampered by your ISP. The software will use a number of data analysis tools to help and educate users on getting the most of their network connections.
Graphics has many many applications beyond games and animations
Graphics chips have been mostly always been about games, mind boggling animations and the like. Two advantages set them apart from the desktop processors - large number of cores and the design to crunch computationally repetitive tasks. Researchers are exploiting these features to use Graphics chipsets for designing supercomputing models, flow design, financial modeling and cancer detection. More of a reason to see why AMD is so gung-ho about their investment in graphics chip sets.
T-Rays rule over X-rays
Terra hertz rays based portable scanners may naught all your baggage-detection-at-airport woes with their ability to detect more materials than standard X-ray based devices. The research was a result of collaboration between American, Turkish and Japanese teams and may revolutionize the applications of cancer detection and security as we know them.
SSD gain ground at Micron while Fujitsu gets into power saving mode
Finally, SSD (Solid State Drives) gains more ground with Micron Technology announcing their ambition to get SSD based drives out by mid next year. Also, Fujitsu announced its power efficient 2.5 inch, SATA mobile hard drive. The move to SSD does not at least for now harm magnetic drives. The cost per gigabyte for magnetic drives is about 0.2$ to 0.3$ as compared to the 7$ to 10$ of SSD drives.
Today, malware authors organized and executed perhaps one of the largest online manipulation attacks that resulted in bogus and malicious links flooding the top results of major search engines. While the term flooding may sound exaggerated, the fact that malware writers were able to pull of a attack like this is a serious concern for any netizen. By means of links in comments, blogs and deliberately forging innumerable web pages to contain links with keywords, the hackers were able to get there results ranked high on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search.
While search engines reacted by deleting the malicious entries from their indexes, the problem is far from completely solved.
Software to test if your ISP tampers with your net connection
Last month Comcast, the ISP, was involved in a major ruckus concerning tampering with user's 'unlimited' internet connections to stall P2P traffic. The Associated Press confirmed in an independent nation wide study (which Comcast denied ofcourse) that the ISP was using protocol analysis to single out and kill traffic associated with file sharing programs such as eDonkey, Gnutella and BitTorrent.
Now users can use the software available as part of Electronic Frontier Foundations "Test Your ISP" program to detect if their internet traffic is being tampered by your ISP. The software will use a number of data analysis tools to help and educate users on getting the most of their network connections.
Graphics has many many applications beyond games and animations
Graphics chips have been mostly always been about games, mind boggling animations and the like. Two advantages set them apart from the desktop processors - large number of cores and the design to crunch computationally repetitive tasks. Researchers are exploiting these features to use Graphics chipsets for designing supercomputing models, flow design, financial modeling and cancer detection. More of a reason to see why AMD is so gung-ho about their investment in graphics chip sets.
T-Rays rule over X-rays
Terra hertz rays based portable scanners may naught all your baggage-detection-at-airport woes with their ability to detect more materials than standard X-ray based devices. The research was a result of collaboration between American, Turkish and Japanese teams and may revolutionize the applications of cancer detection and security as we know them.
SSD gain ground at Micron while Fujitsu gets into power saving mode
Finally, SSD (Solid State Drives) gains more ground with Micron Technology announcing their ambition to get SSD based drives out by mid next year. Also, Fujitsu announced its power efficient 2.5 inch, SATA mobile hard drive. The move to SSD does not at least for now harm magnetic drives. The cost per gigabyte for magnetic drives is about 0.2$ to 0.3$ as compared to the 7$ to 10$ of SSD drives.
