Andy Patrizio

Never ones to pass up a growing market, cybercriminals are turning their targets on the growing markets around the world, creating localized content in native languages or targeting specific interests of that nation. That’s the main takeaway from McAfee Avert Labs global malware trends Sage report, called “One Internet, Many Worlds.” For the longest time, […]

Microsoft has posted a listing of applications known to break under Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. It’s hardly a stop-the-presses list. Most of the affected software is, not surprisingly, security-related software. Considering how much Microsoft retooled Vista to improve its security, I’m surprised it didn’t break more apps than it did. The one true […]

Market research firm iSuppli announced it’s cut its outlook for global NAND flash revenue growth in 2008 to the single digit percentage range, a major drop from the 27 percent it projected for 2008. And just like the FBR Capital Markets research note earlier this month that reported a slowdown due to a major drop […]

As if Windows Vista hasn’t suffered enough embarrassment over technical problems, Microsoft today was forced to pull one of the three requisite update files to install Service Pack 1 (SP1), thus delaying the availability of the service pack itself. There had been a growing number of reports on the Internet, including on Microsoft’s TechNet site, […]

This Friday, there will be a party on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. What else is new, right? Well for starters, the party is to celebrate the launch of what will be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and definitely the fastest available for scientists looking to do non-military […]

YouTube has proved to be an unqualified hit, becoming the second-most-popular site on the Internet, according to the traffic monitoring service Alexa. So what if you took the YouTube self-publishing model for video and applied it to documents? You’d get Scribd, a startup firm that launched its iPaper publishing platform this week. Scribd lets people […]

Sun Microsystems today beefed up its blade offerings with a new high-end, higher capacity product capable of running a variety of operating systems on any of three processors. Sun reentered the blade market in mid-2006 and has since released 29 blade-related products, including eight blade server modules, four chassis, and 17 I/O products. The company […]

Who in the world would want a $10,000 PC? How about someone doing heavy-duty content creation? Intel’s new Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform, code-named “Skulltrail,” targets customers that leave the computer running overnight. It offers two quad-core 3.2GHz processors, up to 8GB of memory and four PCI Express slots to run four video cards. It’s […]

Firewall vendor SonicWall today introduced the SonicWall Network Security Appliance Series (NSA), a trio of multifunction firewalls aimed at the mid-enterprise. The NSA Series are multi-core platforms that work with a reassembly-free deep packet inspection engine. Together, they examine all traffic coming in for real-time inspection without slowing down network traffic. “UTM brings multiple security […]

No, not Britney’s career. No need to ask that. I was referring to HD DVD. Ever since the Warner Bros announcement right before CES that it would go Blu-ray only, nothing seems to have gone the format’s way. Last week, Netflix and Best Buy abandoned the format. The Netflix defection left HD DVD without a […]

Mac users might be feeling increasingly nervous, at least according to a survey from corporate security vendor Sophos. In a poll of 350 Mac users, 93 percent believed malware writers would increasingly target the Mac in the future. A few malware attempts have occurred, but more often someone finds an exploit and creates a proof […]

In most mid-size and larger companies, the IT department will have a set of policies of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable software for employee computers. Some companies are as rigid as a steel girder, allowing nothing to be installed if it doesn’t come from a Windows Active Directory server. Others might be […]