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- Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN
- MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWNthe detailshere is more info:http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/27/day-two-of-cansecwest-pwn-to-own---we-have-our-first-official-winner-with-pictureRE: MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWNThat's a little sad since Mac's claim to fame is a low vulnerability to such things. Pretty soon they'll have to play ball with antivirus software...
- Tags: Notebooks, PWN 2 OWN, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, exploit, Zero Day Initiative
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN
- The MacBook Air fell in two minutes at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN. According to Infoworld, Charlie Miller won the $10,000 prize. Under the contest rules, organizers offered Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes. On day 1 no one won because they...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Charlie Miller, Zero Day Initiative, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
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- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original
- IMHO, one of the best Bluetooth headsets you can buy after getting the swing of putting it on and off is the Aliph Jawbone. Today the announced a new model that has several improvements that look like they actually listened to what consumer wanted changed. There should be one at...
- Tags: Gram, Battery, AT&T Corp., Model, Aliph Jawbone, Battery Life, Engineering, Retail, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510
- As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- 10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)
- Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
- So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...
- Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP
- I've been busy all day and just haven't been able to get to it until now, but Aviv Raff is a seriously bad man. I follow his blog religiously as he always has some cool stuff going on and a lot of it tends to be thought provoking for other...
- Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Aviv Raff, Blogging, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Britain releases its X-Files
- The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...
- Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Photos: Where the building is the network
- The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...
- Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!
- Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill. Yesterday I got a phone call...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Internet, E-mail Providers, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
- Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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