Transmeta Ships New Chip With Antivirus Technology
477975
Newest Efficeon processor also offers higher frequency using less power.
109804
Transmeta Corp. has begun shipping its second-generation Efficeon processors, the TM8800 series.
523422
Transmeta Corp. has begun limited shipments of the next generation of its Efficeon processor, which is being built on the 90-nanometer manufacturing process.
23807
Orion Multisystems today unveiled a workstation that takes high-performance computing and puts it on the desktop using low-power processors from Transmeta and an innovative motherboard design.
445014
CNET News.com reports today that IBM will start shipping its PCs with a new chip which stores passwords and computer&#39;s identity in silicon, making it harder for hackers to access.
448474
Transmeta last week announced it had started shipping limited quantities of its x86-compatible Efficeon TM8800 processor, a low-powered CPU fabbed on 90-nanometer silicon.
367334
Toshiba revealed a new high-performance chip aimed at multimedia applications such as video processing in consumer devices.
693201
Transmeta has licensed its LongRun2 power management technology to Fujitsu, the second customer to purchase the rights to use the technology, Transmeta said Thursday.
562574
New chip will cut the time required to transfer content onto those devices.
741740
A new variant of the MyDoom virus is designed to launch a denial-of-service attack against antivirus software maker Symantec, according to security firm Sophos.
360875
The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors&#39; computers, security researchers said Thursday.The download section of AvSoft&#39;s S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor AVG. &quot;They let one of their pages get hit by an iFrame injection,&quot; he said. &quot;It shows that anyone can be a victim.... It&#39;s hard to protect Web servers properly.&quot;The technique used on the site has been seen in thousands of similar hacks over the past few months. The attackers open an invisible iFrame Window within the victim&#39;s browser, which redirects the client to another server. That server, in turn, launches attack code that attempts to install malicious software on the victim&#39;s computer.The malicious software is a variant of the Virut virus family.The iFrame pages are commonly used by Web developers to insert content into their Web pages, but because it is possible to create an invisible iFrame window, the technology is often misused by hackers as a way to silently redirect victims to malicious Web sites.AvSoft, based in New Delhi, sells an antivirus product called SmartCOP and has sold a second antivirus product called Smartdog. The company, which is not well-known in the U.S., also specializes in recovering data lost due to virus attacks. The company could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon.That data recovery service could come in handy for some, as Virut is known as a &quot;parasitic infector&quot; virus that is extremely difficult to remove. &quot;It infects all of your programs on your local hard drives, and then it starts hitting your network drives as well the first time you run,&quot; Thompson said.Fortunately, the malware used to install Virut exploits only well-known bugs, meaning that users who are running antivirus software on fully patched systems will probably not be infected by the attack in its current state, security experts say.Nobody knows how the malware got onto the Web site in the first place. News of the hack was reported on the Full Disclosure security discussion list on Thursday.McAfee Security Research Manager Dave Marcus believes that the site was compromised by exploiting a Web programming error, most likely in the site&#39;s SQL or PHP code. Security experts say that criminals have written automated programs that scour the Web for these types of flaws and then automatically infect sites, making this an increasingly common problem.
469748
(InfoWorld) - Via Technologies plans to develop PC motherboards that are even smaller than theÂ business card-sized Mobile ITX productÂ it announced on Tuesday. "In another year or two we will come out with even smaller form factors," Wenchi Chen, Via's CEO, promised at the Via Technology Forum, which is being held alongside the Computex exhibition in Taipei. Chen used his keynote to unveil the Mobile ITX board developed by Via. Measuring 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm, the tiny motherboard pushes the limits of what's possible using currently available components. Over time, the integration of components, such as combining the CPU and chip set inside a single package to conserve space, will allow Via to shrink motherboard sizes further. "The single CPU chip will happen," Chen said. Via is a distant third in the microprocessor market, trailing far behind Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. But the company has found a small and growing niche in the market for low-power processor designed for small computers. Four or five years ago, that primarily meant small desktop computers based on Via's Mini-ITX motherboards, which measure 17 cm by 17 cm. But now hardware makers are putting Via's chips into small mobile devices. Samsung ElectronicsÂ last year became the first top-tier vendor to embrace Via's mobile chips, putting them inside its Q1 ultramobile PC. Since then, Hewlett-Packard has used Via's chips in a low-power desktop PC for China, and a string of vendors have announced portable computers based on them. One of those companies is OQO, which uses a Via processor in its OQO model 02 ultramobile computer, which it bills as the smallest Windows Vista computer on the market. Other ultramobile devices that use Via's processors include theÂ NanoBook reference designÂ announced Tuesday, and Giga-byte Technology's U60, which was sold in Taiwan through a partnership with Chunghwa Telecom, which bundled the device with its 3.5G mobile service. "It sold out in the first 20 minutes, faster than anything they'd experienced," Chen said. And more is to come. Over the next six months, Via will announce deals with more vendors for ultraportable devices based on its chips, Chen said. Â
434666
Chipmaker announces new chipset and reference design for consumer devices and PCs.
