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- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack
- Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-on
- Malware researchers at BitDefender are reporting on a newly discovered malware (Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.B) that when once dropped in Firefox's add-ons directory starts operating as such, and attempts to steal accounting data from a predefined list of over a hundred E-banking sites. Once the accounting data is obtained, it's forwarded to a...
- Tags: Accounting, Electronic Banking, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Malware, Accounting Data, Web Browsers, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku, a website created by 17-year old Andrew Shaper, is a simple and elegant web-based tool for tracking school assignments. Launched this September, I stumbled across it via a note on Twitter and I have to say I'm completely impressed. According to the launch press release, ...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Assignment, Soshiku, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever
- Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than everHow long does the password need to be?Question for Elcomsoft: how long does the password need to be before the differences between 8 & 9 become negligible?For each character that you add to the passwordThe time it takes to crack is...
- Tags: password, Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat 9, Acrobat 9 password
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever
- Password recovery software vendor ElcomSoft claims that the password verification mechanism in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 is weaker than the one used in the previous version of Adobe's product, thereby allowing them to improve the brute forcing speed a hundred times faster. The company's claim comes right after Adobe's...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Passphrase, Adobe Acrobat, ElcomSoft, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome
- Google outlines plan for extensions in ChromeYou are on target, GarettI would enjoy using Chrome if it were not for the features it lacks:☻ It lacks common user controls☻ It lacks needed functionalities (like ad-blocking, JavaScript controls, cross-site scripting controls, etc.)☻ It lacks Bookmark management ([i]including[/i] Sort features)☻ It lacks...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Calling Mac users - Have you installed antivirus on your Mac?
- Calling Mac users - Have you installed antivirus on your Mac?Multiple anti-virius solutions?Um... why install multiple vendors? All you do is eat up resources and cause your system to slow down even more. Oh wait, Mac's are superior and can handle it *eye roll*Sorry, no points for apple on this...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Desktops, SECURITY, Apple Macintosh, antivirus, Calling Mac-user, virus
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Some seriously good advice from "Narg"
- Some seriously good advice from "Narg"A compromise?How about a terminal near the employee entrance that is hooked up to a computerized time-clock? We use timeclock application in Sharepoint that would work fine, and get over the whole issue without having something that can't be tracked electronically as easily.RE: Some seriously...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Java, Murph, Microsoft Windows Vista, good advice, Narg, card
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
- I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista
- I'm a PC and, yes, I love VistaAbout that Programs listYou say: "The 'All Programs' list is too flat and sorted by company name rather than product name, and there's no grouping at all."Seriously, when you can type any letter, phrase or word in the Search box at teh bottom...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Web browsers, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, operating system, security
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Sun reseller contacts
- Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Marketing research, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., marketing
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor toolOld newsAnd an even older Microsoft-Apologist Straw-man argument.Can I interest you in some sour grapes?...ughI love it how whenever something pops up that targets OSX, PC loyalists like to jump up and down and say "SEE! Stuff can happen to your machines...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Windows User, trojan horse, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, OSX, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)
- (Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RFID, RFID payment, Mobile Industry, mobile, payment, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)
- A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)Sad, but Snipping Tool is still the sameIn classic MS fashion, the snipping tool is not able to capture the borders of all aero themed windows neatly, for e.g. the Firefox "About" dialog box. Sadly this has not changed even in Windows 7...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Free the Obama Blackberry
- Free the Obama BlackberryExecutive recordsDana said: "For too many in the government and media, the main lesson of Watergate seems to have been don’t record anything. If they can’t get proof you can be above the law." I agree the "don't record anything" attitude is not working in practice....
- Tags: Government, author obviously, No. People, Obama, Obama Blackberry
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Papermaster countersues; IBM to put up $3M
- Papermaster countersues; IBM to put up $3MCopied text from two images to make it readable for screen readersBeginning of Image 1 to Text:73. The noncompetition Agreement is also unreasonably broad in that it purports to impose an unreasonably lengthly time limitation. In the world of technology, any trade secrets that...
- Tags: Asset management, Papermaster, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Lessons from Twitterank launch
- The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number of people worldwide (Japan enjoys the greatest usage and the most sophisticated usage model - only...
- Tags: Twitter, Ryo, Productivity, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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