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Thomson Reuters bets on Content remaining King with Calais 4.0

Global information behemoth Thomson Reuters today announces the latest version of its Calais web service, delivering on earlier promises with respect to 'Linked Data' and firmly staking out the company's intention to be a significant player in the shifting market for timely and authoritative information. I'll take...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., URI, Tague, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities

Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already.  Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me.  As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City

Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

uriparser 0.6.1 (Windows)

A strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing library. uriparser is fast and cross-platform and comes with Unicode support. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: URI, Sebastian Pipping, Uriparser, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-01-09

Finding and exploiting holes in software features

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by Nate McFeters With the holiday season fast approaching, and being so in the spirit of giving,  I thought I'd compile a list of the top features that led to security...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Attacker, XSS, Trillian, Google Picasa, URI, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-23

Microsoft patches URI handling, DNS spoofing flaws

Microsoft patches URI handling, DNS spoofing flawsThe monthly reminder on why you might want to move to Vista..They have not fixed the problem.So far as I can tell from this bulletin they have not actually fixed the problem."This security update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way that Windows shell...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows XP, flaw, URI, critical flaw, Microsoft patches URI, Windows Shell, Norton Co., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., DNS

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga

MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling sagaFirefox Folks this is fixed in current verion 2.0.0.7ntBS -- it's a FireFox bug.MS has investigated the whole story thoroughly, and it's someone else's problem.RE: MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling sagaIt's been Microsoft's modus for years. If...

Tags: Web browsers, Groupware, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., URI, MS Outlook flaw, flaw, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, new twist, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Subscriberinfo 0.3.2 (Windows)

The subscriberinfo extension allows testing of mobile sites that use the "subscriberinfo" URI scheme with Firefox. The extension rewrites URLs based on "subscriberinfo" URI scheme. The subscriber information scheme is used in mobile devices from Sony Ericsson and is intended to get information about the user to be able to...

Tags: URI, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Peter Johansson, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Mozilla fixes its end of URL protocol handling saga

Mozilla has fixed its end of the controversial URL protocol handling vulnerability that puts Windows users at risk of PC takeover attacks.Exactly a week after admitting that Firefox was just as guilty as Internet Explorer when it comes to passing dangerous data to third party applications, the open-source group shipped...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-31

10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit

10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploitthis is actually a Windows issue ..this is actually a Windows API function issue. See link http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/403150WrongBoth IE and FF are at fault, the difference being that FF has addressed it.They may have had to eat crow...but at least they...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, URI, Unix, shell

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

Protocol abuse adds to Firefox, Windows security woes

Security researchers have discovered a new set of protocol abuse problems with Mozilla Firefox, warning that the popular open-source browser is a sitting duck for code execution exploits.Billy BK Rios, a hacker who has warned repeated about risky and unnecessary URIs registered on Windows, has released proof-of-concept exploits that shows...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Windows Vista, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple, Spam and Phishing, Hackers

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Command injection flaw found in Internet Explorer

Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is vulnerable to a protocol handler command-injection vulnerability that could allow malicious code attacks with limited user action.According to a warning issued by hacker Thor Larholm, the issue is an input validation flaw similar to the one he discovered in Apple's Safari for Windows browser ....

Tags: Apple, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Firefox, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Mozilla, Open source, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Symantec, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-07-10

REST-style architecture in the real world

A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge...

Tags: SOA, REST, Information Management, Content Management

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Skype posts "URI arguments" security alert, fix

Skype posts "URI arguments" security alert, fixThanksIs there any word on when a new Linux version?It's been quite a dry spell (October 2005).Thanks for the advisory Russell.

Tags: URI, security alert, Skype Technologies S.A., security

Discussion threads 2006-05-20

Skype posts "URI arguments" security alert, fix

Skype has just posted a security alert entitled SB/2006-001: Improper handling of URI Uniform Resource Identifier arguments. There's a fix already available. According to the alert: An attacker who constructs a Skype URL that is malformed in aspecific way can initiate the transfer of a single named file from...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., URI

Blog posts 2006-05-20

URL Hotties

To take a leaf out of ValleyWag's book, It pays to be attractive, even for URLs! I was doing research for the O'Reilly book I'm co-writing and came across some gushing posts about URLs. About how beautiful they are. As Mike Schinkel once put it, "Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!"...

Tags: URI

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Lock it down: Windows 2000 IIS

Follow this list of security recommendations to harden your Windows 2000 IIS Web servers. IIS is easy to implement, but if you don't configure it with security in mind, you could be setting yourself up as a hacker target. IT pro Steven Warren has created this list...

Tags: URI, Server, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Web Servers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Download resources 2006-02-07

Mac OS X vulnerable to one-two combo attack

Mac OS X vulnerable to one-two combo attackWhat You'll Hear Here1. MS has had hundreds of exploits in there OS's so what can be expected of Apples?2. It's MS Marketing bashers at work3. This is what Apple followers deserve after claiming for years that there secure Mac's don't get virus's/worms.4....

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., URI, Apple Macintosh, URI handler, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., handler, operating system, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2004-05-18

Additional Resources

X-Lite 4.0 v3 (Mac)

A FREE premium SIP softphone with many PBX-like features. Open standards-based design allows for maximum network interoperation and integration. VoIP networks are expanding at a blistering pace, X-Lite is ready. X-Lite Features:Touch-tones [DTMF]3 LinesMultiple ProxiesLine HoldInbound Call 'Ignore'Inbound Call 'Go to Voicemail'Call Forwarding URI/URLVoicemail URLDial/ Redial/HangupDynamic CODEC SelectionCaller ID [SIP...

Tags: SIP, Apple Macintosh, Network, Speaker, VoIP Network, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, Networking, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2009-10-19

Spotify redefines streaming music

Listening to music online has proven to be pretty easy these days. Last.fm, Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker, the list goes on. There are tons of services, but they only give you a taste. You can't really just search for artists, find the songs you want, and listen to them. ...

Tags: Song, RealNetworks Rhapsody, Music, E-mail, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-08-29