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SAP's Kagermann to retire early

Reports coming out of Germany say that Henning Kagermann, co-CEO at SAP will retire earlier than expected. Heise Online says that Kagermann will leave at the end of January. The company has chosen not to comment on this event but "Market sources confirmed however the particulars." I'm...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Heise Online, Yahoo Finance, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Sales, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released

Heise online is reporting that a new critical vulnerability for Mac OS X has been discovered and it appears to have ramifications beyond the Safari brows thanks to SANS and SunbeltBLOG for the link. The problem is severe because a user simply needs to visit a malicious website and...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, SAFARI

Blog posts 2006-02-21

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iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie Macs

iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie MacsHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!breathHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!:) :) :)Come on ZDNet, this should be the biggest, boldest headline on front page!:)It would be interesting to see...It would be interesting to see what Apple is going to do with this in their "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" add.Oh wait, you...

Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Pirated Software, Apple Macintosh, iBotnet, zombie, virus, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating system

How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating systemThose who need itUnfortunately, those who carry sensitive information about the rest of us government and corporate types are unlikely to use something like this, IMHO.Isn't TrueCrypt vulnerable to the "secret room" problem?Wouldn't the presence of the sooper-seekrit inner volume be...

Tags: disk, operating system, TrueCrypt, password

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?

According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...

Tags: DNS, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Security Token, Microsoft Corp., Domain Names, Digital Security, Security, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-05-31

ActiveX vulnerability haunts Creative Labs AutoUpdate engine

ActiveX vulnerability haunts Creative Labs AutoUpdate enginePerhaps the practical solution......is to [i]not[/i] use ActiveX.No solution!? Stop using Active-X ntntthe title of this news is wrong because there's not a flaw in activexthe title of this news is wrong because there's not a flaw in activex technology, but in a particular...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Does IE7, ActiveX, Active-X, Creative Labs Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Build your own Wi-Fi antenna

If you need a signal boost and want to get a little creative, the U.K. site Heise Online has a detailed post on creating a homemade Cantenna for 802.11b/g routers. (802.11a routers require antennas of different dimensions.) It’s a great way to recycle packaging for household goods and ramp up...

Tags: Antenna, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Toshiba delivers its Betamax address

Toshiba delivers its Betamax addressThe writing was on the wallI think it was pretty much game over for HD-DVD once Sony bundled the BR drive in the PS3. Although that can be balanced by Sony's usual failures in introducing formats. See: Betamax, MiniDisc, Hi8, Memory stick and UMD.Too bad, I...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Sony Betamax, Toshiba Corp., Betamax address, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Apple collecting iPhone usage data (Updated)

Uneasy Silence is reporting that Apple is collecting data on iPhone customers as they use their popular weather and stock applications on the device. According to the report Apple is sending user's IMEI number and data about the information requested to a special tracking server at headquarters: http://iphone-wu.apple.com/...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Investment, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Uneasy Silence

Blog posts 2007-11-19

DirectX 10 debate

Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP.  I have to agree with Newell. According to an online survey by Valve Software, only one in fifty players who access download service Steam has a DirectX...

Tags: Game, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Gamer, DirectX, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-08-29

There's a hole in your laptop, dear HP, dear HP

The Help and Support Center utility that ships with HP laptops might be giving help to all the wrong people.According to a brief note from HP, there's a very serious vulnerability in the utility that could be used by hackers to seize control of Windows XP machines."[This update fixes] a...

Tags: Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Digital rights management, Exploit code, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Piracy, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Simple Newsfeed Widget 1.002 (Windows)

Simple Newsfeed Widget display different RSS news from the following sources: Heise News DE, Heise News EN, Heise Security DE, Heise Mobil DE, Heise Open DE, Heise iX DE, Heise Netze DE, Spiegel Online DE, Tagesschau DE, Focus Online DE, Google News DE, and Google News EN. The widget displays...

Tags: Google Inc., Google News, Ralf El Barnoussi, DE, RSS, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-26

Free hardware code a bad hack

Harald Welte, who runs GPL-Violations, has a new crusade. (Hat tip here to Heise Online, which alerted me to it. Danke, y'all.)Welte wants hardware makers to stop delivering bad freeware, and start delivering GPL-compliant code in their designs that is worthy of them.The German native wrote in his blog on...

Tags: hardware, GPL

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Munich's $44.5M 14,000-PC desktop Linux migration project: So far, so good

A story published last week by Heise Online has some interesting details that other organizations considering a move to desktop Linux might want to take a note of:The "LiMux" client is mainly based on Debian/GNU Linux 3.1, Desktop KDE, and OpenOffice 2.Officials anticipate it will take approximately 2 years to...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, migration, LiMux, desktop

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Abundance of DRM trainwrecks make them worth tracking. You can help.

Abundance of DRM trainwrecks make them worth tracking. You can help.0wnz problemone problem that has not been talked about much is the user-agreement that comes with most DRM software/media. the agreement eventually ends up saying that whatever rights you have can be revoked. we don't guarantee anything. terms and...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit

Critical Mac OS X zero-day exploitHmmmm . . .". . . using this online demonstration provided by Heise Security."OK. So what. None of my browsers since day ONE have been given permission to OPEN anything after download. This has nothing to do with security issues, but everything to do with...

Tags: Operating systems, JPEG, Mac OS X zero-day exploit, zero-day bug, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2006-02-22

Critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit

ZDNet's George Ou has posted some details about a scary new Mac OS X exploit that takes advantage of Safari. Unlike the relatively benign OSX.Leap.A worm which emerged last week this exploit is a major security hole because it requires no user interaction. Heise online is reporting...

Tags: SAFARI, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh

Blog posts 2006-02-21