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  • Distributed computing cracks Enigma code

    More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.

  • Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

    The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.

  • Distributed computing goes corporate

    Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realise how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.

  • Sophos blocks SETI @ work

    Antivirus firm Sophos has updated its application control software so IT managers can block distributed applications such as SETI@home from being used on corporate desktops.

  • SETI@home needs more PC power

    Despite successfully running for many years, astronomers behind the SETI@home project are looking for more computing power as they ramp up the amount of data they look at. And they want to borrow your system's spare time to do it.

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    Admins stuck between a hack and a zero-day

    The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?

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  • Distributed computing goes corporate

    Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realise how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.

  • Grid computing boosts hacker network

    A worldwide hacker confederation is setting up a grid of processing power to crack e-commerce passwords. If you think this is crazy, Wayne Rash says "think again."

  • What on earth are grids anyway?

    What exactly is grid computing? Here are answers to everything you wanted to know about the technology but were afraid to ask.

  • Distributed computing: Power grid

    Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.

  • How to attack spammers in your sleep

    Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.

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  • IBM, screensaver to tackle smallpox

    IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate anti-smallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday.

  • PC army tackles Xbox security code

    A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.

  • Tech Guide: Software on the cheap

    Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.

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