The Copenhagen-based security company Secunia has put forward an alarming fact that basically more than 98% of Windows computers are facing at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack.
A study carried out by Secunia APS claims that 98.1% of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. There were no out-of-date programmes on only 1.9% of Window systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time.
The world’s first personal supercomputer has been developed by the Scientists, which would be 25 times faster than average PC. It is obviously a technological breakthrough that could introduce enormous speed to the next generation of home computers.
The name of the supercomputer is Tesla, which has been created by US-based Company NVIDIA. The supercomputer that looks more or less like an ordinary PC has been priced between 4,000 pounds and 8,000 pounds.
Bird Flu virus has spread to two more regions including Barpeta and Nalbari in lower Assam.
The fresh outbreak prompted the State Veterinary department to start the culling of thousands of chickens in these regions.
The samples, which were sent to laboratories in Bhopal, have tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza.
The State Government has ordered culling operations and Rapid Response Teams (RRT)s have already begun going from house-to-house asking the habitants to give away their poultry birds to them.
Indian equities ended the week below 9,000 mark due to strong selling pressure witnessed across IT, consumer durable, oil & gas and metal stocks.
The 30-share index BSE Sensex, which opened with a loss of 25.06 points at 9,204.69, on Friday, rallied for a short time but profit booking at higher levels brought it back into the negative terrain.
Among the sectoral indices, BSE Consumer durables and IT lost more than 4% each, Realty, Metal and Oil&gas declined over 3% each.
BSE Midcap and Smallcap index lost 1.02% and 0.25% respectively.