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Cuts in fiber-optic lines early Thursday at two locations near Silicon Valley shut down two IBM facilities and affected an organization in charge of Internet domain names. Malware attacks from China and Russia designed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid in a time of war did not occur, China said Thursday. (3:06) Follow Network World on Twitter Conficker Awakens, Starts Scamming
The Conficker worm is back in action and stumping security experts once again. One of the most craftily designed pieces of malware recently got an update and is finally starting to behave like other worms. Here's what's going on. Protocol fuzzingPurser: Fuzzing is the art of feeding a bunch of random stuff (You know, kinda like the same thing many analysts do to us only more credible/useful) to a program or protocol to crash it and analyze the results. This is why many vendors want your crash data. It is ULTRA important! A crash tells a code jockey so much about a program. It can also tell a hacker even more. Bluetooth 3.0 Coming April 21?
The Bluetooth 3.0 buzz is building. According to several industry blogs, the short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 will get its official launch on April 21. However, the developers of the standard, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, aren't officially saying anything. According to blog DVice, it has received a press release from the Bluetooth SIG that the latest Bluetooth standard will debut April 21 when specifications will be unveiled. China denies cyberattacks on U.S. power grid
Malware attacks from China and Russia designed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid in a time of war did not occur, China said Thursday. Silicon Valley Cable-Cutters: The Real Harm
How many people did the cable cutters kill? This is not an attempt to be overdramatic, but when you cut the fiber optic that provides dial tone and Internet to large numbers of people in four counties, as well as their 911 centers, you put lives at risk. If the outage continues long enough, at some point this risk becomes sad reality. Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems came careening to a halt, then-CEO Scott McNealy and President Ed Zander held a meeting where they discussed the future of their company. Inside the Smithsonian Institution’s first “virtual museum”
While many education organizations would love to have their own museums, it can be costly to own a building large enough to display their exhibits. The Smithsonian Latino Center has solved this problem by taking its museum online. | 
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