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A new spam campaign is targeting a financial transfer system that handles trillions of dollars in transactions annually and has proved to be a fertile target of late for online fraudsters.
The spam messages pretend to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), a U.S. nonprofit association that oversees the Automated Clearing House system [...]

Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it’s experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.
It wants to improve on the performance of using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) by minimizing latency. For the protocol to work, the browser and the web server [...]

A just-published Apple patent application for hand-writing recognition on pen-based computers has re-ignited speculation the company will soon unveil a tablet device. But if that’s Apple’s plan, the company may be in a furious race with Microsoft, which is leaking and hinting at details of an innovative small tablet device, Courier, now in development.
Technically, the [...]

WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing.
Available as of November 16, the platform features the company’s Cloud Virtual Machines; Cloud Connectors, for secure cloud services; and multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service.
[ Last week, a Unisys executive let slip that cloud computing can save money by eliminating U.S. jobs. ]
WSO2 Cloud [...]

Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti, and Porsche.
Using Windows 7 themes — collections of backgrounds, borders and audio elements — advertisers will be able to brand the desktop, Microsoft said.
[ Get InfoWorld's 21-page hands-on look at the new [...]

Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet’s DNS, making it easier for hackers to launch DDoS attacks against their victims.
According to research set to be released in the next few days, part of the problem is blamed on the growing number of consumer devices [...]

Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 license.
Microsoft representative Peter Gali confirmed in a blog post that the tool does include [...]

AWS (Amazon Web Services) unveiled this week an SDK (software development kit) intended to make it easier for developers to build Microsoft .Net applications that can access the AWS platform for cloud computing.
The free AWS SDK for .Net includes the AWS .Net Library, featuring “developer-friendly” APIs for .Net that hide low-level plumbing associated with programming [...]

Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the firewall.
In a security advisory , Microsoft acknowledged that a bug in SMB (Server Message Block), a Microsoft-made network file- and print-sharing protocol, could be [...]

The recent formal approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. In the next three to five years, the Wi-Fi experience will be very different from today.
The huge 11n performance jump — to 300Mbps data rate and roughly 100-150Mbps throughput — will become [...]