Tuesday, January 31, 2012

SeaMicro packs punch with 'brawny' microservers - CNET




SeaMicro packs punch with 'brawny' microservers
CNET
The four-year old company achieved the low-power architecture by stripping the server down to its bare essentials and designing a custom "fabric" chip that handles all the communications between the CPU and other server components.


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SeaMicro cranks out 'brawny' microservers - CNET




SeaMicro cranks out 'brawny' microservers
CNET
The four-year old company achieved the low-power architecture by stripping the server down to its bare essentials and designing a custom "fabric" chip that handles all the communications between the CPU and other server components.

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nTelos, Sprint working on service outage - WDBJ7




nTelos, Sprint working on service outage
WDBJ7
Here is a message posted on the nTelos Facebook page: We are currently experiencing a network outage in the western parts of Virginia. Our network engineering team is fully engaged and is urgently troubleshooting the situation.
nTelos Working to Restore Service IssuesWSET

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Higher Education and the SOPA and PIPA Bills - The IUSB Preface




GigaOm

Higher Education and the SOPA and PIPA Bills
The IUSB Preface
... were hosting copyrighted material, this would include re-linking to websites with questionable material, and without permission, forcing them to shut their website down until the matter was resolved and could result in massive fines and jail time.
Demise of internet piracy acts speak to power of online democracyBizTimes.com (Milwaukee) (blog)

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nTelos working on service outage - WDBJ7




nTelos working on service outage
WDBJ7
Here is a message posted on the nTelos Facebook page: We are currently experiencing a network outage in the western parts of Virginia. Our network engineering team is fully engaged and is urgently troubleshooting the situation.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Is The UFC Making All The Right Moves? - MMA Nation




Is The UFC Making All The Right Moves?
MMA Nation
Their website information, there's no reason to believe that was ever threatened however if you're a customer of the UFC, and you see the website's down, you tend to be a little concerned and when the response of the company President is, ...

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City Beat: Sacramento's website down for several more days - Modesto Bee




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City Beat: Sacramento's website down for several more days
Modesto Bee
By Ryan Lillis A a city of Sacramento spokeswoman Amy Williams said this morning the city's website could be down for several more days, the result of a weekend hacking. However, Williams told me city officials hope to have links available later today ...
City of Sacramento Website HackedKCRA Sacramento

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Abu Dhabi Investment Council Selects Send Word Now's Automated Notification ... - MarketWatch (press release)




Abu Dhabi Investment Council Selects Send Word Now's Automated Notification ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Council will use Send Word Now's messaging platform to alert staff members any time that there is an emergency such as a network outage, fire, local crisis, or natural disaster. "We have many staff members who travel overseas for business purposes ...

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Website Down for More than 24 Hours - Youngstown Business Journal




Website Down for More than 24 Hours
Youngstown Business Journal
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Thousands of regular readers of this website -- and the staff of The Business Journal -- were disappointed Friday when they clicked here and found the site was not operating. "Our service provider, Bulletlink.com, ...

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City of Sacramento Website Hacked - KCRA Sacramento




City of Sacramento Website Hacked
KCRA Sacramento
Maurice Chaney said the city was notified of the security breach around 8:30 am and took the website down in response until the system is fully repaired. Chaney said the hacker accessed the city's main website as well as two others: the convention, ...

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Taming telcos - CIO Magazine




Taming telcos
CIO Magazine
You are not likely to have any fallback for your lost profits or lost data if your business is crippled during a network outage or fault. Check that the telco is indemnifying you against any third party intellectual property claims made against you ...


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Saturday, January 28, 2012

How to hacker-proof your mobile - Sydney Morning Herald




Sydney Morning Herald

How to hacker-proof your mobile
Sydney Morning Herald
... a man-in-the middle attack is to send the target a text message that claims to be from his or her mobile service provider asking for permission to "reprovision" or otherwise reconfigure the phone's settings due to a network outage or other problem.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Obama Supporter Arrested For Death Threats to Joe Arpaio - Human Events




Obama Supporter Arrested For Death Threats to Joe Arpaio
Human Events
Google has since taken the website down. The man was targeting Arpaio because of the Obama investigation. AZ Family reported: Detectives with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office served search warrants on Google Wednesday in an effort to find out who ...

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MMA News: Chael Sonnen, Dana White, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort and More - Opposing Views




Opposing Views

MMA News: Chael Sonnen, Dana White, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort and More
Opposing Views
You're not hurting me by taking my website down.” Well, that urging to “do it again” led not to another attack on UFC.com, but one on Dana White himself. @JoshTheGod, the head of UGNazi.com who claimed responsibility for the UFC.com hack, ...

