July 31, 2012, 5:13 PM — The Official Ubuntu Book, 7th Edition By Matthew Helmke, Amber Graner, Kyle Rankin, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon. Published by Prentice Hall. ITworld has 5 copies to give to some lucky readers. Complete the form below for your chance to win! Learn how to use and customize Ubuntu for [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012Why Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation
Sunday, July 29th, 2012Beliefs and Misbeliefs about Open Source Software Wenjia Zhao Forbes Staff Rethinking the Concept of “Outliers”: Why Non-Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation Singularity University Affiliate Contributor Two weeks ago, Amy Clark wrote that an open-source model can — and should — be applied to scientific research in the pharmaceutical industry. Using insights from Ashoka [...]
WordPress Founder Discusses Telework, Travel and Tenacity
Friday, July 27th, 2012Brittany Ballenstedt Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov‘s Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal’s Technology Daily. She holds a [...]
Dubai: Domain name
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published the long-awaited list of organisations seeking to obtain new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), commonly recognised as internet address endings or suffixes. Dubai eGovernment (DeG) is one of the more than 1900 applicants for gTLDs and is hoping to secure the recently dubbed dotDubai [...]
Paul Vixie On DNS Changer: We’re Dealing With Malware the Wrong Way
Thursday, July 12th, 2012What you propose turns out to be, in practice, a pipe dream. If you don’t know anything about cars, you’re getting ripped off by car mechanics and dealerships every time you visit them. And I do mean ripped off; I’d think an average car-driving american can easily waste $20k over their life that way. If [...]
From the Application Window to the Ballot Box
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012Politics and government abound when your headquarters are located in Washington, DC. The White House is a relatively short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from our office in Georgetown, and the Capitol is not much further than that. There are even rumors that the CIA used to have a secret drop-off spot just a block from [...]
How the DNSChanger malware works
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012IDG News Service – Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be ‘Internet Doomsday’ when the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers infected with this threat were to be cut off from the Internet. According to an IDG report, the FBI estimated [...]
Andrew Donaldson ill-informed about Ubuntu
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Let’s Talk about Ubuntu and Live it – a response to Andrew Donaldson Why do so many journalists decry Ubuntu? And what stops the promise of Ubuntu from flying high and rooting itself deeply? The recent article written by Andrew Donaldson requires a rapid response. To his credit, Donaldson’s article sheds light on the [...]
A sober-minded guide to Internet ‘Doomsday’
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012(CNN) — It’s been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the “Doomsday” for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world’s computer brain. But what caused the “Malware Monday” panic, and is it really [...]
A sober-minded guide to Internet ‘Doomsday’
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012(CNN) — It’s been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the “Doomsday” for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world’s computer brain. But what caused the “Malware Monday” panic, and is it really [...]
DNSChanger snuff out was a snooze
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Top 20 countries and estimates of computers infected with DNSChanger this weekend. (Credit: F-Secure) Despite the dire warnings about the Internet going dead for thousands of people today, I am happy to report that it’s all business as usual. You may proceed to the cute cat videos. After months of warnings, the FBI pulled the [...]
DNSChanger Post-Mortem: What Did We Learn?
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012The DNS Changer Working Group took its DNS servers offline earlier today, and the world didn’t end. Isn’t that great? As PCMag.com reported earlier today, many of the Internet Service Providers configured their own substitute DNS servers and are continuing to work the problem. Major Internet providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and others, [...]
DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]
FBI DNS Changer Creates Mass Hysteria for Computer Users Losing Internet Access
Monday, July 9th, 2012PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 09, 2012 – DNS Changer has been among the talk of the town described by virtually every syndicated media outlet to be the latest emerging threat among internet-connected computers. DNS Changer was found to be a type of Trojan horse threat that could essentially change the settings on a PC [...]
DNSChanger apocalypse: Like Y2K, but even snoozier
Monday, July 9th, 2012Top 20 countries and estimates of computers infected with DNSChanger this weekend. (Credit: F-Secure) Despite the dire warnings about the Internet going dead for thousands of people today, I am happy to report that it’s all business as usual. You may proceed to the cute cat videos. After months of warnings, the FBI pulled the [...]
DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans
Monday, July 9th, 2012The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]
Will your Internet be cut off by DNS Changer Monday? How to find out.
Sunday, July 8th, 2012Computers still infected by the DNS Changer malware using an Eastern European advertising scam won’t be able to access the Internet Monday, when the FBI is expected to shut down the servers that ran the operation. But there’s a fix. By Mark Clayton, Staff writer / July 8, 2012 The DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) has [...]
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DNS Changer: No Harm, No Foul, Thanks to Big Brother
Thursday, July 12th, 2012NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It seems for as much as people love the idea of guardian angels and the movie stories of someone watching and protecting them from danger, these same people also clamor over their rights to privacy. They want it both ways. Except sometimes they forget that freedom comes at a cost. If [...]