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- Patches in ten f***ing days? Not really, says Mozilla
- Mozilla has moved swiftly to put the kibosh on late-night chatter that it can turn around patches for security flaws within ten days.The "ten f-ing days" boast came directly from Mozilla Director of Ecosystem Development Mike Shaver during a Black Hat party conversation with hacker Robert "RSnake" Hansen.We showed up,...
- Tags: Security, Patch Management, Mozilla Corp., Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Beware of that man between you and your Google Desktop
- Last month, I wrote a piece about Robert Hansens Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a powerful tool that harvests data leaking out of Web browsers. In the post, I talked about how these types of reconnaissance tools could be combined with sniffers and information from vulnerability databases to lay the groundwork...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Metasploit, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Digital rights management, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- eBay to the rescue
- Looking for "it"? eBay’s advertising pitch is "Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay.”Even snow. Snow balls, that is.New York City is the Big Apple, but no snow has fallen on the Apple so far this winter.I am not complaining, and I haven’t heard my fellow New Yorkers...
- Tags: Local, Search, Culture, eBay, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, snow, Hansen, Mary Walker
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Govt. scientists still being muzzled
- Back in January, NASA's James Hansen made headlines when he accused administrators and the public affairs office of trying to stop him from speaking honestly about his climate change research. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin later created a policy stopping the practice, which satisfied Hansen and other scientists. Hansen at the...
- Tags: climate-change research, Hansen, NASA
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative Detailed
- During the Mobile VoIP sessions at CTIA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contractor project coordinator Jenny Hansen described her take on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative.Currently under study and due for final enactment in 2008, the Initiative will seek to solve several pressing issues. Hansen provided...
- Tags: Hansen, 9-1-1
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- NASA's new comms policy gets thumbs up from scientists
- Back in February, the scientific community was up in arms over NASA public affairs officials' alleged muzzling of Dr. James Hansen, NASA's top earth scientist, who had spoken directly about the impact of the the Bush Administration's nonaction on global warming. After Hansen's handler, George Deutsch, resigned amid...
- Tags: agency, Hansen, NASA
- Blog posts 2006-03-14
- While tech watchers fret about Google, US censors chief climatology expert
- Are policy officials censoring scientists? James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA, says he is being censored after calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the New York Times reports. Hansen said that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs...
- Tags: Hansen
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
Additional Resources
- Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
- Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- UFO News (gadget)
- Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...
- Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- The chief security officer's evolving role
- At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Dave Hansen, senior vice president at Computer Associates, talks about the chief security officer's changing role within the enterprise. He discusses how the position has evolved over the last few years from an enforcement position to a more complex role working with the entire...
- Tags: Security
- Videos 2008-04-10
- Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be... you're scared of jail aren't you?
- Robert Hansen aka R-Snake has posted a very interesting article today over at his blog. As R-Snake states: Whelp, we've talked about it, but now it's finally possible. CSRF can now cause jail time. The FBI has begun arresting people who click on links to supposed child pornography. Now,...
- Tags: Child Pornography, Law, Government, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Sun Blackbox gets new name and customers
- Sun's Blackbox, the data center in a shipping container, has gained customers and earned a less compelling new name, the Sun Modular Datacenter S20 or Sun MD. Starting at $559,000, the container can be deployed in about three weeks and can hit 18 TFlops and provide up to 3 petabytes...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Blackbox, Data Centers, Storage, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- How misleading was the "Windows Vista Capable" campaign?
- How misleading was the "Windows Vista Capable" campaign that Microsoft ran during the run-up to the January release of the operating system? Seems that it was misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial for the class action suit. The trial is scheduled for October.Some background. Two Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Class Action, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Firefox raises barrier to cross-site scripting attacks
- Mozilla has quietly fitted a new security feature into the latest Firefox update, adding the ability for the browser to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.The change, which was not officially announced, implements httpOnly cookies in Firefox 2.0.0.5, the most recent refresh of the open-source browser.Web application security experts are welcoming the...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Digital rights management, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Judge: TorrentSpy must turn over logs in RAM
- Judge: TorrentSpy must turn over logs in RAMThank You!Amercian, for providing us with real life sopranno. The Digital Mafia (MPAA/RIAA) once again show the world that they can buy any judge they want and that everyone have a price. Internet Users kiss you privacy goodby and remember next time your...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Memory, Digital media, TorrentSpy, RAM
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Do you know what's leaking out of your browser?
- Information seeping out of your Web browser could provide a gold mine for hackers doing reconnaissance for targeted attacks.At the ToorCon Seattle (beta) conference, Web application security specialist Robert Hansen (RSnake) demoed Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a new utility that combines information disclosure flaws in Internet Explorer and Firefox to collect...
- Tags: Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Black Hat, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Open source, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Privacy, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Hackers in Seattle for Microsoft's Blue Hat, ToorCon
- White hat hackers have descended on Seattle for two semi-private security conferences where new attack and exploitation techniques are being discussed.The first is the Spring 2007 edition of Microsofts Blue Hat Security Briefings where researchers are invited to Redmond "to share knowledge and to educate and help protect customers against...
- Tags: Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Digital rights management, Exploit code, Hackers, McAfee, Metasploit, Microsoft, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Coloring Book 8: Fairy Tales (exe)
- An eighth coloring book program from Dataware with characters and scenes from your favorite fairy tales. It includes Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansen and Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The...
- Tags: Dataware
- Software downloads 2007-04-16
- In IL, another vendor is fired over online testing
- There are just a handful of testing companies that serve all of the nations schools, and the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act are overtaxing the companies, reports the Associated Press. The most recent casualty is in Illinois, where testing contractor Harcourt Assessment, lost most of...
- Tags: NCLB, Harcourt
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Judge: Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional
- A federal judge in Philadelphia invalidated the Child Online Protection Act, which makes it a crime for websites to allow anyone under 17 to access sexual material, saying that the government failed to show that filters are ineffective and that the law infringes on free speech, The Washington...
- Tags: Web site development, Regulations, Web, American Civil Liberties Union, Child Online Protection Act, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
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