by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals
The AV-TEST Institute has published the first results of its testing of Windows 8 virus scanners. Throughout January and February 2013, the Germany-based virus lab tested nine antivirus programs for corporate networks and 26 for home users. The institute based its...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals
The Cutwail botnet, which has already been spreading the banking trojan known as Zeus, is now also trying to pass around a new Android trojan called Stels. Stels infects Android devices by pretending to be an update for Adobe Flash Player. In case potential victims...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the there-should-be-blood dept. Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.’s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it’s totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the coming-soon dept. Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
Early last year, I started renting a desk at Studiomates while working remotely for Adobe. With the majority of mates either running their own companies or freelancing, I felt the itch to follow suit. This feeling has been with me ever since I first started working...
