Malware in the Office, in the Sky and on the Phone

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and various federal agencies are ringing it in with a couple of slaps to the head and a kick or two to the shins. First, the Government Accountability Office issued a report that stated 24 major federal agencies have inadequate IT security.

AT&T Plays the 4G Card

With presales of the iPhone 4S reaching record levels, competition among the carriers is heating up. Sprint Nextel is reportedly going to offer an unlimited data plan. And AT&T? The carrier reportedly is hoping to secure approval from Apple to use a "4G" label on the signal bar for its iPhone 4S devices. It is unclear how much truth is in the rumors, which were based largely on a leaked memo.

Titan Starts Training for Supercomputing's World Cup

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded U.S. supercomputer manufacturer Cray a contract to upgrade its existing Jaguar supercomputer. The contract, which Cray pegs as worth $97 million, will cover a multi-phase process scheduled for completion in 2013. Cray will essentially rip out and replace Jaguar's existing processors with the latest AMD Opteron CPUs and Tesla graphics processing units from Nvidia. The resulting behemoth, which will be named "Titan," will have almost 300,000 cores and 600 terrabytes of memory.