The SANS Institute reports that 422 new vulnerabilities were discovered in the second quarter of 2005. This is an 11 percent increase over the previous quarter. The increase in the number of security vulnerabilities stems from malicious crackers changing focus from attacking operating systems to webbrowser and other connected applications, such as digital music applications.
SANS Institute Reports 422 New Security Vulnerabilities
Posted by geeknews at 9:37 PM on July 26, 2005Posted in Dave's Muse, Operating Systems
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RSS: The Up-and-Coming E-business Tool
Posted by geeknews at 11:47 AM on July 6, 2005RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is attracting the attention of Internet advertisers. Google and Yahoo Search Marketing, among others, are looking for ways to post advertisements in RSS feeds that are becoming a popular alternative to Web browsing. Long a favored tool of the tech savvy, RSS is being used by a broad audience of well-educated, and presumably affluent readers.
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Quantum Computer to be Ready in Three Years
Posted by geeknews at 1:52 PM on June 22, 2005D-Wave Systems, a Vancouver-based computer engineering firm has announced it’s schedule to build a working quantum computer that will be able to solve physical-simulation problems that currently aren’t solvable using available processing tools. The computer is to be ready within three years. While most designs for quantum computers focus on the properties of quantum entanglement to calculate binary functions, the D-Wave system will use quantum tunneling, which enables particles to hop from one location to another without traversing the intervening space.
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Google Goes Head-to-Head with PayPal
Posted by geeknews at 8:54 AM on June 19, 2005Google, the leading search engine company in search of itself has again added a new service to its eclectic portfolio. Later this year, Google plans to offer an electronic payment service that will compete directly with PayPal, owned by eBay. Services will, reportedly, include processing payments using consumer credit cards and checking accounts, the mainstay of PayPal’s service.
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Microsoft Urges Users to Uninstall Netscape 8 (as if that were surprising)
Posted by geeknews at 1:51 PM on May 27, 2005Microsoft Corp. is urging Windows XP users to uninstall the new Netscape 8 webbrowser because it can conflict with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is claiming that the problem is with Netscape, rather than their own browser that invades the operating system like kudzu.
Update: [blogs.msdn.com/ie/] Their are 2 solutions given but #1 on the list is to uninstall Netscape
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, mozilla firefox, Netscape, web browser, webbrowser, Windows XP
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Nokia Announces Linux-based Portable Internet Device
Posted by geeknews at 1:33 PM on May 26, 2005Nokia announced that its is developing a portable Internet device based on the open-source Linux operating system. Designed to take advantage of the wide distribution of accessible Wi-Fi networks, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet features a widescreen display and an on-screen keyboard, a la a PDA on steroids. The device will also be able to connect to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones as an alternative network connection source.
Tags: bluetooth, connectivity, internet, Linux, Microsoft, networking, networks, nokia 770 internet tablet, portable, wi-fi, Windows, wireless
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U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site
Posted by geeknews at 10:44 PM on May 25, 2005U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site
Ten people suspected of involvement with the EliteTorrents webserver were served warrants by homeland security agents. According to the U.S. government agency, this is the first criminal enforcement action taken against violators of copyright law who use the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file swapping software. The operation, codenamed D-elite, targeted administrators and content providers working through the EliteTorrents website.
Tags: Bit Torrent, bittorrent, Department of Justice, Downloading, downloads, Elite Torrent, elitetzorrents.org, movies, p2p, peer to peer, star wars
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FTC Kicks Off Operation Spam Zombies
Posted by geeknews at 12:57 PM on May 25, 2005The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 35 government partners from more than 20 countries are targeting illegal spammers who take remote control of unwitting users’ computers to serve as spam transmission zombies. By hijacking home and business computers, spam can be routed through them, thereby hiding the true source of the spam and making the enforcement of antispam laws more difficult.
Tags: Antispam, federal trade commission, FTC, government, laws, Legislation, Operation Spam Zombies, smtp, spamming, throttling spam, transmission
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Samsung Announces 16GB Flash Memory Module
Posted by geeknews at 11:42 PM on May 23, 2005Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed a Solid State Disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 16GB. Using two NAND-based modules, the SSD is a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook PCs and, eventually, consumer electronic devices.
Tags: Computer, digital, disk drive, flash memory, hard disk, key, ltd., module, Music, notebook, portable, samsung electronics co., solid state disk, SSD, usb flash memory
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Eureka! Hidden Text Revealed by Particle Accelerator
Posted by geeknews at 7:01 PM on May 21, 2005Eureka! Hidden Text Revealed by Particle Accelerator
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has used a particle accelerator to create a highly-focused X-ray generator that is able to display hidden text that was authored by Archimedes, the Greek mathematician-scientist who was born in Syracuse in 287 BC.
Tags: archimedes palimpsest, hidden text, method of mechanical theorems, on floating bodies, particle accelerator, stanford linear accelerator, walter's art gallery, walter's art museum
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