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News to know: Vista kernel tampering; YouTube ads; Tafiti; Roomba fun: Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My 7-step Windows Vista reliability action plan. Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista. Mary Jo Foley: Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista's tarnished image? Ed Bott: We need less whining, more complaining about Vista.Photos: Safe...; Tags: Advertisement, Tampering, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Vista, YouTube Inc., iRobot Roomba, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-22
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
California man guilty to Xbox tampering: California man guilty to Xbox tamperingOh no! Not a modded Xbox seller!OMG! We need to get those people off the streets before they damage Microsoft's profits! *rolls eyes*California man pleads guilty to Xbox tamperingHurray for me for being one of the last people with an umodded xbox :-D...; Tags: Game players, SECURITY, Jail Time, tampering, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox tampering, copy protection, protection scheme, piracy, satellite; Discussion threads 2006-05-10

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Resurrecting E-voting: Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...; Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting; Discussion threads 2008-08-28
Excelsior JET from Russia, with love: By distributing without the jar files, your application is secured against reverse engineering and tampering with OSGi bundles. Java decompilers become useless to hackers because they can't see the classes inside the installations. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Eclipse, JVM, Versions, Java, Programming Languages, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-08-01

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs: Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...; Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel: Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travelNot for Vista Home Premium!Why not tell people that this does NOT WORK encryption radio button grayed out in Vista Home Premium - only suckers who paid for M$ for the Ultimate or business/enterprise editions!RE: Getaway day: How to secure your...; Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), laptop computer, holiday travel, TrueCrypt, Getaway day, Getaway; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Firefox 2 dirty dozen: Critical vulnerabilities patched: Mozilla has shipped a high-priority update for Firefox 2, warning that there are at least five serious vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks. With Firefox 2.0.0.15, Mozilla fixes at least 12 documented vulnerabilities -- five rated critical -- that could put users at risk...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Critical Vulnerability, XSS, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, MFSA, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?: Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...; Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source; Discussion threads 2008-06-05
IT politics killed White House email project: Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...; Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-06
How to Digitally Sign Downloadable Code for Secure Content Transfer: Learn how to implement VeriSign Code Signing Digital Certificates which provide assurance to end users that the code really comes from the developer who signed it, and has not been altered or tampered with since it was signed. Read about this and more in the free white...; Tags: VeriSign Inc., Security; White papers 2008-04-29
NJ court: IP-related info is private: Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....; Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Our students will need to drive e-voting: Our students will need to drive e-votingEvoting vs Paper voting.Chris,That's a great question. I sent my wife teacher this link to ask her opinion and also ask her to talk to a few students to see what they say. I'll be interested in what they have to say.In my...; Tags: e-voting, ballot; Discussion threads 2008-03-05
A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Education: As school districts invest in laptop computers as every-day learning tools, they face greater risk of theft, unauthorized software installation and hardware tampering. These incidents may also have serious legal consequences, potentially violating government regulations. This whitepaper outlines a multi-layered strategy for protecting laptops that combines traditional...; Tags: Education, Absolute Software, Layered Technologies Inc., Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; White papers 2008-03-01
White+House+official+details+email+hole: White+House+official+details+email+hole"that smacks of willful violation of laws"What a surprise! That has been th MO of this band of Nazis for the past 7+ years.I'm shocked that we have any Constitution left.the Wite House was fiscally responsible[i]But CIO Theresa Payton canceled the new system in 2006 because it would have "required...; Tags: Workforce management, details email hole, official details email hole, White House, administration, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-02-27
Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMsa Congrats to you George.It sounds like those would have been some interesting talks, I would have loved to have been there, especialy for those two. Good job then, to you two for being right up there with the big boys. Anagi...; Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, ATM, Cracking GSM, Day 1, Black Hat; Discussion threads 2008-02-21
Mozilla delivers patches for Firefox; Plugs flat file vulnerability: Mozilla on Friday delivered its Firefox 2.0.0.12 update including patches that fix a Web forgery flaw, browsing history and forward navigation stealing and the directory traversal via chrome, which has been the most visible vulnerability of late. According to the Firefox security advisory, Mozilla filed the following...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., MFSA, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-07
(Photos: San Francisco in 2108): (Photos: San Francisco in 2108).Let's be more realistic alright? Since S.F. will most likely be underwater in 2108, the city will either not exist in the same location if at all or it will be covered by a dome. ]:)Lies!"Since cars will be airborne..."I've been waiting for this to happen...; Tags: IPCC Report, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-01-25
This old (green) house: I have a confession to make: I am a preservationist. I'm nuts about old houses with stories to tell and atmosphere to spare, a passion that may seem at odds with my green leanings. Give me Newport, Rhode Island, with its Anglo-estate-envy or Cape May, with her...; Tags: Fact, Green, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-13
How to temporarily "kill your television"-and everyone else's, too: How to temporarily "kill your television"-and everyone else's, tooHow do you think..that those displays are turned on and off? Did you notice that many were mounted more than head-high? Those IR sensors are used.Not that I condone the activity...But perhaps in the future the vendors might do something...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, prank, Consumer Electronics Show, jerk, TV; Discussion threads 2008-01-11