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Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, which are commonly used to encrypt web pages, has been made public. Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS Transport Layer Security flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its...

Tags: Web, Flaw, TLS, SSL, Zero-day Bug, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Channel Management, Networking, Marketing, zero day, security, encryption, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-05

Microsoft fixes IE patch again

Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for problems introduced by its last patch for Internet Explorer. Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for problems introduced by its last patch for Internet Explorer. The fix, described in Microsoft support article ID 976749, was initially made available on...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, IE, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, browser, security, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-04

LHC cooled to operational temperatures

All sectors of the world's largest particle accelerator have now been cooled to operational temperatures of approximately -271°C. All sectors of the world's largest particle accelerator have now been cooled to operational temperatures of approximately -271°C. The eight sectors have been cooled individually over time....

Tags: Magnet, Sector, Temperature, Beam, LHC, Large Hadron Collider, Cern, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-10-20

Additional Resources

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OSWell ..."Do you want Microsoft or Apple or your favorite Linux distro to say, "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't allow that," ..."Vista already does this when the broadcast flag is set, so not allowing any cracking tools shouldn't be too far behind. ;)Is Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, invulnerable OS

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

What happened to Dewie the e-Turtle?

Security expert Bruce Schneier was interviewed by Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK regarding the notion that foreign governments are a serious threat to a nation's critical national infrastructure and whether cyberterroism is a more potent threat than the rampant cybercrime. Schneier views cyberterrorism threats as overstated. "The US government gives...

Tags: cybercrime, cyberterrorism, Dewie, e-Turtle

Blog posts 2005-11-25

UK VoIP user fights big telco over "free calls" offer - and wins!

I, like you, have had it to here with fine print nickel-and-diming.Want to hear a true story of a customer who won?Our sister site ZDNet UK has an interesting piece about a British user of British Telecom's BT Communicator VoIP package.The unnamed user had a Broadband Basic package, which gave...

Tags: British Telecommunications, BT Communicator, allowance

Blog posts 2005-06-30