China Cyberattacks: Pervasive Threat Patch Tuesday Will Tie MS Record Cybersecurity Appears Hot for 2010 EPIC Objects To Google-NSA Ties Torrent Traps Used To Harvest Logins For Good Passwords, Think Sentence Google's accusation that e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem few firms will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. After a light start to the year, Microsoft is getting ready to dump a heavy load on the shoulders of IT administrators. On Patch Tuesday next week, Microsoft will release 13 patches. Tech-security companies are poised to become Wall Street darlings this year, thanks in part to Google's tiff with China, which reinforced an already positive outlook for major security vendors. Search giant Google has tapped the National Security Administration to help find those responsible for a recent cyberattack. But Electronic Privacy Info Center advocates are not happy about the deal. Twitter has pushed out a password reset to accounts following suspicious users after finding that phishers were attempting to steal usernames and passwords using fake BitTorrent sites. Need a secure password? Think up a relatively long sentence. Then take the first letters of the individual words -- and you've got an instant password that even clever hackers will be hard pressed to crack FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
Nvidia Auto-Switches Notebook GPU To Save Battery Life Nvidia has taken the wraps off a notebook technology that chooses the best graphics processor for any given application and automatically routes the workload to Nvidia or Intel processors.
Microsoft Says Battery Woes Not Caused By Windows 7 Battery problems on Windows 7 machines are not caused by the operating system. That's the position of Stephen Sinofsky, head of the Windows division, in a long posting on the Windows engineering blog.
IBM's New POWER7 Servers Save Energy with Big Loads IBM has unveiled high-capacity servers that are the first to be based on its new, multi-core POWER7 chip. It said the new line is designed "to manage the most demanding emerging applications."
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Intel Launches Quad-Core Itanium 9300 Series Processor After two unexpected delays, Intel has launched the Itanium 9300 series, a 64-bit, quad-core processor code-named Tukwila that is expected to double the performance of its predecessor.
Google May Add Facebook, Twitter Links to Gmail Google will reportedly roll more social-networking features into Gmail, the fastest-growing e-mail service. The new features could save users the trouble of switching to Facebook or Twitter.
IBM's New POWER7 Servers Save Energy with Big Loads IBM has unveiled high-capacity servers that are the first to be based on its new, multi-core POWER7 chip. It said the new line is designed "to manage the most demanding emerging applications."