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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
- Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payload
- The Conficker worm is finally active, updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday. CNET's Elinor Mills reports that researchers are analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto...
- Tags: Researcher, Trend Micro Inc., Worm, Computer, Conficker Worm, Conficker/Downad P2P Communication, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- 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
- Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats questioned
- Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats questionedExactly, it was a poor comparison...... and no conclusion can be reached either way. I realize that the authoring experts are writing in a Blog, yet I assume there will be at least a level of professional research, wanting to delve a little deeper than...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Windows vulnerability stat, Apple Macintosh, stat, CVE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- 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
- The debate on software malpractice
- In Tom Espiner's story about former White House cyber-security adviser Howard Schmidt and liability for software flaws, a security representative of the BCS British Computer Society said that Schmidt had suggested personal accountability for software developers on the software they write. The article was mistakenly titled "Expert: Hold...
- Tags: software, software company
- Blog posts 2005-10-13
- 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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