The remote attacker exploited a Macbook's wireless drivers to seize control of the OSX laptop. And the video proved it to the satisfaction of an awestruck crowd at Black Hawk Las Vegas.Why pick on Macbook? To demonstrate that PCs of ...
O'Reilly's Preston Gralla has seen and heard enough. He thinks the Steve Ballmer version of Microsoft has lost its way. Instead of concentrating on writing great operating systems and applications, Gralla fumes that the company proudly proclaims that "it’s in ...
If this message looks and sounds like a real message from Microsoft to you, the author will appreciate your help. Dear Customer, Our anti-virus labs have detected a new 0-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP protocol, that could allow an ...
Who generates the most spam? Most research regurgitators point their fingers at the USA. I recently threw you a curve by highlighting a CipherTrust survey which demonstrated that, when all the states of the European Union are considered together, the ...
Though I subscribe to Microsoftie Rory Blyth's Neopoleon.com: Because the world obviously needed another short opinionated big-nosed man of French descent, the story turned up on my Scobleizer feed first. Scoble calls this "One of Rory’s best posts."I ...
Despite Microsoft's monthly patch schedule for Windows, some complain that it's not enough. For proof, they point to Microsoft's glacial response to the WMF Exploit that scared the pants off of Windows users during the New Year holiday, 2006. Security ...
Every time someone posts a new ad on Auction-Advertising, the company claims it charges an amount of money equal to the queue number of the ad. Ad number 5 costs $5. Ad 132 costs $132. You get it. Now and again, the ...
The French blog at twice the rate of US Internet users and one-third more than the Brits. This comes as no real surprise, considering their reputation for lengthy discourse. No Frenchman would be denied his right to put forth his opinion, ...
With less malware in email, IT ignores mobile security You think you have problems? Try writing malware for a living. Many networks have dedicated spam firewalls with anti-virus functions planted on the edge... backed up by spam and virus filtering at ...
China's 1.3 billion souls own about 390 million cellphones, eclipsing all other countries, as well as the number of China's land-lines (365 million). Where it was formerly impossible to run traditional phone lines, folks can now make and receive cell calls. That's ...
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