10 best new features of Windows Server 8

With Windows Server 8, Microsoft has outdone itself, from a revamped UI to hundreds of new features, including vastly improved virtualization management

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Turkish Hackers Strike Websites With DNS Hack

A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS, and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers.

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Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a “depraved criminal” was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors’ lives into a living nightmare.

Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.

His motive was to get back at his new neighbors after they told the police he’d kissed their 4-year-old son on the lips.

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Fix, Repair Windows 7 When It Does Not Boot

Whenever a new update is available for Windows, then the changes which we can detect easily are the changes which can be easily observed in the appearance of the Windows. There are some of the changes which are not visible at first but then slowly you will come to know regarding. Initially for all the version of Windows you would need an installation media to repair the version of Windows on your system. In this post we will tell you about some of the one of the updated remedied in Windows 7 with the help of which you can easily get your Windows repaired without any help of an installation media.

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Welcome to a Faster Web

The first commercial deployment of SPDY, a protocol designed by Google to make websites faster, launches today.

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On June 8th (the World IPv6 Day)

June 8th: the day your phone won’t stop ringing Wednesday, May 04, 2011


On June 8th (the World IPv6 Day) you’ll see Facebook, Google and a number of other web sites reachable over IPv4 and IPv6 (more accurately: the DNS records for their web sites will have both A and AAAA records). No problem ... unless your users have misconfigured workstations and you haven’t deployed IPv6 throughout your network yet (not many have).

Users with broken IPv6 connectivity will experience long delays connecting to major public web sites. Their workstations will try to reach the content over IPv6 first and will have to experience a TCP-level timeout before retrying to get the same content over IPv4. Guess whose phone will ring ... and what the problem description will be ;)
Expecting everyone to have IPv6 connectivity sorted out throughout the enterprise network before June 8th is ludicrous, but you (and your network) have to be prepared for dual-stack world:
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Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots Leaked

Some screenshots of the successor to Windows 7 - Windows 8 - has been leaked earlier this week. According to the leaked screen shots, it looks the welcome screen has been heavily inflienced by Metro UI, which first made an appearance in Windows Phone 7. Link