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Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys",...
Tags: Information Technology, Industry, OpenBSD, Bug, Attack, Linux Creator, Torvalds, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Security, Software, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
News items 2008-07-17
Crackers claim iPhone 3G hack
The iPhone Dev Team claims to have jailbroken the iPhone 3G, while a former member of the team claims the device has not been unlocked. A group of developers has claimed to have cracked the iPhone 3G. Apple's latest version of the iPhone was released to...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Team, PwnageTool 2.0, 3G, Team Management, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, cracking, hack
News items 2008-07-14
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
Google responds to security concerns about new desktop search
C|Net's Tom Espiner has a report today that Google has responded to concerns recently expressed by many, including Gartner, about the implications of the Search Across Computers feature in the company's Google Desktop 3. According to the report, Google spokesperson Andy Ku, the company's European marketing manager, conceded that the...
Tags: Google Inc.
Blog posts 2006-02-20
Recertifying CERT
When CERT published its 2005 Vulnerabilities summary earlier year it drew hundreds of reality reversing headlines along the lines of Tom Espiner's zdnet report: "Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows.'" On January 10th I looked at the list of 2,328 claimed Unix vulnerabilities only to discover them greatly...
Tags: CERT, vulnerability
Blog posts 2006-01-24
Windows Wi-Fi 'vulnerability' not a vulnerability
[Updated 1/20/2006 2:00 AM: I had a chat with Mark Loveless after he contacted me after reading this blog and we cleared some issues up.] We've had two stories this week by Tom Espiner declaring a new Wi-Fi vulnerability in Windows XP with SP2 and that a fix wasn't...
Tags: SSID, vulnerability, Mark Loveless
Blog posts 2006-01-19
Sobering up
Email viruses are so passe, between improved filtering and spreading user awareness, this is a plague that's over - or, at least, that's the received wisdom among pundits. Sadly, it ain't so. Last week saw the 25th variant of the so called "Sober" email virus since mid...
Tags: e-mail, Sober, virus
Blog posts 2005-11-30
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
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