Malicious code affects every aspect of our society, from government to business through to everyday consumers, says UK defence technology firm QinetiQ.
“The money malware generates fuels criminal activity on a phenomenal basis, and we must invest in the future of our cybersecurity industry to make such attacks unprofitable,” said Neil Cassidy, operations director of the security practice at QinetiQ.
It is now a year since the British Computer Society (BCS) – which is a registered charity, a membership body, and has royal charter to “promote the study and practice of computing and to advance knowledge and education therein for the benefit of the public” – held an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to consider its direction, writes Amit Bhagwat.
Slides of a key presentation to Intel’s partners was leaked to sections of the media, which reveal Intel’s own performance testing of the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition, the top-model of the socket LGA2011 “Sandy Bridge-E” processor series. Meet the family here. In its comparison, Intel maintained the Core i7-990X Extreme Edition socket LGA1366 processor as this generation’s top offering. It was pitted against the Core i7-3960X in a battery of tests that included some enthusiast favourites such as Cinebench 11.5, POV-Ray 3.7, 3DMark 11 physics, Pro-Show Gold 4.5, and some OEM favourites such as SPECint_rate base2006, SPECfp_rate base2006, and SiSoft SANDRA 2011B multimedia and memory bandwidth. Read full article…
Lion is coming to a USB stick near you.
Apple this week launched the newest version of its OS X operating system, Lion. The software debuted in Apple’s Mac App Store and has already racked up a million downloads. However, downloading is not your only option; Apple is also releasing the new iteration of its OS on USB stick next month.
Costing $69, it’s a full $40 more than the $29 users are paying for the download. Why is Apple selling the OS on USB and charging more than double the price? We can’t say for sure, but we’re betting it’s got something to do with the fact that OS X Lion is a rather hefty download and not everyone has the speed or bandwidth to download it.