To prove the feasibility of the technique, Kapela and Pilosov, both owners of small networking companies, collaborated with conference organizers to reroute all of Defcon's Los Vegas Internet traffic through Pilosov's company servers in New York.

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"Your PC can handle your entire city simulation without any help from the internet or EA's servers, " he wrote in a detailed explanation posted to the Pastie website.

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The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.

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Its modular design also means that it can easily expand from cheap consumer devices to big servers supporting the Internet's backbone.

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In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.

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As users proliferate, the servers that form the Internet's backbone will also come under more strain.

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The servers bridge the call to Skype's Internet network.

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Investigators were able to track down Mr. McFarlin after consulting with Apple investigators, who had been tracking the burglar's Internet connectivity after noticing a stolen iPad had been connected to the company's servers in mid-July.

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In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.

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