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This building is so cool…

admin @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Construction of the world’s first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin. The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.
“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said David Fisher, the […]

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Digital Point Forums under a DDOS Attack

admin @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Apparently the admins or moderators crawled up someone’s back recently…not hard to do there with the excessively strict rules and some quick draw moderators…anyways the site seems to have been down for most or all of yesterday and part of today.
During those times it has been up pages take several minutes to load and replies […]

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Microsoft cleans fake antivirus tool from 994,061 PCs

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The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a small program Microsoft pushes out to computers on Patch Tuesday to clean out a list of malware.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently released some data on how the removal tool performed this month: FakeSecSen was removed from 994,061 machines. That number isn’t the highest Microsoft has recorded […]

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Kernel vulnerability found in Vista

admin @ November 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet

A flaw in Vista’s networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack
A flaw has been found in Windows Vista that could allow rootkits to be hidden or denial-of-service attacks to be executed on computers using the operating system.
Microsoft told ZDNet UK on Friday […]

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Federal Reserve spam attack emerges

admin @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The message contains a fake Federal Reserve letterhead and warns users in typically broken English that a “large-scales phishing attack started and has been still lasting”.
In addition to the shoddy grammar, the messages are identifiable in their attempt to lure victims to an outside URL.
On clicking the link, the user is briefly sent to a […]

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