420212
Anti-virus company SimWorks International said it discovered a new virus for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system. The company said the new Metal Gear.
236872
Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer&#39;s hard drive to be read on startup, then makes changes to the Windows kernel, making it hard for security software to detect it.Criminals have been installing Trojan.Mebroot, known as a master boot record rootkit, since mid-December, and were able to infect nearly 5,000 users in two separate attacks, staged on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, according to Verisign&#39;s iDefense Intelligence Team. In order to install the software on a victim&#39;s computer, attackers first lure them to a compromised Web site, which then launches a variety of attacks against the victim&#39;s computer in hopes of finding a way to run the rootkit code on the PC.Once installed, the malware gives attackers control over the victim&#39;s machine.The group behind this latest rootkit is the same one responsible for the Torpig Trojan, and it is believed to have already installed more than 250,000 Trojan programs, iDefense said in a report on the rootkit published Monday.The interesting thing about Trojan.Mebroot is that it installs itself on the master boot record (MBR). This is the first sector of the computer&#39;s hard drive and it is the place the computer goes to first whenever it wants to boot up the operating system. &quot;Basically, if you can control the MBR, you can control the operating system and therefore the computer it resides on,&quot; wrote Symantec researcher Elia Florio in a blog posting on Trojan.Mebroot.The criminals are using several different versions of this attack code, some of which are not currently being detected by some antivirus products, iDefense said.&quot;At the moment the AV detection is hit and miss across the board, however in the last day a number of vendors have added detection for it already,&quot; said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with nCircle Network Security. &quot;As for penetration, so far many people are showing it as having a low overall distribution. The concern is that the group which may be preparing to distribute the rootkit is well-prepared.&quot;Malicious software that infected the master boot record was common during the MS-DOS era, but it has not been used much in attacks in recent years.In 2005, however, researchers at eEye Digital Security gave a talk at the Black Hat security conference, showing how a rootkit could hide itself on the MBR. This Trojan.Mebroot software is derived from that code, iDefense said.Getting this kind of malicious software to work reliably is a technical challenge, and there have generally been easier ways for the bad guys to take over PCs in recent years, said Marc Maiffret, an independent security researcher who was chief technology officer at eEye when the code was first developed.Attackers were given a hand last year, however, when researchers at NV Labs published a proof of concept MBR rootkit.Maiffret said that while we may soon see more of these MBR rootkits, &quot;it won&#39;t take long for all the antivirus companies to react.&quot;&quot;It&#39;s not some new attack vector that&#39;s going to be hard to prevent,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s just something that people haven&#39;t really paid attention to.&quot;
24343
LAS VEGAS -- Later this month, Transmeta will announce the results of an internal evaluation of its business model that could signal the company's gradual exit from microprocessor sales.
391379
(InfoWorld) - Via Technologies has developed a processor that consumes a maximum of 1 watt of power and is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications. The latest Eden ULV chip was announced on Thursday at the Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei, where customers showed off systems based on the chip. Previously, the lowest power chip in the Eden lineup was the 1GHz Eden ULV, which consumes a maximum of 3.5 watts. The 500MHz version consumes 0.1 watt of power in idle mode. Like other Via processors, the 500MHz Eden ULV processor is based on the same x86 instruction set found in CPUs from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and is capable of running Windows or Linux. But instead of desktop PCs or laptops, the new chip is intended for embedded applications, like point-of-sales systems, thin-client computers, set-top boxes, and security systems. The chip uses the same Esther processor core found in Via's line of C7 processors. The latest Eden ULV chip, which is manufactured using a 90-nanometer process, is paired withÂ Via's CX700 chip set, which combines both the Northbridge and Southbridge chips inside a single package to conserve space in a computer. The CX700 consumes up to 3.5 watts, but system makers can reduce this by disabling some of the chipset's functions, such as USB ports or the SATA interface for hard drives. Via, which is a distant third in the CPU market behind Intel and AMD, has long championed the development of cheap, low-power processors that can operate without elaborate heatsinks or fans. These chips allow hardware makers to build devices that are smaller, quieter, and cost less than most PCs.