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- Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
- Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium3 Full copies or 3 Upgrade copies?The hard thing about comparing OS X with Windows is that you can only compare the Windows Upgrade version to the OS X in the retail chain because Windows Full, unlike OS X or Windows...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam
- With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have escalated...
- Tags: U.S., China, Google Inc., Free Trade, Tools & Techniques, Network Security, Networking, Security, Finance, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Are Windows stealth updates back again?
- Are Windows stealth updates back again?PersonallyI think all "security" updates and patches should be automatic and there should be no option to opt-out the application of said patches.Many if not ALL of the worst viri/worm infections from the past decade wouldn't have happened if that were the case.Damned if you...
- Tags: Patches, Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Windows Stealth Updates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Critical Adobe Shockwave flaw affects millions
- Critical Adobe Shockwave flaw affects millionsAnotherIt seems everytime I turn around now Adobe is having a critical flaw in one program or another. If it weren't for PDF files I think even acrobat would be gone.Windows Update...Microsoft should be working with Adobe to get this crap patched via Windows...
- Tags: SECURITY, Patches, Adobe Shockwave flaw, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Shockwave, Shockwave, flaw
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Will Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro) dent commercial antivirus sales?
- Will Microsoft Security Essentials Morro dent commercial antivirus sales?Microsoft doesn't conjure up "security" in my mind ...... but Ed Bott has an interesting article describing a study that shows OneCare and apparently Morro uses the same engine and definitions scored among the top of the tested products.That opened up the...
- Tags: AVG Free, MSE, Avira, antivirus, Security Software, OneCare, AVG, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- News to know: Android notebooks; Twitter bugs; Samsung, Nokia
- 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. John Morris: Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks Ryan Naraine: Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Handhelds, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patchThe problem with backdoor softwareis the danger somebody else will discover your back door and use it.What was that about copyright infringement, again?[i]"?It is not responsible to crack somebody?s software and publish the details, which are commercial secrets, on...
- Tags: Patches, Chinese People, Chinese Government, Green Dam, security flaw, patch, security
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch
- China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has instructed the developers of the Green Dam censorware, to briefly release a patch in regard to last week's published analysis detailing the possibility of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities within the software. Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co, developer of Green Dam,...
- Tags: Software, China, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorware
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorwareSomehow that figuresWho would expect censorware makers to actually be competent at what they do?BINGO!!!"The big question is whether these flaws enable the Chinese government to take control of PCs. If hackers can do it easily why can?t a few government employees?"Wouldn't...
- Tags: security, CCP, Falun Gong, Green Dam censorware, censorware, Green Dam
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Windows 7 UAC flaw: "Pandora's box of all vulnerabilities"
- Windows 7 UAC flaw: "Pandora's box of all vulnerabilities"Not that big an issue....Not that big an issue since the defalt in Windows 7 RC is to allways notify... so as long as you don't tamper with the default you should be ok. And hopefully 90% of users will leave it...
- Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, Adrian, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7, flaw, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorware
- A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has found a bevy of exploitable vulnerabilities in Green Dam, censorship software that the Chinese government wants to bundle on every PC. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that China wanted to require PC makers to bundle...
- Tags: Software, China, Flaw, Vulnerability, Programming, Government, Tools & Techniques, Security, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Gumblar attack worse than Conficker, experts warn
- Gumblar attack worse than Conficker, experts warn Someone will come up with...Microsoft doesn't supply patches for pirated software even though they do.True[i]If you run another OS then you will not get the Gumbar problem.[/i]And if you are talking about Linux then I say that's good. Moving to OS X to...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, SECURITY, Now Let, Gumblar, Gumbar, Conficker, attack, Gumblar attack, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws (Inside the botnets that never make the news)
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws Inside the botnets that never make the newsBlock IRC traffic completelyThat's the solution. IRC traffic has no place in business environments.Image 5...Did you do the obfuscating? If not, how do you know they're all on the same server?How pray tell?You're forgetting, any type of...
- Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Stateful Packet Inspection, IRC traffic, IRC, BotNet
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws
- Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flawsFault EliminationI did see the SVG fix in your article on 10.5.7's release and your relaying of Apple's attribution of discovery to "Nils." Regarding the IE8 issue, this is difficult to research because the signal to noise ratio is real low, but it looks as though...
- Tags: SECURITY, Patches, OSX, IE8, Apple Inc., vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks
- SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...
- Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
- On the same day Microsoft shipped a bundle of patches for gaping holes in its PowerPoint software, Apple followed suit, dropping a monster Mac OS X update to correct 67 security vulnerabilities. The sudden Apple Patch Day also included a patch to cover a trio of flaws...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Arbitrary Code Execution, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Critical security hole in Google Chrome
- Critical security hole in Google ChromeDoes the sandboxing mitigate the problem?[i]A failure to properly validate input from a renderer tab process could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly run arbitrary code with the [b]privileges of the logged on user[/b].[/i]Does this apply to v1.x alone or also to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Apple Inc., vulnerability, Chrome, security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- What to expect from Windows 7
- What to expect from Windows 7MS didn't dial-back UAC prompts, they crippled themIf you're in the mode where you get fewer UAC prompts -- i.e. the default mode -- then you might as well turn UAC off. Anything that wants to can bypass UAC in that mode via the backdoor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Five 'must-secure' Web app vulnerabilities
- Security holes in the Apache Geronimo Application Server and SAP cFolders headline a list of five serious Web app vulnerabilities that demand immediate attention. According to Mark Painter from the HP Security Laboratory, the Geronimo flaws expose users to a variety of attack vectors that could lead...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Apache Geronimo, Attacker, Vulnerability, XSS, Web Application, SAP AG, Attack, Authentication Credential, SAP cFolders SAP cFolders, CS Whois Lookup CS Whois Lookup, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
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