National Data-breach Law Would Help Fight Cybercrime

What do you guys think? The FBI is saying a national data breach law would help fight cybercrime. What they are saying makes sense but we all know how these things go when they are part of a "comprehensive cyber security bill that blah blah blah."

If U.S. businesses were required to share information about their data breaches, law enforcement agencies could link those attacks to others and potentially stop similar attacks at other organizations, said Jeffrey Troy, chief of the FBI's Cyber Criminal Section.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Session Recordings

For those of you that missed NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference earlier this month, many of the presentations given at the event are now available online. More are being added to the site daily so if you don’t see what you are looking for, keep checking back.

Screencast plus audio recordings of most sessions are now getting posted as they become available, and can be found in the session catalog and calendar. Please open the session catalog or calendar from the agenda page, click on each session ID number to view streamed recordings or download files. The NVIDIA Research Summit posters are also now available. Click here to view a list of posters and to view or download each individual poster.

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New Phishing Attack on Twitter Users

Scumbag scammers are trying to trick Twitter users.

We've seen a few phishing attempts today; if you've received a strange DM and it takes you to a Twitter login page, don't do it!

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Windows 7: The Next Generation of Customer Support

For routine computing issues, it’s not always convenient to call a customer support line and talk to a technology professional. Wouldn’t it be nice if the software could fix itself, or at least point to the problem and suggest how you can fix it? Increasingly, it can. And with the launch last week of Windows 7, Microsoft customers are finding a whole new world when it comes to getting software support at their fingertips.

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Intel's Embedded Chip Roadmap

The Intel Embedded Platform Roadmap is a new interactive online resource that provides information about current and next-generation Intel architecture platforms, product information and design data, and provides access to development tools and training. The resource is available in the Embedded Design Center.

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Sony Recalls Computer AC Adapters

If you have a Sony VAIO desktop, all-in-one PC, laptop or docking station you might want to check out this recall issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Insulation inside the AC adapter can fail over time, posing an electrical shock hazard to consumers. Sony has received four reports of adapters short circuiting. No incidents occurred in the United States. No injuries have been reported.

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Intel's Next-Gen Memory Closer to Reality

DeepTech has a bit of an update on how Intel’s phase-change memory is progressing, how it will be used and when we might actually see it.

Its 64-megabit capacity isn't momentous on its own--Numonyx announced a 128Mb device in 2006 and Samsung said in September it's producing a 512Mb chip. But what is significant are two major advances in making the decades-old idea practical.

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FDIC E-Mails Are Fakes Too

Continuing the "don’t do it, it’s a trick" theme we apparently have going on today, there is a fake FDIC e-mail making the rounds.

E-mails fraudulently claiming to be from the FDIC are attempting to trick recipients into installing unknown software on personal computers. These e-mails falsely indicate that recipients should download and open a "personal FDIC insurance file" to check their deposit insurance coverage. The "insurance file" may actually be a form of spyware or malicious code and may collect personal or confidential information.

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[H]ardware Round-Up II

Cases & Modding

Lian Li PC-V351R SFF Case @ techPowerUP!

Cooling

Thermalright T-Rad2 VGA Cooler @ LanOC

ETC.

Alienware Aurora ALX Gaming System @ HotHardware

Running Ubuntu 9.10 With Older PC Hardware @ Phoronix

Memory/ Storage

Kingston's SSDNow V Series 40GB @ Bit-Tech

Motherboards

Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R Intel P55 Motherboard @ PCStats

Intel DP55KG P55 Lynnfield Motherboard @ PC Perspective

Video

XFX Radeon HD 5870 @ Neoseeker

Fake Google Chrome OS Download

Okay people, calm down…it’s fake. I repeat, there is no Chrome OS download available today.

An official-looking page offered the opportunity to download the public beta as a VMWare appliance—but it turns out that the download was a fake. The site, hosted on Google’s Web-hosting service, has since been shut down.

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Zeus Botnet Targets Facebook

Another day another boatload of Phishing e-mails from scumbag scammers. This time around the scam e-mails are targeting Facebook users and, according to the report, the e-mails look fairly convincing.

This morning a rather aggressive one two punch started coming into our filters, and is currently still very active attempting to deliver Facebook phshing emails at a rate of about 1000 messages per minute per domain used with about 30 domains being utilized. That's 30,000 messages per minute from this botnet, or 500 per second. On top of that we've already seen about 1.65 million messages from this campaign.

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Hack / Mod of the Day

Check out this hack/mod! Supposedly it works too.

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