This morning the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on Sovereign Wealth Funds--those state owned investment funds causing a political stir as of late. The panelists all agreed that sovereign wealth funds are a good thing for the U.S. economy. We need the money! The thought that foreign [...]
The Sidney Morning Herald reveals that, according to the European Union's information security agency, “[p]rinters and copiers could be the weak spot in many companies' cyber defences, warned on Tuesday. In a report, the EU experts warned that companies are often unaware of the dangers posed by printers that are [...]
The Associated Press has an interesting article today on the fledgling Palestinian high tech industry and how it could one day drive the territories’ sluggish economy. The Seattle Times writes that “Microsoft is flying University of Washington student Jeffrey Bigham to Paris where he'll collect a grand prize in the [...]
The International Herald Tribune reveals that “[h]aving nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, the popular online hangout Facebook is about to undergo a housecleaning. Visitors who cannot stand the clutter that has been piling up will be glad to see that the [...]
The Register reveals that “[a] new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack.” The [...]