Game Consoles Scaled to Servers

New XBOX. Get this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7835721/ 20-gigabyte detachable, upgradable hard drive; 3 dual-core processors running at 3.2 ghz;512 mb RAM; 3 USB ports that can connect with digital cameras and portable music players. When the game console becomes more powerful than servers running our companies, we should be concerned, shouldn’t we? R

Spear Phishing

Source: US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin May 4 – May 10, 2005 Phishing Evolves. A new method of phishing called ‘spear phishing’ that evades traditional anti-phishing defenses is being used by Internet scammers. Spear phishing is more specific, because it typically targets a handful of people who are employees of an organization. In one method, the [...]

Longhorn and the Aero Interface

Longhorn is apparently going to get a socialnet infusion. Social-networking technologies, including blogs, Wikis, and RSS, are likely to play a key part in the Longhorn “Aero” interface, based on a recent reorganization at Microsoft. In late April, Microsoft reassigned Lili Cheng, group manager of Microsoft Research’s social-computing group, to the Windows Shell interface team. [...]