Post from May 2008
If you want to calculate your company’s carbon emissions footprint then look no further because IBM has unveiled a new application called Carbon Tradeoff Modeler for calculating carbon footprint. This tool enables organizations to analyze and manage the climate impact of their supply chains.
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Global Secure Systems, an internet security firm has reported that spammers are exploiting the tragedies that struck Burma and China recently. They are sending phishing emails and Trojans disguised as news reports and donation requests to help people affected by the tragedies.
The Bank of New York Mellon has lost data on 4.5 million customers when one of the ten backup tapes went missing while transporting to a storage facility. The backup tape holding personal information of customers was not encrypted. It happened three months ago but was only revealed this week.
According to a China based consulting firm CCID, the commercial Linux market saw 22.6 percent increase in sales over the past year. As manufacturers broaden their distribution channels, Linux is expanding out of its traditional markets around major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
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Samsung has released a new 1 TB eco-friendly hard disk which provides 15 per cent power saving compared to other low-powered 1TB hard drives. With “green” being the in word these days, this hard drive is primarily intended to minimize power consumption.
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It has been reported by SophosLabs, a security firm, that scammers are now using LinkedIn for their activities in order to avoid corporate spam filters. Scammers have turned to social networking websites because corporate mail servers block such emails and mail coming through LinkedIn will be less susceptible to scam thus trapping unwary business workers.
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Nintendo Wii Fit game which works out players’ body mass index (BMI), and shows if you’re the right weight for your height has generated heat by calling a girl fat. The girl named Tabea from Lincolnshire UK told her parents she had to diet after the game said she was fat, when she isn’t. She [...]
Want to earn some cash while programming in C? Well, here is your chance! Nvidia has launched CUDA coding contest to test your C coding talent on CUDA. The CUDA Toolkit is a C language development environment for CUDA-enabled GPUs made by Nvidia.
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Well what do you do when you see some unknown website suspected of phishing? Simply close the browser. A similar step is taken by hosting provider as they “close” the website by taking it down. But what do you do when the site is legit? This is exactly what is happening these days i.e. phishers [...]
The Asprox botnet, which earlier ran amok by phishing users has got a new weapon; SQL injection. Specialises in sending out phishing spam, now it uses an SQL-injection attack tool to hack websites and add yet more hijacked PCs to its army.
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