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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2012
Issued: February 14, 2012
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This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for February 2012.

The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2012 can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms12-feb.

With the release of the bulletins for February 2012, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued on February 9, 2012.

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The world’s largest BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay, as reported previously, will stop linking to .torrent files shortly and TPB told TorrentFreak that one of the advantages to a “magnet site” is that it requires little bandwidth to host a proxy site. A proxy site is required as TPB is blocked in many countries, and is of course, going to increase. Think it can’t happen? Well, Pirate Bay user “allisfine” was intrigued by this idea, and has decided to find out just how small a copy of TPB would be. He told TorrentFreak:

I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy.

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VIA Technologies today announced the VIA EPIA-M910 Mini-ITX board, the latest dual core Mini-ITX board featuring one of the richest I/O sets available for a wide range of embedded applications including ATM, kiosks, POS, digital signage, healthcare and digital media applications. The VIA EPIA-M910 is available in both active and passive cooling configurations with the choice of either a performance oriented 1.6GHz VIA Nano X2 dual core processor or a fanless 1.0GHz VIA Eden X2 dual core processor and is paired with the VIA VX900 media system processor, which provides the ideal platform for today’s HD-intensive applications. <

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What if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what’s been called hyper-scale cloud networking?

“Hyper” is the term used generally for something almost unfathomably and exceptionally large. We might say that a regional group of airports is a small air transport network, a national one a larger network, a continental one a big network but the global air-transport system is a hyper network with hundreds of airports, thousands of planes, millions of flights a year and billions of passengers.

A hyper-scale Ethernet network will be global in scale and embrace tens of thousands of cables and switches, millions of ports, and trillions, perhaps quadrillions, of packets of data flowing across the network a year, possibly even more.

Depiction of Internet network.

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