Andy Patrizio

A security researcher has discovered a rather sneaky new exploit involving the Google Toolbar, where hackers can pretend to be installing a legitimate Toolbar button item but they’re really installing malicious code. Aviv Raff noted that the spoof presents legitimate-looking dialog boxes and windows to convince users that the button comes from a trusted domain. […]

It seems the errata error found in AMD’s Quad Core Opteron (“Barcelona”) did indeed cause a delay in shipments, forcing the company to revise the design and delay volume shipment from this quarter until Q2 of 2008. Semiconductors are prone to errata errors, which only manifest when the chip is made. They are usually minor […]

The Liberty Alliance announced Tuesday that the Tower of Babel just got one story shorter now that five IT providers have passed a unified test to insure single sign-on interoperability. The Alliance is a consortium focused on identity management in Web services and the development of a number of specifications related to identity and single […]

With power and cooling issues so prevalent in the minds of IT administrators, there will be the inevitable cottage industry of companies offering some kind of fix to the problems associated with a giant electric bill. Validus DC Systems, a startup company specializing in IT power solutions, has just closed a $10 million round of […]

Intel may have made a slew of announcements at its recent Developer Forum but it still has lots more news to offer at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The chipmaker will show off new mobile platforms, flash memory and high-speed wireless networking products at the giant consumer electronics show. Because of […]

Security assessment firm Qualys today released QualysGuard PCI 2.0, the latest version of its Payment Card Interface (PCI) compliance testing tool for merchants to assess their electronic billing infrastructure and insure safe transactions. PCI compliance testing, which measures how secure credit card transactions are within a firm, has taken on an increasing urgency in light […]

The threat of rootkits seems to have faded from public consciousness in recent months, with key loggers and Trojans getting most of the attention. However, a survey by Internet security vendor Prevx finds that quite a few PCs are infected with rootkits. Prevx has a free scanner called Prevx CSI that looks for rootkit […]

Intel’s dominance of the semiconductor sector continues unabated as the chip giant increased its total market share in 2007 to 12.2 percent, well ahead of Samsung, Toshiba and the other chipmakers, according to a report by Gartner. The overall worldwide semiconductor market grew a mere 2.9 percent in revenue to $270.3 billion in 2007, with […]

Intel’s dominance of the semiconductor sector continues unabated as the chip giant increased its market share during 2007 to a total of 12.2 percent of the market, well ahead of Samsung, Toshiba and the other players, according to a report by Gartner. The overall worldwide semiconductor market grew a mere 2.9 percent in revenue to […]

Amid a flurry of new product announcements, AMD took plenty of time during its annual meeting with New York financial analysts to flagellate itself over the manufacturing problems that made this a year it would rather forget. The errata problems with the Quad-Core Opteron were front and center, as was the write-down of ATI assets […]

The emphasis at CPU companies in recent years has been on cores, not clock speed. Try telling that to defense contractor Northrop Grumman, for which 2.4 or 3.2 gigahertz is now small potatoes: It’s developed the first 1,000GHz transistor. The company described how it developer the 1 terahertz (THz) transistor in a paper presented at […]