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Dan Bernstein confirms DJBDNS security hole, pays $1,000

Dan J. Bernstein has acknowledged an exploitable security flaw in his djbdns software and has made good on a public security guarantee -- to pay $1000 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of the popular DNS name server. ...

Tags: Security Hole, DNS, Dan Bernstein, Dan J. Bernstein, Third-party DNS Service, Domain Names, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-06

MUlock 1.0 (Mac)

MUlock activates the screen locking feature of Mac OS 9's Multiple Users software, as if the computer has been idle for the number of minutes specified in the Multiple Users control panel.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dan Bernstein, MUlock, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-12-22

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News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

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

Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?

Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...

Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Web Office will be much different than Microsoft Office

There's been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of a web-based office lately, prompted by Nick Carr's excellent post entitled Office generations. In it he suggested the following timeline for office software: Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-09-17

LAUNCH of 'The Real Deal': Call for Web 2.0 companies with business plans!

ANNOUNCING a New CEO Interview Series: “THE REAL DEAL” at this Digital Micro-Markets Blog!What will you get when you read “The Real Deal” here? First-hand access to real-world Internet business analysis and the skinny on how business decisions are made, straight from the Web leaders making the decisions!From Web 2.0...

Tags: Digital Micro-Markets, &ldquo, THE REAL DEAL&rdquo

Blog posts 2006-09-06