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Financial Services Leader Expands and Innovates With HP Integrity Servers and Linux

Fiserv Investment Support Services Fiserv ISS, one of the largest trustees of self-directed retirement plans in the U.S., recently adopted an Itanium 2 - based HP Integrity server platform equipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and an Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters to process...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Fiserv Inc., Financial Services Leader, Fiserv ISS, Financial Accounting, Linux, Servers, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

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Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safe

Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safeLHC "vital"?I think Dr. Hawking is overstating the case just a little, but I agree that fears that the LHC will create an earth-swallowing black hole that would require a lot more matter than is available are way overblown.I think the media just likes the...

Tags: LHC, Stephen Hawking

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

How pot may win the war against super-bacteria

How pot may win the war against super-bacteriaWell, this would be great news for...Lays potato chips!This explains alot!!I think we finally see why Mr. Blankenhorn's writing has been of such "quality"...seems to have an affinity towards the poor, oppressed illegal users of "medical marijuana". Oh...maybe he's got a headache...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Pot

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?God help your state’s taxpayers.God help your state’s taxpayers. Anyone who would take your view of client side protection in a school is incompetent.Since I use Linux for servers and clients...I only use ClamAV to scan inbound email.RE: Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?Do...

Tags: Flash memory, client side

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

NASA confirms infection, 'not the first time'

As I noted a few days ago, the International Space Station has a virus, which NASA now confirms. From eFlux, a spokesperson explained: "This is not the first time we have had a worm or a virus," said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries during a press...

Tags: Infection, NASA, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-02

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...

Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

  Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...

Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-01

US online households pay 11 bills a month online

63.1 mln US households are paying their bills online rather than writing paper checks, according to Fiserv. 13% of respondents cited online security as the top reason for not using the online bill payment service, down from 17% in the 2007 survey. Overall, online security ranked third among barriers to...

Tags: Online Bill Payment, Survey, Online Bill Payment Adoption, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Codename of the day: Nitrogen

Codename of the day: NitrogenCodeword - "Infection"Can't think why ZDnet aren't trumpeting Microsoft's latest embarassing achievement -Wonder if the US army's robots will be running 'Hasta La Vista'?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmNasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a Windows virus known as Gammima.AG.The worm was...

Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Nitrogen

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Malware detected at the International Space Station

Malware detected at the International Space StationBetter use Linux next timeI'm amazed that anything M$ is allowed into space. It's totally insane. What next - avionics powered by Windows? That's one flight I won't be going on :DRE: Malware detected at the International Space StationNorton Anti-virus updates on a daily...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, malware, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, worm

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Malware detected at the International Space Station

Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : "W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of...

Tags: Software, Space Station, NASA, Antivirus, Malware, Laptop Computer, Virus, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Russia, Georgia and NASA

Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...

Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long

Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this longBest security is to take computers off the NetFor my computers at home, there is now only one that has firewalled access to the Internet. My kids' computers DO NOT. My media server DOES NOT. The PC with my finance stuff and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, UAC, administrative right

Discussion threads 2008-08-09

Oracle ships emergency workaround for zero-day flaw

For the first time since the introduction of its quarterly Critical Patch Update process in 2005, Oracle has released an emergency alert to offer mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability that's been published on the Internet. The emergency workaround, available here, addresses an unpatched vulnerability that's remotely exploitable...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Vulnerability, Zero-day Bug, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Responding to the DNS vulnerability and attacks

The DNS vulnerability, which has completely dominated the news in the security world the last two weeks, has been a concern for so many.  On the front of good news and getting things protected, the IBM ISS has team has published some great information. The Frequency X...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, DNS Server, Server, Network Address Translation, IBM Corp., Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

ISS Smart Flow Free Edition (zip)

Smart Flow is the ISS internally-used process and document management application. It is aimed to the managers who need their everyday work neatly organized, and information easily available at any time. Smart Flow organizes everyday work and documents into categories, work processes and tasks - similar to folders - including...

Tags: Document, Innovative Smart Systems, Smart Flow, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2008-06-12

Testing new transistors in space

Northwestern University researchers have developed new transistors which are currently tested on the International Space Station ISS to see how they react to cosmic radiation. These transistors, which are using a new kind of gate dielectric material called a self-assembled nanodielectric SAND, are exposed to radiation outside the ISS since...

Tags: Silicon, Northwestern University, Transistor, Radiation, Semiconductors, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Adobe Flash drive-by attacks redux

Adobe has finally issued an almost-definitive statement on the reports of a zero-day attack targeting its flagship Flash Player, suggesting kinda that the vulnerability is already patched. In a progress report posted to the official Adobe PSIRT blog, David Lenoe stops short of making definitive statements on...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Macromedia Flash Player, Malware, Attack, Malware Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Will the Earth fry future moon astronauts?

Will the Earth fry future moon astronauts?Land on the back side.I'm guessing that if there were a problem, it would be on the side of the moon facing the planet. So, maybe land on the back side.RE: Will the Earth fry future moon astronauts?Sounds like a potential source of energy.Does...

Tags: moon, satellite, back side

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

If CAPTCHAs are decommissioned what comes next?

CAPTCHAs sound like a great idea. Give humans a little test to verify they aren't machines, verify an account and thwart hackers. But CAPTCHAs no longer offer a good defense to thwart malicious hackers. So what's next? Last week, Websense noted that Google's Gmail CAPTCHA was busted....

Tags: CAPTCHA, CAPACHA, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-26