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- Multi DBF Viewer-Editor (zip)
- This small program is a very easy to use instrument for viewing database files in DBF format. It is like the "dbview.exe" from Norton Commander, but that program was and still is for DOS operation only. DBFView is for Windows and supports all the usual Windows features.You can view multiple...
- Tags: Alexander Berezhnoy, DBFView, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Storage, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
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- News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Russia, Windows Security, Cyberattack, Outage, Georgia, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks outNicely doneI appreciate that you took the time to speak with the researcher who actually discovered the flaws.There are a couple of bloggers on ZDNET who always seem slant their "blogs" with grandiose claims against one platform or technology.I think...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows Vista, Alexander Sotirov, Microsoft Corp., security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Earlier today I published a lengthy blog post questioning some of the sensationalist conclusions raised in press coverage of a paper presented by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd at last week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. This afternoon, I received an e-mail from Sotirov, who says he was "horrified...
- Tags: Technique, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows XP, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Exploitation, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Oh dear. The Chicken Little contingent is out in full force. Break out your Kevlar helmets, everyone, because the sky is falling on Windows! At last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd presented a paper that outlined some new attack vectors they had...
- Tags: Black Hat, Attacker, Windows Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Defense, Memory Protection, Vulnerability Disclosure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this longBest security is to take computers off the NetFor my computers at home, there is now only one that has firewalled access to the Internet. My kids' computers DO NOT. My media server DOES NOT. The PC with my finance stuff and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, UAC, administrative right
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- So, in a stroke, two security researchers Mark Dowd of IBM and Alexander Sotirov or VMware at Black Hat have set browser security back 10 years and rendered Vista's security have been rendered useless. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Paper, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Data Execution Prevention, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Security, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...
- Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?Gates will be missedI believe Ray Ozzie would be a great replacement for Gates on the speech / giving a MS vision front. Ray speaks very well. Maybe Ballmer could make him make 6 or more speeches a year and so some light promotion work....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, M$ Needs
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- 2008 Pwnie Awards
- Don't forget to go and vote on the Pwnie Awards, which will happen at Black Hat Vegas again this year. I don't want to campaign for votes, but I wouldn't be pissed if some of my loyal readers out there voted for me, Billy Rios, Rob Carter, and John Heasman and...
- Tags: Category, Nomination, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way
- Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios. Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...
- Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
- Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi It has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm. Since then, a number of people have called Symantec out as being irresponsible for crying wolf and announcing the raising the ThreatCon without fully researching the vulnerability (Full...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Attack, Flash, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will
- Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There's been a lot of blog hacking going...
- Tags: Google Inc., Site, Hosting Company, Hacker, StorageMojo, Blogging, Security, Internet, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- WSJ cleverly coins 'Motorborg', creates jealous blogger
- The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Inrix, Inc., a Kirkland, Washington-based Microsoft spinoff that tracks speeds on 100,000 miles of US highway using data from GPS-enabled fleet vehicles, toll booths, road sensors...and citizens' mobile devices. The data is sold to a variety of companies (including MapQuest, Dash, and...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Sensor, Blogger, Dash, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Not to defend Microsoft, as kernel exploits that provide privileged access are terrible flaws, but we had an interesting discussion in the talkbacks where several people acted as if Microsoft was the only place that could've made such mistakes. Well, the proof is in the pudding that this is a common flaw...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Microsoft Word, Kernel, Debian, Flaw, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Intel releases 2.5 GHz, 45nm 'Yorkfield' Core 2 Quad processor
- In today's news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 "Yorkfield" processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHz front side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front...
- Tags: Quad Processor, Overclocking, Intel Corp., Q9300, Blogging, Processors, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
- Update 04/03/2008: I've updated the article as apparently the link to k2's blog was broken. Also, it's important to note that Derek Callaway was a part of this research and exploitation as well, and I neglected to mention that. So obviously our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows Vista, Exploit, Data Execution Prevention, Flaw, Nate, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- A firefighting beetle robot
- According to Popular Science, German researchers have designed firefighting robots mimicking beetles. The OLE robotic beetle (short for 'Offroad Löscheinheit' -- which means 'off-road extinguishing apparatus' in German) has been developed at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal. The OLE would be autonomous and guided by GPS, infrared and heat sensors and...
- Tags: OLE, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
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