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 7, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
A third of all Windows users could still be running XP when Microsoft pulls patch plug in 53 weeks The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the jumping-ship dept. Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink. Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit, has confirmed with TNW that it will be...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 5, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Dell believes an ARM supercomputer will be applicable in specific use cases Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in...