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Anonymous targets OnGuardOnline.gov to protest against SOPA - IBNLive.com




IBNLive.com

Anonymous targets OnGuardOnline.gov to protest against SOPA
IBNLive.com
Sony lending their co-operation to SOPA, reportedly triggered the motive and at precisely the same time of the planned attack, Sony had taken their own website down for routine maintenance. For those not in the know, SOPA and PIPA are online bills that ...

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

UFC's Dana White on SOPA website attackers: 'Knock it down again tonight – do it' - MMAjunkie.com




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UFC's Dana White on SOPA website attackers: 'Knock it down again tonight – do it'
MMAjunkie.com
That's who you can't beat. That's a fight you will always lose." "I'm not Ebay," he said. "If my website goes down for two days, alright. The website goes down for two days. We'll fix it. You're not hurting me by taking my website down."
Dana White Responds to Hackers: 'Do It Again, Do It Tonight'MMAFighting.com

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Dana White Responds to Hackers: 'Do It Again, Do It Tonight' - MMAFighting.com




Dana White Responds to Hackers: 'Do It Again, Do It Tonight'
MMAFighting.com
"You're not hurting me by taking my website down." Since the majority of the UFC's revenues is from pay-per-view, the UFC has long held an aggressive anti-piracy act. SOPA would allow the government to stop advertising networks from accepting ...

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Crissy Moran, Former Porn Star, Has a New Life and is 'Fasting' From Men - LA Weekly (blog)




LA Weekly (blog)

Crissy Moran, Former Porn Star, Has a New Life and is 'Fasting' From Men
LA Weekly (blog)
"I called my webmaster and said, 'I want to get out of the business, take the website down,' and he said, 'No, you're in a contract. Where do you want me to send your money?' 'I don't want the money, just take the site down, that's all I want.


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Verizon Wireless Introduces $2 Convenience Fee - Daily Gossip




Daily Gossip

Verizon Wireless Introduces $2 Convenience Fee
Daily Gossip
Just a few days after dealing with its third consecutive network outage this month, Verizon Wireless makes a risky decision and introduces a $2 convenience fee. At a time when keeping your customers happy is essential for a business, Verizon likes to ...
Verizon's $2 “Convenience Fees” Coming January 15, 2012Mobile Magazine

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Power outage caused OCBC trading site to disconnect from SGX - AsiaOne




AsiaOne

Power outage caused OCBC trading site to disconnect from SGX
AsiaOne
A power outage had left the website down at about 8.55am on Jan 26, resulting in the disconnection of OCBC's trading system to the Singapore Exchange. Power was restored at 11am and OCBC progressively resumed trading services.

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Lorain police union asks for city computer records - The Morning Journal




Lorain police union asks for city computer records
The Morning Journal
When a network outage occurs, police don't get 911 calls and must wait for the MIS department to reset the system. * In 2010, Councilwoman-at-Large Anne Molnar was added to an email distribution list for sworn police staff. The MIS department staff ...


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Interlibrary loan system on fritz - Concord Monitor




Interlibrary loan system on fritz
Concord Monitor
As far as the library's patrons, "we've just said so far that we're a little bit backed up because the server's down at the library," Benoit said. "If it continues we'll have to rethink how we do things." In Chichester, librarian Lisa Prizio was coping ...

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DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are - Search Engine Land




DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are
Search Engine Land
The chart is impressive and shows the monthly moving averages of direct queries on DuckDuckGo's website. Down below the chart are the numbers that show the search engine had 731472 direct queries on January 24th — a new record, breaking the record ...


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Build Up Your Phone's Defenses Against Hackers - New York Times




Build Up Your Phone's Defenses Against Hackers
New York Times
... a man-in-the middle attack is to send the target a text message that claims to be from his or her cell service provider asking for permission to “reprovision” or otherwise reconfigure the phone's settings due to a network outage or other problem.

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Server Down Show - Folge 191: Demonicon - GameStar




Server Down Show - Folge 191: Demonicon
GameStar
Die neue Server Down Show ist da! Mit viel Info und viel Demonicon, vorgestellt von Michael Graf. Der hat sich das Spiel näher angeschaut und berichtet Weins und Clape davon. Von Moritz Holzapfel | »Das schwarze Auge« erfreut sich als Pen and ...


