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- New VoIP-powered ooVoo 1.5 offers two hours of free calling, lots of other features
- Laptop Magazine's Joanna Stern writes me to enthuse about the newest version of VoIP-delivered ooVoo’s 6-way video calling service. A freely downloadable new edition has just been released, which offers calling to landline and mobile phones as well. If you download...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Mobile, Call, Landline Phone, Laptop Magazine, Joanna, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Rutkowska faces '100ò0undetectable malware' challenge
- Rutkowska faces '100ò0undetectable malware' challengeOh what would I do...She is given a choice between two identical laptops. After reading some of her research, the best way to tell would be to check the latency of the laptops and see which one lags more. I think that if anyone...
- Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, malware, JoAnna, Blue Pill, Red Pill, pill
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
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- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- nonsenseanybody who is truly concerned about security will have set the BIOS to require a password at boot...and will set 'boot from USB' to 'Disabled'.Can't you password protect from even booting up?I assume we are talking about business class laptops.InterestingPhysical security is paramount - especially when it comes to data...
- Tags: Notebooks, maid, BIOS, laptop computer, USB, Evil Maid, hard drive, Evil, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...
- Tags: Disk, Passphrase, USB, Laptop Computer, Attack, TrueCrypt, Hotel Room, Mobile Proximity Alarm, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Nearly Nude Celebrities Screensaver 1 1.0 (Windows)
- Features 25 of the hottest female celebrities in sexy bikinis, swimwear, lingerie, implied nudity and other revealing poses and outfits. Included are: Aishwarya Rai, Alyssa Milano, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Beyonce Knowles, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Carmen Electra, Catherine Zeta Jones, Charlize Theron, Drew Barrymore, Elisha Cuthbert, Eva Longoria, Eva...
- Tags: Screensaver, Celebrity, White Paw Products, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- Competing with Asus, MSI to demo touchscreen Wind at CES
- MSI will show a touchscreen version of its popular Wind at CES to compete with rival Asus, according to an interview with MSI's Director of U.S. Sales, Andy Tung, by LAPTOP's Joanna Stern: Are the MSI Wind Nettops/All-In-Ones planned to hit the U.S.? Yes, we plan to...
- Tags: Touch Screen, ASUS, Consumer Electronics Show, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Acer trumps Asus as netbook king
- Numbers for the third quarter of 2008 have arrived, and Acer's Aspire One has overtaken Asus' Eee PC as top dog in sales. According to LAPTOP's Joanna Stern, Acer has captured 38.3 percent of the market share, selling 2.15 million netbooks. Comparatively, Asus has sold about 1.7...
- Tags: ASUS, Acer Inc., Netbooks, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- The Intel Classmate Netvertible appears for preliminary evaluation
- Joanna Stern is usually the first person to get a look at the new netbook devices and writes some fantastic reviews that I personally read before making purchase decisions. She continues this practice with an article that takes a first look at the CTL 2go Tablet aka Intel Classmate Netvertible....
- Tags: Touch Screen, Device, Intel Corp., Intel Classmate Netvertible, Joanna Stern, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Tablets, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller, Device Specification, Notebooks
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention
- Google will set up a "Big Tent" â€" a two-story, 8,000 sq. ft. facilitey -- just for bloggers at the Democratic Convention in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. And, hey, it's non-partisan â€" they'll do the same at the Republican Convention (although they fail to provide a blog-friendly graphic.)...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- AOL Bebo-tizes its social properties; Forms People Networks unit
- AOL said Monday that it has closed the $850 million purchase of Bebo and has put Bebo CEO Joanna Shields in charge of the newly acquired social network, AIM and ICQ. Shields will be in charge of a new AOL unit dubbed "People Networks." The general theme...
- Tags: Bebo, Network, America Online Inc., Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Report: AOL ignored senior management doubts over Bebo buy
- Compared to many in the tech press and blogosphere, I came out quite positive on AOL's acquisition of Bebo -- citing its fairly modest price tag ($850M) compared to what News Corp. paid for MySpace nearly three years ago ($580M) and the ludicrously high valuation of Facebook ($15B) that Microsoft's...
- Tags: Bebo, America Online Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- AOL acquires Bebo for $850 million; Social networking field narrows
- AOL has made its social networking move, acquiring Bebo and getting access to its membership of 40 million worldwide. In a statement Thursday, AOL said Bebo is a "perfect complement to AOL’s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in social media." ...
- Tags: Bebo, Network, America Online Inc., News Corp., Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Debating the most influential security folks list
- Debating the most influential security folks listNo way...You really think any large company doesn't have cisco solutions as part of their security strategy? How could someone at cisco not be influential?Never been to SANS?Never been to NetOp?Never been to Usenix?Geez - someone outta get their out of the internet...
- Tags: influential security folk, security folk, security
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Is there a rootkit stashed in your boot record?
- Is there a rootkit stashed in your boot record?You mean Apple Macs aren't affected?Fascinating. This has been 'known about for some time', Windows 2K affected, XP is affected, Vista partially affected, Apple Mac NOT affected. Imagine that, yet another security drop off which only affects Microsoft Windows. Vista, the OS...
- Tags: Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), BIOS, Operating systems, rootkit, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, MBR
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Is there a rootkit stashed in your boot record?
- The latest rootkit in the wild hides on your hard drive's boot sector and is starting to infect Windows PCs, according to security researchers. And the real kicker: The rootkit can't be detected by most antivirus applications. Symantec has been tracking the latest rootkit--Trojan.Mebroot--and...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., SANS Institute, Trojan.Mebroot Kernel, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Microsoft hacker summit tackles security veil of virtualization
- The Fall edition of Microsoft's Blue Hat hacker summit will kick off next week with a heavy focus on piercing the security veil of virtualization and process isolation. At Blue Hat v6, scheduled for September 27-28 in Redmond, external security researchers and internal Microsoft software engineers...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Rootkits, Hardware, Storage, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?
- I was just going through the slides from Joanna Rutkowska's Black Hat talk (127-page .ppt file) and discovered that there's another unpatched driver flaw that exposes Windows Vista to kernel tampering. This flaw, in NVIDIA nTune, is similar to the recent ATI Technologies driver issue that provides...
- Tags: Security, Tampering, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, PatchGuard, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- UPDATE: ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers
- See update below for official response from ATIAn unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the Windows Vista kernel.Purple Pill, a utility released by Alex Ionescu and yanked an hour later after...
- Tags: Attacker, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Kernel, Tool, Flaw, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
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