Intel Announces Six Core Processor i7-980X Extreme Edition

0Intel Corp. just announced their latest mega-oomph processor: the six core speedster i7-980X Extreme Edition. Like the recently released 2010 Clarkdale lineup, the i7-980X (previously code-named Gulftown) includes Intel’s turbo boost and hyperthreading technologies.

The Core i7-980X will essentially replace Intel’s current performance king, the 45nm Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. While the Core i7-975 will still [...]

15 Very Useful Free Utilities For Your PC

1The guys at PC World have come up with a list of 15 very useful utilities to keep your PC and your valuable data secure.  Use these utilities absolutely free of cost and your data will remain safe and your PC impenetrable.

Lock Down Your PC
Protect your PC with the following four downloads and services, all [...]

A 17 Years Old Teen Hacker Pleads Of Crashing Sony PlayStation Site

2A 17 years of age boy admitted that he hacked the PlayStation site of Sony back in November, 2008. The boy, Greater Latrobe Senior High School student from Pennsylvania, pleaded that he took revenge on the site after being banned for cheating in a SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals tournament. He brought down the site for [...]

Warning: Be Careful About Searching Sea World Tragedy – Virus!

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Be careful guys and girls. The people who pass most of the time on the internet, be ware, hacker are floating around. And the latest medium of the hackers is “sea world tragedy”. Many of you already know about the tragedy and still searching for footage. But you could be attacked by viruses or malware [...]

Cryptome Releases Microsoft Criminal Handbook

1The controversial whistleblower web site Cryptome have been releasing sensitive government and corporate documents for almost 14 years now. The site has recently recently a controversial document titled Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, a guide for law enforcement detailing what personal data Microsoft has on its millions of users.

The information contained in the [...]

Tips To Simplify Dealing With Tech Support

2Nobody enjoys spending hours on the phone with tech support to get fixes when there is something wrong with the PC or the internet connection. But talking to tech support is an inevitable process that we all must go through sometime or another. The help people at PC World have come up with a list [...]

Researcher Says Hollywood Portrays Hackers Accurately

0After studying 50 hacker movies spanning over five decades, a researcher at the Dublin Institute of Technology has aid that when it comes to portraying hackers, Hollywood usually gets it right. In most Hollywood movies, as in real life, hackers aren’t teenaged whiz-kids. They’re professionals, over 30 years old, who work in IT. “Generally they’re [...]

Intel Says It Was Attacked By Hackers In January

1Intel recently reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it too was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack last month, at about the same time Google was allegedly attacked by Chinese hackers. Intel made the revelation in its annual report to the Commission filed on February 22.

“We regularly face attempts by others to [...]

A List Of Useful Web Services To Make Life Easier

0In today’s world where our productivity at work depends a lot on organizing our activities and saving time by speeding up routine chores, PC World’s list of some very useful web services can reduce your daily hassles and make life a little less stressful.

Read on for their list of problem solving web services:

Access Your Home [...]

Hacker Claims Windows 7 Safer Than Mac

0The organizer of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Aaron Portnoy, has claimed that the Windows 7 OS is more secure than Apple’s Snow Leopard. Portnoy, who is the lead of the security research team with 3Com TippingPoint, said “Safari will be the first to go. [Safari will] be on Snow Leopard, which isn’t on the same [...]

A series of online attacks on Google from China

0Two educational institutions in China, including one which is closely related Chinese military, have tried to attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations.
They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets and computer codes and capturing e-mail of Chinese human rights activists, may have begun as early as April, months earlier than [...]

How To Fix 15 Annoyances On The Web

1Surfing the web is an activity that nowadays few can go even a single day without. But there are some small annoying things on the web that we wish we could just get rid of, so we could go about our daily surfings in peace. The ever helpful people of PC World provide tips on [...]