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Privacy
UK Surveillance Powers Bill Slammed For Privacy, Clarity And Targeting Failures
7:59 am PST • February 9, 2016
One of the UK parliamentary committees that is scrutinizing proposed new surveillance legislation has published its report on the draft Investigatory Powers bill — and it makes for uncomfortable reading…
Enterprise
Microsoft Confirms Interactive Supercomputing Acquisition, Shuts Down Star-P
4:48 am PDT • September 22, 2009
peHUB yesterday caught wind of Microsoft’s supposed acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing, a company specialized in bringing the power of parallel computing to desktops, but was declined an official comment to…
Hardware
Unpatched PCs put in compromising situation in under four minutes
3:33 pm PDT • July 15, 2008
According to researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), an unpatched PC will last in the wilds of the Web less than four minutes before being attacked and compromised.…