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Chemical and Defense firms targeted in attack
Selasa, 15 November 2011
According to a report from Symantec, dozens of firms in the chemical industry were systematically attacked over a period of two to three months, by a group who started out targeting human rights organizations.
Symantec is calling the attacks Nitro. They started in July, ending about mid-September, and focused on social engineering.
Victims were sent emails containing a Trojan, delivered as meeting invites or security updates, depending on the target. The Trojan opened a backd...
Activision and Infinity Ward
Selasa, 15 November 2011
Given the seemingly immovable popularity of Activision’s bullet-fuelled Call of Duty series, the following slice of videogame news is likely to shock only those who’ve been living under a Nokia N-Gage since 2007.
Specifically, Activision and Infinity Ward’s newly released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 raked in a mind-boggling $400 million USD (6.5 million copies sold) during its first day of availability in the U.S. and Great Britain.
“We believe the ...
create rounded corners and drop shadows in CSS3
Jum`at, 11 November 2011
Whether it's HTML5 or CSS3, both are slowly and painfully becoming standards, but in the meantime, it turns out that there's much debate and contention about even the simplest of features.
Like rounded corners.
In the CSS3 spec, rounded corners are specified as border-radius: though it's implemented differently in the Mozilla family of browsers (including Firefox) than the Webkit (Safari) group.
What this means is that if you're running, say, Internet Explorer or an older ver...
Thailand Banjir, Pasokan Hard Disk Dunia Terganggu
Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011
KOMPAS.com - Banjir yang terjadi sejak pertengahan Juli lalu di Thailand membawa dampak yang signifikan terhadap industri komputer dunia, khususnya untuk produk notebook dan PC desktop. Bencana banjir Thailand terburuk selama 50 tahun terakhir ini telah memaksa penutupan ratusan pabrik yang berada di sekitar kota Bangkok.
Menurut catatan analisis Data Corp, dari ratusan pabrik ini beberapa di antaranya memproduksi sepertiga dari total produksi hard disk di negara tersebut, a...
Use Switch and Avoid Multi if-elseif statements
Selasa, 25 Oktober 2011
There are few coding practices that developers can adopt to improve
the performance of their PHP based projects. Better scripts execute
faster and reduce server load as well. Thus, reducing page load time.
So, the argument is how to write a better script and which script is
better. Some will argue that PHP is an interpreted language and has its
own limitations. I am listing a few of the performance tips; though some
are very common and are application to any programming...