Windows 2003 and XP vulnerable to LAND DoS attack

LAND attack: Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition. Which is funny. The last time the LAND attack was seen was about 8 years ago. It’s a trivial remote DoS and you’d think that even Read more about Windows 2003 and XP vulnerable to LAND DoS attack[…]

Ig Nobel Prizes

Well, we have the Darwin Awards, but this lesser known honour is bestowed on those who have carried out some seriously improbable research. Previous winners: The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos. Well done, that man!

Cell architecture explained

Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been quietly developing a new vector-based processing architecture which promises to trash anything Intel and AMD have up their sleeves. This guy has read the patent applications and makes some predictions on what we’re going to be seeing in the PS3. http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html If this is too hard, then Penny Arcade Read more about Cell architecture explained[…]