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Gartner issues false alarm on Microsoft WPA2 warning

Updated 6/2/05: If the confusion over the recent addition of four EAP authentication protocols to the WPA2 standard wasn’t already high enough, Gartner’s recent attempt to bring clarity to the matter has exacerbated the problem. The actual report in PDF form itself wasn't really too alarmist, but it was...

Tags: WPA2, EAP Authentication Protocols

Blog posts 2005-05-27

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Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk

Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at riskA little llarmist aren't we?Personally, I would not choose to store that information on a laptop in the first place. But you must have missed the part where it says:"The laptop was protected by a number of security measures, including start up password, operating...

Tags: Notebooks, Potential victim, Union leader, Deloitte LLP, laptop computer, security

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack

ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attackRemember: Use a good password!Yup - this is a reminder that you should use long passwords with punctuation and mixed case.And let's be honest, shall we? It's not just about "Governments, forensic and corporate users." The dark side is interested in...

Tags: SECURITY, NVidia Corp., GPU, Full WPA/WPA2, attack, password, ElcomSoft

Discussion threads 2008-10-12

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMwareFunny how they talk about the importance of interoperability when they donot have a dominant position. But, with Windows and Office, they are strangely not very interested in interoperability, and have to be dragged kicking and screaming to open up things like file formats and...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Lotus 123, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losers

Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losersYou left out Apple as a choiceI think this will appeal more to the people who where allready going to purchase an Apple laptop then a less expensive Dell or HP.It may hurt Apple a bit in that the margins I would imagine, will...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., notebook, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance

" Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how a data governance program defines the roles, responsibilities, and...

Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-09

Data Doctor Financial Accounting Software (Standard Edition) (exe)

Business financial accounting and billing software maintains financial operations and transaction records in an efficient manner. Software centralized the task of creating or modifying reports, tracking inventory details, creating invoice, and purchase order statements. Business and corporate users can access all accounting information in less time and efforts to manage...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Billing, Financial, Data Recovery Services, Bookkeeping Software, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M

Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...

Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

TRO hearing today on RealDVD

Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...

Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

eLab (exe)

eLab is a Laboratory Information Management System LIMS that improves sample throughput and reduces IT costs in a single compliant solution. You can implement eLab as a simple sample storage solution or implement its full functionality to empower users to take control of the management of tasks, workflows, and protocols....

Tags: eBioSys, eLab, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-07

SlimBrowser (exe)

Slim Browser is a compact tabbed browser with full unicode support. It includes pop-up blocker, automatic Web-form filler and spell checker. It let you open several sites at once with the support of site groups. It provides one-click access to search engines via pre-defined quicksearch entries. You can easily define...

Tags: built-In, FlashPeak, Program Interface, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed

Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissedEver wonder?Why Apple computers are so expensive and of such lower quality? because Apple is the whorst computer monopoly ever (like MS, but time 1000). Apple will do all it can including well known illegal activities to prevent competition and...

Tags: Software price, Apple Inc., MAC

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again

Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Spammer, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Web Science: The next academic hot spot

Will your computer science degree be replaced by a Web sciences one? It might as academics are increasingly dabbling with the study of the Web, but first a workable definition is needed. In a treatise in Scientific American's October issue, Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee make the...

Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Neocleus secure access

I'm doing my best to go through my VMworld notes and post on a few of the more interesting demonstrations seen there. While walking the trade show floor at VMworld, I saw an interesting presentation of how a type 1 hypervisor combined with isolated Windows virtual machine could add up...

Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Neocleus, Remote Access, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Defense-in-depth in practice

A long portion of my career in information security was spent as a security consultant. I would come into an engagement and either analyze data or an architecture and provide recommendations to the client on improvements they could make in their security posture. Maybe 9 times out of...

Tags: Layer, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Apple plugs gaping holes in Java for Mac

Apple today released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 with patches for a total of 25 documented security flaws that could expose Mac users to malicious code execution attacks. Two of the 25 flaws are specific to Apple and could be exploited to launch...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Programming Languages, Apple Mac OS X, Java, Desktops, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Thoughts on Microsoft Response Point

Thoughts on Microsoft Response PointPolitics of ProgrammingWhat has been so hard about being articulate and clear to the end user? Why, to this day, are arcane and obtuse references constantly popping up on Windows machines? It's a legacy of obfuscation that has come from a programming culture. This culture has...

Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., programmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Another online poker site caught cheating: UltimateBet

MSNBC outed Ultimate Bet last week as being under investigation for enabling certain users to cheat their regulars out of tens of millions of dollars. The cheat involved allowing certain customers were able to view the hole cards of opponents. Like other incidences of online poker fraud, this...

Tags: MSNBC, Poker, Litigation, Security, Web Site Development, Business Operations, Internet, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-23