Nastiest Malware 2023
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[b]The breach exposed 20,000 emergency room patients' medical information.[/b] The [url=http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_25398083/4-1m-settlement-possible-stanford-medical-information-breach]San Jose Mercury News[/url] reports that Stanford Hospital & Clinics and former contractor Multi-Specialty Collection Services (MSCS) will likely pay $4.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over a 2010 data breach that exposed approximately 20,000 emergency room patients' medical information. [url=http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/stanford-hospital-contractor-to-pay-4.1-million-for-2010-data-breach.html]Full Article[/url]
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Intel is placing some bets that the [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/lenovo-erazer-x700-gaming-desktop-pc-review#comments]desktop PC[/url] isn't dead yet by announcing plans to release new processors made for those products; they include the company's first Core i7 chip that will have eight cores and 16 threads. [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/9214iF6EDA66ED1A32918.jpg[/img] [i]Intel's upcoming "Devil's Canyon" processor.[/i] [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/intel-announces-its-first-i7-8-core-extreme-edition-processor]Full Article[/url]
[b]The malware problem on Mac OS X is nothing like as bad as it is on Windows.[/b] [b] [/b] There are something like 200,000 new Windows malware variants being discovered each day. Malicious code activity in the Mac world is far less frenetic, but the fact is, malware does exist that can infect our iMacs or MacBooks. And if your Apple computer is unlucky enough to fall victim you’re not going to feel any better than your PC-owning friends who are struggling to remove a backdoor Trojan or a pernicious browser toolbar from their copy of Windows. [img]http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/apple-ii-170.jpg[/img] Also, it’s worth bearing in mind that Mac malware is not a new phenomenon. Malware for Apple devices actually predates the Macintosh *and* the PC, with the first example being the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner]Elk Cloner[/url] worm written by Rich Skrenta, and designed to infect Apple II devices way back in 1982. But th
Facebook Inc (FB) wants to change the way computer programmers program by making it easier and faster Computer programmers know that misplacing a decimal point could mean their entire program is broken, but Facebook Inc believes its new programming language will change that. The social network unveiled the language it calls “Hack” today, saying that it should speed up programming while also making it easier to catch errors in code. In a post today, [url=https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/]Facebook[/url] said its engineers developed the new programming language for HHVM and that it “interoperates seamlessly with PHP.” They also said it “reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming language.” [url=http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/03/facebook-hack-language/]Full Article[/url]
[img]http://www.howtogeek.com/geekers/up/sshot5327e5c88c685.jpg[/img] OneNote is a wonderful app for taking notes, maintaining lists, and more, but had to be purchased before adding it to your favorite computer, and was not available for Mac. But no longer! As of yesterday, Microsoft has made OneNote free for all Windows 7 and 8.x systems plus offered up a new version just for Mac OSX systems! The Windows installer is a ‘dropper’ file approximately 1 MB in size and will download the needed files to install OneNote on your computer. The file for the Mac version of OneNote is 235 MB in size. [url=http://www.onenote.com/Download]Download Microsoft OneNote 2013 for Windows 7 and 8.x[/url] [OneNote.com] [url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id784801555?mt=12]Download Microsoft OneNote 2013 for Mac OSX[/url] [Mac App Store - iTunes] You can read through the announcement to see the complete list of details and features for the release fro
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[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4774iC13FA7B5AE27E4AC.jpg[/img] [i]Windows Store now has 100,000 apps.[/i] [i] [/i] Microsoft's Windows Store has hit the 100,000 apps mark in short order. "Thanks for a great \build! Just passed 100k apps in the Windows Store," [url=https://twitter.com/windevs/status/351812382114328576]Microsoft tweeted[/url] earlier today. That was fast. [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/windows-8-review/]Windows 8[/url] was launched only last October. How fast? Google took longer [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20020616-265.html]to reach that point[/url] -- roughly two years after the [url=http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/]Android Market[/url] formally opened for business. And it took about a year and a half [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20075812-248/apples-ipad-surpasses-100000-app-mark/]for the iPad to garner[/url] 100,000 [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/ipad/]iPad[/url]-specific apps. "The platform has been out for 453
Today my firefox got updated in beta channel to Latest Firefox 29.0 Beta The have changed the GUI to the dev channel Australis which were released as nightly builds. Well now Firefox looks more Chromish with rounded tabs, new customisation modes, new menu etc, ,still with seperate searchbox. Personally I prefer a fresher interface rather than, the rounded style we see in chrome and few others. Also if the inactive tabs had some kinda border around them.. it would have been good. I like the new menu, more like Win 8 style. They have introduced new sync, but havent tried yet. For full releasnotes : [url=http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0beta/releasenotes/]http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0beta/releasenotes/[/url] So firefox users out there.. How do you welcome the fox?
Since I upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 I've been unable to use my printer. I've downloaded the Universal Driver for 8.1 from Samsung but it won't install. The installation recognizes my printer but from there it stops and I get a message saying that it can't complete the installation . I've tried disabling my firewall but it doesn't make a difference. Does anyone have suggestions?
