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- Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08
- It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, CERT, Flaw, Mogull, Updates, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBs
- IT security provider Panda Security has unveiled its Managed Office Protection solution, a security-as-a-service offering aimed at small and medium businesses SMBs as well as large companies with a significant number of geographically dispersed offices. The service from the Panda keeps the total cost of ownership TCO...
- Tags: Administrator, PC, Security Management, Small And Medium Business, Panda Security, Managed Office Protection, Protection Product, Updates, Smb/Sme, Security, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- MS08-025: Microsoft Windows kernel vulnerable to local privilege escalation flaw
- From Microsoft: A local attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts. This is an important security update for all supported editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server...
- Tags: Window, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, Flaw, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Security Administration, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, SAP AG, Updates, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates
- Last summer, I looked at Apple's announced plans for its Safari web browser and wondered out loud, Is Steve Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop? Apple's decision last week to begin aggressively pushing Safari to any Windows user running iTunes (in other words, anyone with an iPod or an...
- Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Digital Music, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
- I've been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I've tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. In this article and accompanying gallery, I list...
- Tags: Program, Folder, Password, Page, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Product, Microsoft Windows Vista, Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, RoboForm, FeedDemon, FinePrint Software, Process Explorer, Clipboard, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- SlashDock (dmg)
- SlashDock is a simple Mac OS X dock-based application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot. Updates are obtained every 30 minutes, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dockling menu...
- Tags: Article, Open End Software, SlashDock, Updates, RDF, Apple Mac OS X, XML, Apple Mac OS, RSS, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- More on Windows Stealth Updates
- For more thoughts on Windows Stealth Updates, view this screenshot gallery. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, screenshots, microsoft, windows, stealth, updates, wu, Operating Systems, Software
- Image galleries 2007-09-19
- Windows Stealth Updates
- Visual proof that Windows updates itself without user consent. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: windows, vista, xp, updates, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Image galleries 2007-09-13
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- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- HTC Touch Diamond ROM update adds 850 MHz support and much more
- I've written a few posts about the HTC Touch Diamond and my last one discussed some of the issues I was seeing with the device. I like to visit the XDA Developers site for the tweaking they do to the HTC devices, but it is kind of gray area when...
- Tags: ROM, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- What is the "product transition" Apple alluded to?
- During Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO and Tim Cooke COO both mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. Both executives punted on several analyst questions for more "color"...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Product Transition, iTablet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Vantage Giga (zip)
- Suites large to enterprise organizations. Vantage Giga is a monitoring and reporting software that provides interactive reporting interfaces into key functions of Internet and network usage within organizations. Vantage can import and translate different types of log files, providing powerful, yet easy to use, drilldown analysis capabilities with a comprehensive...
- Tags: Analysis, Organization, WebSpy, Vantage Giga, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that's where the fun ends. The update process...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iTunes, Computer, App Store, Update Process, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
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