25C3: Hackers completely break SSL using 200 PS3s

A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would [...]

Macworld: Hoping for a Steve Jobs surprise

One of Steve Jobs’ strengths as a public speaker is his showman’s sense of timing.

Like a magician who knows he has one last rabbit up his sleeve, he delivers his famous keynotes with a twinkle in his eye. Even if you are pretty sure what his “one more thing” is going to be — and [...]

Everything you need to know about Windows 7

“Microsoft has been developing Windows 7 under a shroud of secrecy worthy of Apple, and it’s led to a rash of rumours and unfounded expectations.
So let us state for the record: Windows 7 doesn’t have a new kernel, it doesn’t run in the cloud and it’s not based on Midori (a research project focused [...]

Microsoft Defeats a Seven-Year-Old Bug

Microsoft recently released two new patches, one of which fixes a security hole that the company has been trying to plug since 2001. Amazingly, no one exploited the hole during those seven years.
Previous patches had mitigated the problem, so Microsoft rated its severity level as Important, the second-highest rating on the company’s four-tier scale.
This bug [...]

AMD introduces power efficient 45nm quad chips

The world’s first ‘native’ quad-core processor realised with a 45-nanometer fabrication process saw its development anchored in Bangalore, with key parts of the central processor and the memory interfaces contributed by Indian engineers.
While AMD’s new 4-core Opteron chip for server applications was developed by its Sunnyvale (U.S.) and India-based team, the effort was led by [...]