Sony unveiled its long-rumored virtual reality headset on Tuesday at the 2014 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony’s [url=http://www.worldwidestudios.net/en/Homepage]Worldwide Studios[/url], stood in front of a packed auditorium of game developers and said: “Virtual Reality is the next innovation from PlayStation that could shape the future of video games.” [url=http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525686/sony-joins-virtual-reality-race-with-new-headset-for-playstation/]Sony Joins Virtual Reality Race with New Headset for PlayStation | MIT Technology Review[/url]
The Spring Update for Windows 8.1 has been added back to Microsoft's Windows Update servers, and we have the links for x86, x64 and ARM . [b]These are official, and they are RTM.[/b] [b] [/b] You can of course opt to wait it out and let Windows Update work its magic [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-81-spring-update-reportedly-signed-off-to-rtm]sometime at the beginning of April[/url] when it'll be rolled out worldwide. Or take the plunge and install now, please do note that the updates require multiple reboots, and may also be pulled from the download locations at any time, [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-download-windows-81-update-1-right-now-with-a-simple-registry-tweak]like what happened last time[/url]. [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-81-spring-update-back-on-windows-update-links-inside]Full Article[/url]
[quote][b] Sam Sambri [/b]wrote:[/quote][quote]Nokia, BMW, IBM, Vodafone, and Royal Dutch Shell are just a few of the multinational companies caught up in tax battles with the Indian government. A few days ago we learned that an Indian Supreme Court ruled that [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/tag/nokia]Nokia[/url] must [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-nokia-deal-complicated-recent-571-million-ruling-indian-court]deposit $571 million into an escrow[/url] account before it can transfer a key manufacturing plant to [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/tag/microsoft]Microsoft[/url]. As you know, Microsoft is trying to finalize its deal to [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/tag/microsoft-buys-nokia]acquire Nokia’s phone[/url] unit for $7.3 billion. Microsoft and Nokia [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-reportedly-closing-nokia-deal-within-month]hope to finish the deal[/url] before the month ends. However, the Indian government is making things a little tricky for the two companies. [/q
Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 Update 1 to manufacturing, according to my sources, as well as [url=http://wzascok.livejournal.com/21306.html]the known Windows leaker WZor[/url]. [img]http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/026983/win81update1winsupersite-200x114.png?hash=BTV5LJL4Mw&upscale=1[/img] Windows 8.1 Update 1 -- which Microsoft also has referred to internally as "Windows 8.1 Spring Update" and "Windows 8.1 Update" -- is designed to [url=http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-1-update-1-leaked-build-suggest-microsoft-is-moving-in-the-right-direction-7000026003/]make Windows 8.1 more palatable and familiar to users who prefer to use mice[/url] as much, if not more, than touch. Word of [url=http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-surface-mini-not-until-spring-2014-7000021165/]Windows 8.1 Update 1's existence and feature set[/url] began leaking months ago. [url=http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-forges-ahead-toward-windows-8-1-update-1-7000024928/]Pre-RTM builds of the update[/url] have b
[quote][b]Todd Bishop[/b] wrote:[/quote][quote][img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/9198i25CA5EB128877F70.jpg[/img][/quote][quote]2013 Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport[/quote][quote] [/quote][quote]The 2013 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, has been given to Microsoft Research’s Leslie Lamport, whose behind-the-scenes work brought new levels of reliability and consistency to the distributed computing systems that power many of today’s most popular apps and services.[/quote] Read [url=http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-researcher-leslie-lamport-wins-turing-award-nobel-prize-computing/]here[/url]. And much more [url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/lamport-031814.aspx]here[/url]: [quote]Leslie Lamport first began dabbling in computers while he was still in high school. Nothing too unusual about that—until you consider that this was in the mid-1950s. Lamport was attending the Bronx High Schoo
In the wake of one data breach after another, millions of Americans each year are offered credit monitoring services that promise to shield them from identity thieves. Although these services can help true victims step out from beneath the shadow of ID theft, the sad truth is that most services offer little in the way of real preventative protection against the fastest-growing crime in America. Having purchased credit monitoring/protection services for the past 24 months — and having been the target of multiple identity theft attempts — I feel somewhat qualified to share my experience with readers. The biggest takeaway for me has been that although these services may alert you when someone opens or attempts to open a new line of credit in your name, most will do little — if anything — to block that activity. My take: If you’re being offered free monitoring, it [url=http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/experian-lapse-allowed-id-theft-service-to-access-200-million-consumer-records/]probab
Microsoft has a lot on its plate in terms of upcoming software releases. In addition to the rumors that it plans to launch [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/report-windows-81-update-1-to-be-released-april-8th-msdn-gets-it-april-2nd]Windows 8.1 Update 1 on April 8th[/url], the company has announced this week that SQL Server 2014 has reached the RTM stage and will become generally available on April 1st. In [url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/18/sql-server-2014-released-to-manufacturers-will-be-generally-available-april-1.aspx]a blog post[/url], Quentin Clark, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of its Data Platform Group, said that the release of SQL Server 2014 is significant in at least a couple of ways for its data management product family. One is that it supports in-memory online transaction processing, which Clark claims can boost database performance by up to 30 times compared to older versions. These improvements were created under
So, browser plugins of old have to die, that is the stance of Google and to a lesser extent Mozilla. The web is moving towards a plugin-less reality, and while companies that make those decisions are not seeing eye to eye when that will happen and how to push plugin developers into the right direction, it is clear that NNAPI plugins will be a thing of the past in the next couple of years. When you look at the top list of plugins used by Internet users, you find Adobe Flash at the very top as it is still used by many web games, media sites and applications throughout the web.But there are others that have millions upon millions of users, and the [url=https://unity3d.com/unity]Unity Plugin[/url] is one of them. The plugin for the Unity game development system provides gamers with access to games created on the platform. It is not only used on the Internet by various game studios that publish web games on gaming service sites such as Kongregate, but also by desktop game de
