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Intel Investigating Sale of Fake Core I7 Chip
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By Sumner Lemon, March 8, 2010
Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there. On Friday, hardware site HardOCP reported that one of its forum members received a counterfeit processor from Newegg, an online seller of computers and components. Instead of a processor, he found a fake processor and a plastic mold of a heat sink and fan. The fake processor, sold as a standalone or "boxed" chip, came with an instruction manual comprised of blank pages. In addition, sticker on the outside of the box misspelled the word 'socket' as 'sochet' and other words on the box were spelled incorrectly -- subtle but clear indications that the contents inside were not genuine. It was not immediately clear how the counterfeit chip ended up for sale at Newegg. HardOCP reported that when notified of the problem, Newegg shipped a genuine processor to the affected customer. Newegg could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Beware Windows XP's F1 Help Bug
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By Larry Seltzer 03.01.10
SEC Security Research has disclosed and Microsoft has confirmed a vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8 that could allow remote code execution. Only Windows XP is vulnerable. According the the advisory from iSEC, the attacker needs to elicit some cooperation from the user: The attack pops up a Windows messagebox (a simple dialog box with a button) loaded with VBScript. If the user presses F1, IE will load an attacker-supplied .HLP file with winhlp32.exe. iSEC also notes a stack overflow vulnerability in winhlp32 that they could use. Microsoft's description of the issue basically supports all the claims by iSEC and adds some more facts. This is only an issue on XP because afterwards Microsoft recognized that .HLP files are an endless fount of vulnerabilities. HLP files are now among what Microsoft calls "unsafe file types." Windows Server 2003 could be affected, but not in the default Enhanced Security Configuration for web browsing.
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Sony: Keep PS3 off until clock bug is fixed
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By AHARON ETENGOFF Mon 1st Mar 2010
Sony has asked PS3 owners to keep their consoles off until an enigmatic bug plaguing the system's clock functionality is fixed. "As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS," confirmed Sony spokesperson Patrick Seybold. "We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data." According to Seybold, the bug is likely to have caused a number of errors, including:
System date reset to Jan 1, 2000.
Error message - "You have been signed out of PlayStation Network, (8001050F).”
Error message - "Failed to install trophies. Please exit your game."
Error message - "The current date and time could not be obtained. (8001050F).
Downloads - Users are not able to play back certain rental video downloaded from the PlayStation Store before the expiration date.
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Original ION 2 chipset canceled
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by Fuad Abazovic, 24 February 2010
Nvidia had plans for a chip that we keep calling ION 2, but the original version of the chip was apparently canceled back in the summer of 2009. At the begging of the year Nvidia planned to launch a new chipset - GPU and likely brand it as ION 2. This chipset was supposed to have 40 shaders, more than two times the number or the Original ION and it was supposed to be substantially faster. Since Nvidia came to some sort of silent ceasefire with Intel, this chip with 40 Shaders will never make it to ION 2. The product was codenamed MCP89 and it might show up on some Intel-based chipset a with high possibility of launch at Cebit next week.
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Apple Tries a Second Time to Fix 27" iMac Issues With Firmware Update
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Cupertino hopes second times the charm with its graphical woes
By Jason Mick - February 2, 2010
Apple's fancy new 27-inch iMac has an attractive screen and decently powerful hardware incorporated into a sleek body. Unfortunately, some customers' experiences with the computer have not been so “magical” thanks to a variety of problems including cracked screens, non-booting machines, yellowed screens, and graphical issues. Apple already tried to address its graphical woes with a firmware update in December. However, many users in the company's support forums reported that the update did not fix their machines' poor graphics performance. Apple has since delayed shipments of the larger iMacs, perhaps to try to buy time. Now Apple has released a second firmware update and is hoping the second time is the charm when it comes to graphics problems. The new update is dubbed "27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0", not to be confused with the similar-sounding previous updated named "27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0". Available here, the update is only 294 KB, and is available for any Apple operating system Mac OS X 10.6.2 or later (all the new iMacs ship with Snow Leopard, so its unlikely you'd find one with something else).
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Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack
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By PC World Feb. 3, 2010
Early Tuesday, Twitter says it had to reset the passwords of a small number of accounts compromised in an external phishing attack. "As part of Twitter's ongoing security efforts, we reset passwords for a small number of accounts that we believe may have been compromised offsite," Twitter wrote in a prepared statement. Twitter said it took the security action because of a "combination of multiple bad acts." One, it believes, is accounts being compromised by Twitter users signing up for what it described as "get followers fast schemes" luring people to a non-Twitter site. A Twitter spokesperson also said it suspects this third-party site "could have allowed hackers to gain access to email addresses and passwords. Those Twitter users who use the same email addresses and passwords could be affected."
