Police arrest Dutchman for alleged Spamhaus Web attacks

Authorities in Barcelona have arrested a Dutchman for his alleged involvement with one of the Web's biggest cyberattacks, the BBC reported today.

Spanish police detained a 35-year-old man believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch hosting firm Cyberbunker. Officials are making plans for his transfer to the Netherlands.

It was widely reported previously that Cyberbunker, a site hosting company, was behind the multiple Web attacks on Spamhaus, an antispam organization. The attack -- called a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack -- involved overloading Spamhaus' severs with requests. It also slowed down the Internet for part of Europe, spurring the security firm fighting the attacks to call it "the DDoS that almost broke the Internet."

Police arrest Dutchman for alleged Spamhaus Web attacks

Want the most reliable Windows PC? Buy a Mac (or maybe a Dell) | ZDNet

Want the most reliable Windows PC? Buy a Mac (or maybe a Dell) | ZDNet: "Summary: A new report from Soluto uses data from its massive online database of PC crashes, hangs, and performance metrics to identify the 10 most reliable Windows PCs you can buy today. Surprisingly, a MacBook Pro is at the top of the list. Even more surprising is who's not included."

 

 

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Google execs' 'New Digital Age' resists cyber-siren song | Internet & Media - CNET News

book review Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen are more sober than starry-eyed in this worthwhile look at how a pervasive Internet changes censorship, privacy, identity, government, and war.

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Living with Chromebook: Giving Google's OS a second chance

Anyone needing proof that the post-PC era is real need only consult the recent sales figures:traditional PC sales are down 14 percent year over year, even as sales of tablets and smartphones -- mostly using Apple's iOS and Google's Android -- become more ubiquitous.

But even as Android adoption continues to flourish, Google has another horse in the race: Chrome OS. Chrome's mission statement is simple: With everything moving to "the cloud," why have a heavy, expensive Windows or Mac operating system acting as a middleman? Why not just have the browser be the OS? And that's precisely the reason it shares a name with Google's increasingly popular Web browser.

Living with Chromebook: Giving Google's OS a second chance

The Chromebook is an excellent second computer.  It is simply a Chrome browser boxed in a netbook computer without the downside of netbooks.  It is fast, light, very portable and useful.  I can post videos to blogs which I cannot do with my iPad.   It could never be my main computer but it works very well as a second computer. My 15 inch MacBook Pro is my main comouter but I do not want to bang it around carrying it to places other than the college where I teach.

The Samsung 3 is half the price of the iPad.  You get two years of 100GBs of Google Drive storage which is worth $120.00.  You also get 10 Go Pass airline Internet free coupons which are worth $100.00.  These. Computers are unbeatable for the price.

John H. armwood

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