Single computer brought LAX to a halt
We heard of the problems that happened at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX over the weekend, yet we did not really know what the problem was or what caused it.
Well after all of those problems that affected over 17,000 air passengers it turns out that the problem was on a single desktop computer, [...]
Top Secret Computer Database Stolen
The UK security services have shot themselves in the foot once more, with a computer server that was used to store top secret phone records used in police investigations, was stolen from a private contractor.
The server and other computer equipment were stolen from the head office of Forensic Telecommunication Services Ltd of Sevenoaks in Kent. [...]
Does your IE browser keep crashing?
There could be several reasons for this to happen, many can be fixed as there are so many different things that this could be. However what if it was something else? Something maybe that you would be relying to say, protect your machine from attack in the first place.
Something like Norton!
Symantec have discovered that they [...]
Missing woman’s photo turns up on dating site
A photo of a Florida woman, who went missing over eighteen months ago, has turned up on two dating sites in the states. The sites, one of which is for senior citizens, and the other a gay dating site, both have a profile of Jennifer Kesse, who was 24 when she went missing.
This has angered [...]
Intelligent search, the end of the world!
There have been so many warnings mainly in the movies, but in books too, and yet we have taken no notice at all. Very soon Web 3.0 is going to be launched and everything that has gone before in all of those stories will begin to happen, or so some people think!
Web 3.0, intelligent search [...]
Is your machine a zombie?
A zombie machine is where a third party takes control of your computer. You would be totally unaware that your machine has been affected, and it acts as normal until it receives instructions. It may then be used for Spam, network attack or worse for you, log all of your keystrokes in an attempt to [...]
August 6, 2007Who gets to build the world’s fastest computer?
This is not going to be an ordinary PC, what we are talking about here is the world fastest supercomputer at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
The computer originally costed at around $200 million, but may cost over its five year life time another $400 million to [...]
Happy birthday to the computer virus
Believe it or not it is the birthday of the computer virus, and it is 25 years old, yes that’s right. And anothe surprise is the first computer to be infected by the virus was the Apple II; the virus went by the name of Elk Cloner and was spread by floppy disks. Obviously there [...]
August 2, 2007Dish TV on your computer
Dish TV have announced that they will be releasing a set top box for computers. Once connected the user will be able to switch between using the computer and watching live TV. The service will offer consumers a choice of watching up to 171 channels, plus there are other services too, like interactive TV and [...]