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- DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic
- Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up
- [ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Sanmaxi Word File Repair (exe)
- Word File Repair Software repair restores damaged unoperable word files after instances of virus attacks, unexpected system shutdown, error opening file, and software crash. Repairing the corruptions in the corrupted words document files.This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Sanmaxi, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Office Suites, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Sanmaxi PowerPoint File Repair (zip)
- MS Powerpoint file repair software repairs corrupt PowerPoint Presentation files. PowerPoint repair tool .ppt file repair program repairs Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files which are corrupted due to virus attacks or improper system shutdown. Demo version shows preview of repaired files. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Sanmaxi, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Novaxe (exe)
- Novaxe is a report management tool used to enforce network security over the enterprise. His task is to read events from firewall log files, organize traffic flows and present data to the network administrator. Novaxe makes the inspection of data easy and allows quick detection of anomalies such users who...
- Tags: Network, Intrinsic S.r.l., Novaxe, Reports, Firewalls, Networking, Network Security, Security, Viruses And Worms
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Sanmaxi Access File Repair (exe)
- Access database repair software repairs corrupt MDB files restore damaged access databases. Access repair software repair corrupt mdb files that can not be opened due to corruption like virus attacks, sudden system shutdown, and software corruption. Demo version shows preview of repaired files. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Sanmaxi, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Databases, Management, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
- Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities -- a flaw in Apple Safari WebKit and a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Safari, Web Browser, Flaw, Raff, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome: Steal this browser
- Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- VMware ships patches for 'highly critical' server flaws
- Virtualization specialist VMware has shipped a mega-patch to cover several "highly critical" vulnerabilities affecting its server and workstation product lines. In all, the patch batch addresses at least 16 documented vulnerabilities affecting the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server and VMware ESX server. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Patch Management, VMware Inc., Flaw, Ip storage, Security, Servers, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome, the security tidbits
- The oft-rumored Google browser is real. It's called Google Chrome and it comes with a handful of security-related features like privacy mode and blacklist-based blocking of phishing and malware sites. [ PREVIOUSLY: Google hires browser hacking guru ] A beta version of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Dennis Fisher, Web Browsers, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
- Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Are we to have two Internets?
- Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
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