SEOUL — South Korean websites were attacked again Thursday after a wave of website outages in the U.S. and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was behind.
Seven sites — one belonging to the government and the others to private entities — were attacked in the third round of cyber assaults, said Ku Kyo-young, [...]

Evidence has surfaced that the denial-of-service attacks that crippled dozens of U.S. and South Korean web sites last week may not have been perpetrated by North Korea, as widely surmised.

Bkis Security has just disclosed analysis showing that 166,908 botted PCs from 74 countries were used in the attacks. Commands were routed through eight control [...]

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UK readers may find Red Ten Internet interesting. For £20 a month, you get 8mbps broadband and a free PC worth £500. The catch is that you’ll have to sign up for 3 years, but after the 3 years the PC is yours to keep. According to the Red Ten site, the PC has the [...]

The Diatec SmartTrack Neo USB trackpad straight from Japan can now add this functionality to a desktop PC, and it couldbe arriving just in time for testing on Windows 7, the first MS’ OS with integrated multi-touch tricks.
The mini-pad measures at 3″ by 1.8″, comes with 2 buttons, and supports most of the same gesture [...]

Microsoft unveiled a new version of its software for aggregating health records that makes it easier for patients and doctors to share information electronically.
The new release, Almaga Unified Intelligent System 2009, offers bi-directional integration with Microsoft’s HealthVault, an online repository where people can store and manage their health and wellness information, said Steve Shihadeh, a [...]

Microsoft had a meeting with Ars at GDC 2009 to announce its upcoming additions to the Games for Windows platform including stronger protection against piracy.
Drew Johnston, the Product Unit Manager for the Windows Gaming Platform said that they have zero-day piracy protection, this helps reduce the leakage of IP before release. These bits are encrypted [...]