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- VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
- VPN flaw threatens Internet trafficAren't standards great?One standard that everybody can use? It makes life sooo much easier...Well, end users still don't know the difference between an "OK" button from the power button and thanks to this wretched homogeny, hackers and crackers are poised to bring down the whole...
- Tags: VPNs, Quality, SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet, VPN flaw, monoculture, VPN, flaw
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
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- Coming on Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 6 critical
- The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company's advance notice mechanism, six of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The...
- Tags: Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack
- Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Secunia: Less than 2% of Windows PCs fully patched
- It's long been established that the unpatched state of the Windows monoculture is the reason we are facing a malware epidemic. Yet, the latest vulnerability patching statistics from Secunia's PSI Personal Software Inspector is a major eye-opener for everyone tracking the security of the Windows ecosystem. According...
- Tags: Program, PC, Malware, Windows PC, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Let's be smart about patching databases
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...
- Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA ViolationApple is much more evil than MS...they've just been so much less successful that no one has noticed just how evil Apple is. People are beginning to notice. :)RE: Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA ViolationI used to use Anapod Explorer for my old...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Computers Today, Apple Inc., Apple Confuses Speech, DMCA Violation, DMCA
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?
- Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the standard Windows vs. Linux bickering, but there were also a lot...
- Tags: Desktop, Americans With Disabilities Act, Desktop Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Remote Access, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple iPhone customers gain free VPN service
- AnchorFree, the maker of the Hotspot Shield virtual private network VPN service for Mac and Windows laptops, recently released a service for the iPhone. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: Apple iPhone, HotSpot, Apple Inc., VPNs, Network Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Security, Wireless, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social mediatoo much BS, I ignore itOn one hand is too much contradiction in the news that I even stopped paying attention to.On the other hand hundreads of people were dying in Iraq every day last year and the media...
- Tags: Blogging, social media, attack coverage, maturation, perpetrator, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wild
- New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wildExploit code in September??The patch was released out-of-band on October 23, and MS noted that there were limited, targeted attacks at that time. This one came out of the blue; I don't recall any exploit code showing up in September for...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, MS08-067 flaw, MS08-067, New Worm, flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wild
- Microsoft's Security Response Center and McAfee are warning on increased network scanning activity during the last couple of days courtesy of the very latest W32/Conficker.worm exploiting the already patched MS08-067 vulnerability. What's particularly interesting in the latest wave of copycat worms is that W32/Conficker.worm is patching the infected host in...
- Tags: Flaw, Malware, Worm, Tool, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Following the speculations on the resurrection of what's thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Attacker, Vulnerability, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- TiVo control comes to iPhone
- TiVo control comes to iPhoneYawn, MS innovated this long agoBy tapping into the extremely innovative [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow]SideShow[/url] feature of Vista something OS X has no answer for, I can interact with my Vista Media PC through my Windows Mobile phone using BlueTooth. Not only can I control all aspects of the...
- Tags: DVR, Microsoft Windows, Digital video, TiVo Inc., cable company, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Microsoft Corp., digital video recorder, cable, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- Gmail exploit lets attackers forward your email to them
- Gmail exploit lets attackers forward your email to themWhat about timeouts?Shouldn't the values in the cookie become invalidated after a certain period of time? Seems obvious to me. Especially for users who enabled the SSL only feature.I'm not talking about the cookie expiring, I mean whatever it is...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, attacker, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-11-23
- iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
- Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Issue, SMS, Arbitrary Code Execution, Security Bug, Application Termination, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drivesIf our Army is under attack......isn't that war?Um...good luck on that!!Do they not realize that the cost of lost productivity from completely un-networking and banning shared media FAR outweighs the cost of security s/w and remediation from time to time? Ever hear...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Flash memory, SECURITY, US-Army, USB flash drive, virus, worm attack, USB, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Scosche TuneStream
- Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch include tons of desirable features, but they can't stream music over Bluetooth. To address this shortcoming, the folks at Scosche created TuneStream, a $79 stereo A2DP Bluetooth transmitter that plugs directly into the dock port of your iPod or first-generation iPhone.For better or worse, there's...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Scosche TuneStream, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-11-19
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