Google attacks traced to Chinese schools

Recent cyber attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to a top Chinese university as well as a school with ties to the Chinese military, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people involved in the investigation.

Those people told the Times that the Chinese schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School.

They said the attacks may have started as early as April 2009 - earlier than previously thought.

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Kingston Ships 256GB USB to the U.S.

Kingston's DataTraveler 300 offered customers 256GB of flash storage on a single pen drive, but it was never officially offered in the United States. Today, Kingston is finally satisfying the capacity dreams of Americans with the introduction of the DataTraveler 310.

What's wild is that 256GB is large even when you're talking SSDs; and to see this size in the palm of your hand in the form of a USB drive is almost unbelievable.

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Google responds to Buzz user feedback

Google has promised to make changes to its Buzz social networking tool just two days after launching the service.

The company said in a blog post that it had listened to user feedback, particularly in terms of user privacy, and will make a number of alterations.

Google has received almost nine million posts and comments about Buzz, and is receiving 200 posts a minute from mobile phones alone.

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Huawei boasts 600 Mbit/s wireless data transfer

Telecoms equipment maker Huawei has claimed a world record for the fastest data transfer in a demonstration of its new LTE-Advanced technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The 600 Mbit/s speeds are 20 times faster than existing commercial 3G networks, and are expected to meet the bandwidth requirements of data-heavy applications. Huawei said that a 4GB DVD could be downloaded in one minute.

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Operation Titstorm hits the streets

Operation Titstorm will hit the streets of Australian cities in a "peaceful protest" against mandatory internet censorship this Saturday.

Dubbed 'Project Freeweb', the protest is organised by members of hacker group Anonymous, which took credit for last week's prolonged DD0S attack on Australian Government websites.

Events are planned in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle and Canberra at various times on 20 February. More than ten members of Anonymous are expected to attend each event.

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Scientists build sensor networks for your missing pens

CSIRO researchers have developed miniature sensors that track lab equipment, coffee mugs and staplers in the office.

Called Fleck Nano, the sensors build on CSIRO's existing Fleck technology that is being commercially produced for monitoring cows on farms.

Fleck sensors collect data like location and temperature. They form an ad-hoc mesh network, and communicate with static nodes and each other via radio waves.

CSIRO ICT Centre researcher Phil Valencia said they were similar to active RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which also transmit signals autonomously.

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Anonymous blasts government sites for the second day

Hackers continued to bombard the Australian Parliament House website with traffic for a second straight day as part of Operation Titstorm.

A spokesman for the Attorney-General's department confirmed the attack "continued to affect the availability of the Parliament House website.

"Visitors to this site are receiving an error message stating that the service is unavailable," the spokesman said.