by Joseph Forbes | Apr 1, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the making-enemies dept. The NYT is reporting that the Largest DDoS in history reached 300 Gbps. The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the well-be-does-have-sort-of-a-guilty-look dept. Sven Olaf Kamphius, self-described ‘Internet freedom fighter,’ is reportedly at the center of the investigation into this week’s alleged cyber-attack against Spamhaus, a group that fights...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the celebrate-often dept. Easter isn’t the only thing some people are celebrating today. Today is also World Backup Day. What steps have you taken to be able to resurrect your data, instead of having it go to eternal oblivion?
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the like-soapy-water-for-your-inner-tube dept. I’m a ‘prosumer’ website builder, have a few sites that are mainly hobbies, but I would like to know that they’re at least fairly robust. I’m thinking of the equivalent of a...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the say-goodnight dept. Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the hey-so-does-harvard dept. In a move that would do Bill Lumbergh (YouTube homage) proud, Microsoft has been pulling in about $25 million a year through its unusual practice of charging its vendors for occupying office space on its campus while working on...