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Also Read This --> Phisher Booby-Trapped Sites to Gain Twitter Access |
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AMD confirms grey-screen crash
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By Gareth Halfacree 1st February 2010
AMD has publicly confirmed reports of crashes with its ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics processors, which result in users systems displaying a series of grey or coloured lines. As reported over on Tom's Hardware, the company has advised customers experiencing the bug that the issue isn't a hardware bug but a software one exacerbated by an update issued by Microsoft for Windows 7. Despite this explanation, users running other versions of Windows are complaining of the same issue - and in the release notes for the latest version of theATI drivers, Catalyst 10.1, the grey screen crash is noted as an issue which affects all versions of Windows. Company spokesman Dave Erskine has stated that "only a small number of ATI Radeon HD 5800 series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series cards are exhibiting the behaviour" and promises that " the [Radeon] team is testing a driver hotfix and initial tests indicate that it resolves the issue."
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Apple patches 12 Mac bugs in Flash, SSL
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By Gregg Keizer January 19, 2010
Apple on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Leopard and Snow Leopard, including seven in Adobe Flash Player and one in the protocol used to secure Internet traffic. Security update 2010-001, the first from Apple this year, is noticeably smaller than the monster issued last November that fixed almost 60 flaws. The seven fixes for Flash Player, Apple's first update to the popular media player since September, brought the program up to version 10.0.42.34, the same edition that Adobe shipped Dec. 8, 2009, for Windows and Linux. Adobe tagged six of the seven vulnerabilities as critical in its own security advisory last month. Because Apple bundles Flash Player with Mac OS X, it regularly distributes patches for the Adobe software, at times months after the latter has shipped patches. The six-week gap between Adobe's issuing fixes and Apple delivering them this time was similar to the time it took Apple to update Flash in the summer of 2009.
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Dell Mini 9 Explodes, Burns Hole in Floor
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by Jane McEntegart December 22, 2009
Netbooks are small, affordable, basic computers. They don't run hot enough to warrant cooling solutions like the ones found in full size laptops. Or do they? One Consumerist reader says her netbook nearly burnt her house down. Hannah said she unplugged her Dell Mini 9, brought it downstairs and laid it on the floor. Hannah says she heard a popping noise as the laptop began to hiss and sizzle while and the room started to fill up with smoke. Hannah contacted the Consumerist who put her in touch with Dell. Dell paid to have the netbook FedExed to them and sent her a replacement, upgraded laptop for free. Dell said its Forensic Electrical Engineers had received the laptop but added that the company said it had no other information as to what may have caused the malfunction. The company promised it would sort things out, though. "We take any report like this very seriously, and, as a matter of policy, our safety teams investigate thoroughly following any issue like this," said Dell. "We will get to the bottom of this."
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Apple Customers Report Flawed iMacs
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By Antone Gonsalves December 14, 2009
Apple customers are complaining of problems with the 27-inch iMac, including flickering, cracked, or yellow-tinged screens. More than 80 pages of complaints were listed on Apple's iMac support forum on Monday. The company did not respond to an InformationWeek request for comment in time for this writing. However, resellers have reported to media delays in shipments of the 27-inch iMacs due to screen problems. On its Web site, Apple says orders for its largest all-in-one computer won't ship for two weeks. A spokesperson for the company told PC Magazine that the company was "working hard to fulfill orders as quickly as possible." Apple did not acknowledge that there were any iMac flaws. Nevertheless, the company's support forum indicated that flickering screens were among the most widespread problems. Some customers posted video of the problem on YouTube. "My iMac arrived 2 days ago and yesterday I saw some flickering with sections going black for an instant, then one case where the whole screen went black momentarily," customer MarkyJ reported. Others reported unpacking their new iMac only to find a cracked screen. "I unpacked the i7 iMac just as you did," Macfrenzie said in response to another customer's complaint. "Box upright, and lifted it from the bottom edge of the screen panel -- on the aluminum base edge. The bottom packing foam on the bottom corners came up with the iMac. When I removed the foam -- then you see the crack. The crack is below the foam line border which leads me to think it's a production line defect."
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Also Read This --> Apple iMac (Fall 2009) Issues: View Data |
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