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Windows emergency update live today: are you patched? - SlashGear




Daily Disruption

Windows emergency update live today: are you patched?
SlashGear
Several requests of course could cut a server down to it's knees in no time. Microsoft has the following to say: “Attacks targeting this type of vulnerability are generically known as hash collision attacks,” the company said, adding that the hole is ...
Microsoft Ruins Perfect Record with Out-Of-Band PatchCIO India
Microsoft Releases Workarounds for DoS Zero-Day Bug in ASP.NETChannel Insider

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Cyber attack crashes Irish government website - BBC News




BBC News

Cyber attack crashes Irish government website
BBC News
Such attacks often see a website's servers overloaded with huge numbers of simple requests, bringing the website down. The Department of Justice said it had experienced a distributed denial of service attack. This is not an attempt to extract ...
Government websites taken down amid hacking attemptsInsideireland.ie
Government websites hit by attacksBelfast Telegraph

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RIM: Global issues don't impact Indian users' decision - Times of India




RIM: Global issues don't impact Indian users' decision
Times of India
Last year's global network outage hit the brand value of BlackBerry. And there's increased competition . Samsung's Android-based Galaxy series has become a huge success. The country's largest phone maker Nokia too has introduced its first Windows-based ...

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Hackers target Government websites - RTE.ie




Hackers target Government websites
RTE.ie
Such attacks often see a website's servers overloaded with huge numbers of simple requests - bringing the website down. A Twitter account called Anonymous Sweden (@AnonOpsSweden) appeared to claim responsibility for the attack, saying it was in protest ...


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Airtel customers in India hit by network outage - Ghana Business News




Airtel customers in India hit by network outage
Ghana Business News
Customers of Bharti Airtel in the western part of Maharashtra in India are said to be experiencing a service outage due to a technical glitch in the service provider's systems that cropped up, reports The Times of India December 27, 2011.

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Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)




Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The new Mako 6500 features a failover option, so that in the event of a fixed-line network outage the appliance will automatically switch over to a wireless 3G connection. When the primary connection becomes available again, the Mako 6500 will fall ...

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Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity - Business Wire (press release)




Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity
Business Wire (press release)
The new Mako 6500 features a failover option, so that in the event of a fixed-line network outage the appliance will automatically switch over to a wireless 3G connection. When the primary connection becomes available again, the Mako 6500 will fall ...

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RCOM Disconnects Etisalat For Non-Payment Of Dues: Report - MediaNama.com




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RCOM Disconnects Etisalat For Non-Payment Of Dues: Report
MediaNama.com
By Anupam Saxena on Jan 24th, 2012 | Post a Comment Mobile service provider Etisalat DB, which operates services under the Cheers brand name, has been facing a network outage since Friday, 23rd January, across all its 15 circles.

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Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity - MarketWatch (press release)




Mako Networks' Award-Winning Network Appliance First to Add 3G Connectivity
MarketWatch (press release)
The new Mako 6500 features a failover option, so that in the event of a fixed-line network outage the appliance will automatically switch over to a wireless 3G connection. When the primary connection becomes available again, the Mako 6500 will fall ...

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Mobile Data: Are You Carrying a Suitcase or a Safe? - PCWorld




Mobile Data: Are You Carrying a Suitcase or a Safe?
PCWorld
[Also see: "Enterprise smartphone and tablet incursion to grow in 2012"] * Balance security with availability -- Even the best encryption software can be left useless in the case of a network outage. And, since one of the hallmarks of the mobile ...

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Mako Networks releases 3G network appliance - Voxy




Mako Networks releases 3G network appliance
Voxy
The new Mako 6500 features a failover option, so that in the event of a fixed-line network outage the appliance will automatically switch over to a wireless 3G connection. When the primary connection becomes available again, the Mako 6500 will fall ...


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Mobile data: Are you carrying a suitcase or a safe? - CIO Magazine




Mobile data: Are you carrying a suitcase or a safe?
CIO Magazine
[Also see: "Enterprise smartphone and tablet incursion to grow in 2012"] * Balance security with availability -- Even the best encryption software can be left useless in the case of a network outage. And, since one of the hallmarks of the mobile ...


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Toronto Maple Leafs Game Face Challenge Rules & Regulations - Toronto Star




Toronto Maple Leafs Game Face Challenge Rules & Regulations
Toronto Star
... that may arise in connection with this Contest, including technical failures on the website or Contest software, viruses, website disruptions, malfunctions or website down-time, human error or property damage incurred by any Contest entrant.

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