Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Email addresses marked private were exposed on Facebook Tuesday night due to an apparent technical glitch. Twitter users angrily discussed the new mishap that lasted for at least 30 minutes. The social networking site is already in the spotlight for frequent changes to its privacy policy (ip-192.com reported here). If implemented, the [...]
Trojan targets critics in Vietnam
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hanoi (ip-192.com): A new malware attack in Vietnam was discovered by Google. Critics of a controversial bauxite mining project backed by China have been the target of the attack, several newspapers report. Malicious software was used to infect potentially tens of thousands computers around the world, mainly owned or operated by Vietnamese speaking people. "These [...]
AMD: World’s first 12-core processor
March 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): AMD hopes to make servers more affordable with its new Opteron 6000 server platform. The Opteron 6100 processor lineup currently consists of 10 chips with either 8 or 12 cores for the high volume 2P and value 4P server market. Since Microsoft licenses are based on processors and not cores, more processing power [...]
China: New disruptions for Google?
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mountain View (ip-192.com): Internet users in China experience new disruptions when they try to use Google’s search engine. Queries are dropped even for innocent searches that have not been censored before. Several media reports indicate that almost all searches on Google initiated by users in mainland China seem to be blocked now. Google confirmed that [...]
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