Monthly Archives: September 2011

CloudOnomics

September 21, 2011 – 8:00 pm

By Ian Moyse Moore’s Law back in 1965 predicted silicon power would double every two years. But what its creator, Gordon E. Moore, couldn’t have predicted was the dramatic economies of scale the cloud would eventually bring to all of our lives. For one, it’s helped lead to a drop in price for essentials like [...]

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Mebromi: the first BIOS rootkit in the wild

September 13, 2011 – 6:44 am

By Marco Giuliani In the past few weeks a Chinese security company called Qihoo 360 blogged about a new BIOS rootkit hitting Chinese computers. This turned to be a very interesting discovery as it appears to be the first real malware targeting system BIOS since a well-known proof of concept called IceLord in 2007. The malware is called [...]

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