RSA has announced that another wave of attacks on major banks is coming and rather than a DDoS style attack, this one is organized by a cyber-gang intent on pilfering money through a Trojan attack they have dubbed “Gozi Prinimalka”.
Category: Technology
New MIT discovery prints carbon nanotubes on paper to create chemical sensors
MIT chemists have printed carbon nanotubes on paper to create a sensor for detecting dangerous gases. The lines are printed on specially treated paper. When an electrical current is passed through the paper, the change in resistance indicates gas molecules that have bound to the printed nanotubes. The test sensor detected small traces of ammonia…
Mysterious bot generated 4% of all Wall Street traffic and 10% of allowable trades last week
Nanex, the top tracker of high frequency trading activity on Wall Street, reported today that a single mysterious computer program made up 4% of all quote traffic on the stock market last week. It also accounted for 10% of the allowed trading for the day. The program placed orders in batches of 200, then 400,…
RSA proposes ingenious security mechanism that would store passwords across multiple locations
The folks at RSA have proposed a new method of securing user passwords obtained from database hacks – break the password into separate pieces and store them at separate locations. If the database were compromised and the password stolen, all the hacker would have would be half of the password hash which would make it…
Huge Windows 8 cumulative update rolls out prior to SP1 – promises performance improvements
Microsoft is rolling out a cumulative update today ahead of an official service pack for Windows 8. The update includes power and performance improvements as well as some driver fixes and updates to some core Windows 8 applications. It is unusual for Microsoft to roll out cumulative patches (other than service packs) but with Windows…
YouPorn serves a staggering 100GB of data – per second! This is how they do it.
Porn sites are often technology leaders. They have to be. It is believed that porn is the most widely viewed content on the Internet. Just how much traffic do they serve? YouPorn, who serves free pornographic videos and is the second largest porn site on the Internet, hosts over 100TB of porn. At peak times,…
Mass Murder in World of Warcraft game – hackers take down entire cities [VIDEO]
Flying synchronized RC helicopters are quick and agile enough to throw a ball and then catch in a net
Swiss researchers demonstrated three robotic quadrocopters, flying in formation and tethered to a net, playing catch with a ball. The helicopters maneuver to catch balls that are tossed to them and catch them in the net. Once they catch the ball, they launch it back by flying outward and stretching the net tight.
Interesting look at retro (and pre-retro) calculators and calculating machines of yesteryear
The first known aid to calculations was the Abacus, used by Sumerians and Egyptians earlier than 2,000 BC (with the possible exception of the Antikythera mechanism). By 1642, the mechanical calculator was invented by Blaise Pascal. By 1902, we had a pushbutton calculator in the form of the Dalton Adding Machine. Here is a pictorial…








