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- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Hacker ships tool to circumvent China's Green Dam filter
- So any bets on how long before the U of M's IT system is attacked... ...from China?Was thinking the exact same thing.I applaud their effort especially after China pirated US software to create the Green Dam product.It won't be long before the retaliations begin.nobody saw that coming, did they?If hackers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, SECURITY, tool, Green Dam, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack
- Albert Gonzales, previously accused of breaking into TJX's computer systems, was indicted on charges that a separate group he was involved in breached Heartland Payment Systems. Also indicted but unidentified and still at large were "Hacker 1" and "Hacker 2," labels that suggest Thing 1 and...
- Tags: SQL, SQL Injection, Attack, Albert Gonzales, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch
- The patch to fix the patch that fixed the patch that Jack builtI laugh and I laugh and I laugh at those who suggest that people have to patch Windows more frequently than OS X. Those same people will then turn around and cheer Apple for releasing patches "as soon...
- Tags: Patches, Emperor, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch, OSX, security
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks
- 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. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Hacker demos persistent Mac keyboard attack
- Apple's sleek $49 Mac keyboards can be hacked and infected with keystroke loggers and impossible-to-detect rootkits, according to a security researcher presenting at this year's Black Hat/DEFCON conferences. The researcher, known only as "K. Chen," found a way to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hacker, Firmware, Attack, Keyboards, Rootkits, Hardware, Peripherals, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels
- Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotelsThey probally enjoyed the ironyof "hacking" the hackers.If the cops find who did it, the only punishment they should get...... is having their names released to the public.Then we can sit back and watch their lives be destroyed by the eLIt3 hax0r5.Um, one...
- Tags: Network technology, Hacking, skimmer, Las Vegas Hotels, ATM
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels
- A Google security researcher attending the Black Hat/DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas was victimized by a skimming device placed in an ATM at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Chris Paget, an RFID security expert who now works on Google's security team, said he lost $200 to...
- Tags: Security, Las Vegas, Kiosk, Conference, Chris Paget, ATM, Network Technology, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
- LAS VEGAS -- A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers. The service -- called Computrace LoJack for Laptops -- contains...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Rootkits, BIOS, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Researchers take control of iPhone via SMS
- Researchers take control of iPhone via SMS reallyso you thought software produced by Microsoft were the only insecure ones? This is just reality, nothing is really secureRE: Researchers take control of iPhone via SMS LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!Yet another reason I don't want an iphone.I was wonderingWould the start menu still be accessablebecause...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart phones, Telephony, Cellular phones, Miller, Apple iPhone, SMS, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- iPhone executes SMS binary code as root
- A security flaw has been discovered in the iPhone OS that could allow attackers to gain root access to the iPhone OS and allow them to install and execute malicious programs at will. Charlie Miller announced the discovery of the vulnerability during a presentation at the SyScan...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, SMS, Attack, Charlie Miller, DailyTech, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Smart Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Cybercrime doesn't pay: well it does, and very well
- A large part of me is worried about writing this post because in some way, I could be considered as promoting the idea or inciting people to commit cybercrime. Well, that's not my intention as such - instead I'm taking a more back seat approach to denounce why people commit...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Web Site, Hacker, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security Industry, Web Site Development, Government, Phishing, Web Technology, Security, Hacking, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plans
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI've said it beforeFOSS companies should not worry.Having liabilities for the free speach makes no sense and would violate the constitution.Only propietary companies need to worry about it.RE: Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI agree with Dana; the current "exemption" by many software...
- Tags: OSS Developer, liability plan, open source, precaution, OSS, F/OSS
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked
- Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked Why does....The FAA need to have these systems linked to a public facing system? Couldn't they use private networks and segment this stuff from the internet? I just don't understand why there needs to be a connection. I would just like someone...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Linux, ATC, FAA, Linux IS
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Mac malware not a big deal - yet
- Mac malware not a big deal - yetNot your daddys hackersThese attacks were clumsy and unsophisticated. Merely a fake keygen program which installed an easily detectable service. This is what attacks looked like in 1995.Which leads me to suspect that this is not one of the highly sophisticated groups attacking...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, ONLY WIndows, Apple Macintosh, operating system, attack, Apple Mac OS X, security, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
- It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Toronto, Computer, GhostNet, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Nils2Own: 'I want to see security flaws fixed'
- VANCOUVER, BC -- Charlie Miller may have dominated the headlines but the undisputed champion of this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest was a hitherto unknown hacker who asked to be identified simply as "Nils." A day after his perfect sweep of the breaking into...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Vulnerability, Bug, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Exploit, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Security, Internet, Software, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller
- VANCOUVER, BC -- At the CanSecWest security conference here, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who broke into a fully patched MacBook machine using a Safari code execution vulnerability. We discuss the state of Web browser security, the vulnerability marketplace and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Bug, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Hacker, Exploit, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Vote early, vote often: Linux Foundation "We're Linux" voting begins
- Vote early, vote often: Linux Foundation "We're Linux" voting beginsVote early, vote often: Linux Foundation "We're Linux" voting beginsWow you mean some linux user actually took time away from recompiling his kernel to make a video? I find that very hard to believe considering linux doesn't have any video...
- Tags: Corporate communications, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, video, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
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