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security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's …
Tagged: security, internet, spam, marketing, social networking, e mail, online communications, semantic web, spam and phishing, advertising and promotion, cyberthreats, paul miller, qdos
Team Think - May 16, 2008
Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding …
Tagged: virtual reality
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
Yesterday I posted Xbench benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer against the latest shipping Mac mini and all three Apple notebook computers and the Open Computer beat the Mac mini 147 to 99. Some suggested Geekbench …
Tagged: hardware, notebooks, desktops, ram, apple macbook, jason d o grady, apple macintosh, notebooks and tablets, apple intel mac mini
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from …
Tagged: hardware, corporate governance, semiconductors, processors, board, components, business operations, corporate law, andrew nusca
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that …
Tagged: hardware, microsoft windows, software, mobile, linux, operating systems, desktops, handhelds, mobile device, microsoft windows mobile, apple macintosh, dan kusnetzky, apple mac os
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great …
Tagged: hardware, software, linux, servers, operating systems, unix, opensolaris, paul murphy, intel x86, sun solaris
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 16, 2008
I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's …
Tagged: hardware, web, notebooks, student, law school, professor, christopher dawson, notebooks and tablets, university of chicago law school
Zero Day - May 16, 2008
Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party …
Tagged: microsoft, viruses and worms, people s republic of china
Zero Day - May 16, 2008
Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the “Nate McFeters Safe” certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher …
Tagged: pci, mcafee, punditocracy
Zero Day - May 16, 2008
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 …
Tagged: linux, open source, hackers, data theft, vulnerability research, exploit code, zero day attacks, complex attacks