In Through The Out Door

The cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China’s cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China’s actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attakers may have been involved [...]

CNet story about a discussion from Google’s Jeff Dean spotlighting some of the inner workings of the search giant’s massive data centers. Quoting: “‘Our view is it’s better to have twice as much hardware that’s not as reliable than half as much that’s more reliable,’ Dean said. ‘You have to provide reliability on [...]

While rootkits for common operating systems, like Windows, are well known, they haven’t been a security issue for Cisco’s IOS until now.

[From Cisco IOS Rootkit Demonstrated]

Get the most from your TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, or other GPS device by learning how to speed satellite lock, send maps from your PC, create POIs, and more from our GPS expert.

[From Top 10 GPS Tips And Tricks]

Did China’s Hackers Shut Off the Lights?— Hackers working on behalf of China’s People’s Liberation Army have penetrated networks controlling electric power grids in the United States, computer security experts believe. And that may have precipitated a massive blackout …

[From Did China's Hackers Shut Off the Lights? (Updated) (Noah Shachtman/Danger Room)]

Dr. Jim writes “The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list. Multicore servers and virtualization will mean that firms [...]

One of the most interesting features in Solaris is its ZFS filesystem. Read on for a quick guide to ZFS administration.

[From Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS]