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- ConsentEASE (zip)
- ConsentEASE is a unique software that generates personalized informed consents for surgeries and medical procedures. Can be used for any specialty and any procedure. Just click and print. Avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes. Failure to obtain an adequate informed consent can result in a claim of battery, medical negligence and...
- Tags: Procedure, Consent, ConsentEASE.com, ConsentEASE, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-03-18
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- A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability
- True to form, Billy Rios promised a more in depth look at the MSFA2008-35 vulnerability which is another protocol handler flaw in Firefox 3. As previously reported here, this was another protocol handler flaw that led to arbitrary remote command execution, and is especially dangerous since it can be deployed...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Protocol Handler, Firefox3, Security Decision, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Silverlight suit: Microsoft's conduct is "unlawful" and "willful"
- Video footage of the Summer Olympics at nbcolympics.com likely won't be compromised by a lawsuit filed by Gotuit Media against Microsoft earlier this month. The suit won't even go before a judge in San Francisco Federal Court until Oct. 10, some six weeks after the closing ceremonies of the games...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Ounce Labs finds 2 security vulnerabilities in Spring framework
- Code inspector Ounce Labs has identified two vulnerabilities in the open source Spring framework that exposes their enterprise applications to would-be hackers and hijackers. The two issues, ModelView Injection and Data Submission to Non-Editable Fields, affect only the MVC module of the Spring framework, which is used to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Framework, Ounce Labs, Spring, Security, Operational Planning, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Keeping the web open, by letting the EU deal with things
- Privacy International have said that Google's new Street View tool could breach data protection laws if people's faces are shown, according to the BBC, whereas the creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has made it clear that the success of the web has been because it's open for...
- Tags: Imagery, Google Inc., Web, European Commission, Europe, Street View, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Congress looks at next-gen ad networks
- The Center for Democracy and Technology will testify Wednesday about the privacy concerns over ad networks like NebuAd, which has come under fire over a deal with Charter Communications to deploy user-tracking technology, ChannelWeb reports. "For years, Web sites have entered into agreements with advertising...
- Tags: Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, Ad Network, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Why your text messages are not private
- The media, including your correspondent, reported last week that the Ninth Circuit decision in Quon v Arch clearly established an employee's right of privacy in his text messages, even on an employer-issued pager. The court said that a police department that looked through an officer's text message...
- Tags: Text Message, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home dailyReally? What does Windowssend to MS everyday?IP address?What time you were using the product?What exact version number you were using?If you are using any of the plugins or addons sent in the disabled list?Total number of active users of their software?Problem isother companies like Apple...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird phone home, phone home, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Thunderbird, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- AP backs down on blogging policy
- AP backs down on blogging policyAP backs down on blogging policyWhile it's important that bloggers respect the intellectual property rights of those we quote, it's of equal importance that AP and others recognize the fact that we help drive viewers to their sites by quoting their articles in our rantings...
- Tags: Intellectual property, blogging policy, blogging, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- 9th Circuit: Employees' text messages are private
- In a major case marking out the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment in the electronic age, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that employers can't read employees' text messages if they're sent through an outside service. They can't even read email unless it's stored on the employers' servers....
- Tags: Electronic Communication, Arch Wireless, Online Communications, E-mail, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Autorun Manager (OSAM) (msi)
- "OSAM" Online Solutions Autorun Manager is a tool for controlling the 'cleanliness' of components and applications that are automatically loaded or started under certain conditions without user's consent."OSAM" provides an easy one-click way of obtaining detailed information about the components that are run automatically at the system start and can...
- Tags: Online Solutions, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Components, Security
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records
- Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer recordsData lost AGAIN.............What has me curious is whether or not the information ON the tapes is encrypted, whether it be residing in database files, flat files or whatever? This "data at rest" all should be stored in encrypted formats.........http://whistlersear.wordpress.comLost? Yeah right!Its always...
- Tags: Financial services, NetBackup, Bank of NY, bank
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time
- Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this timeSimpler ideaThe problem with UAC is not really how it works to protect potentially vulnerable areas of the OS, it's that tons of applications NEED to do potentially OS-threatening things in order to work as an everyday course of business.If an app wants...
- Tags: UAC, Please get UAC, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time
- Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software vents, intelligently, about Windows Vista's UAC conundrum: UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time — it creates the "cry wolf" problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Permission, Window, Control Panel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Construction, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Why Apple must fix Safari 'carpet bombing' flaw immediately
- Apple makes a big deal -- and lots of funny commercials -- around the security profile of its products. On the Safari download site, the boast is that users get "worry-free Web browsing on any computer" because, in Cupertino's words, "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one."...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Flaw, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
- Google hosting malware? Google says they were!If Google is not immune to this stuffThen how is anyone else EVER going to be, who have much less experience, manpower, etc. than Google?RE: Google hosting malware? Google says they were!I just used the link in the article to test yahoo.com. Here is...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, Google Inc., past 90-day, hosting malware, Google Says, malicious software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
- Google isn't hosting malware anymore, but according to a tool they provide that lets you check up on any domain, their own google.com at one point was indeed hosting malware software that is installed on a users machine without their consent. After doing some digging, Tony Ruscoe found that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Domain, Malware, Hosting Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
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