On January 25th, 2003 Slammer made it’s appearance rapidly, spreading to nearly 75,000 machines. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SQL Server and MSDE database, the worm quickly attacked the buffer overflow holes in those products. Thousands of companies and organizations suffered massive downtime because of their reliance on MS SQL and…
From an Apple press release: CUPERTINO, California—August 18, 2003—Apple today announced that it has begun shipping the two single processor models of its Power Mac® G5, the world’s fastest personal computer featuring the first 64-bit desktop processor and the industry’s first 1 GHz front-side bus. The dual 2.0 GHz Power…
From an AMD press release: SAN FRANCISCO — September 23, 2003 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today marked the next frontier in computing, introducing the world’s first and only Windows-compatible 64-bit PC processor – the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX processor – and paving the way for a jaw-dropping PC experience. The AMD…
The Sobig-F worm appeared in August of 2003, not long after the Blaster worm. It went down in history as the fastest spreading virus ever. Carrying it’s own internal SMTP engine, it was able to email copies of itself at an explosive rate.
The Blaster worm appeared in early August of 2003 and promptly infected millions of PCs because of a security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows OS. The hole allowed the worm to download itself to vulnerable systems, which meant it didn’t require any action by the user to infect the machine. It…
CNN article; February 9th, 1998 Military researchers have developed a new bomb that is guided by satellites instead of lasers so pilots can hit their targets even during cloudy weather. During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, pilots couldn’t always hit their targets with laser-guided bombs in cloudy weather because clouds…
Short for DVD-Rewritable, a re-recordable DVD format similar to DVD+RW. The data on a DVD-RW disc can be erased and recorded over numerous times without damaging the medium. DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM are supported by Panasonic, Toshiba, Apple Computer, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung, and Sharp.