Tuesday - April 15, 2008
Memory bugs, essentially a mistake in the management of heap memory, are caused by a number of factors and can occur in any program that is being written, enhanced or maintained. The fact that memory bugs can be introduced at any time is part of what makes memory debugging a challenging task. This is especially true with codes that are written collaboratively or that are being maintained over a long period of time, where assumptions about memory management can either change or not be communicated clearly.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
IBM is putting its heft behind a project that could morph into new way of doing business in Second Life, Linden Lab's virtual 3-D community. The two have partnered to build a protected enclave in Second Life where the company can conduct serious business without fear of marauders.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Symark International on Tuesday released PowerADvantage, an integrated authentication and configuration tool that extends features of Microsoft Windows' Active Directory to networks also running Unix and Linux systems. PowerAdvantage adds centralized authentication, authorization and account access functionality to Unix and Linux systems.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
After three days of attacks by leading hackers, a laptop running Ubuntu remained untouched while two others, running Mac OS X and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, succumbed. The attacks were launched at the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest in Vancouver, Canada. This was sponsored by security firm TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, and held March 26-28, under its Zero Day Initiative.
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Tuesday - March 25, 2008
The Linux operating system is not immune to virus infections, although Linux-specific viruses are extremely rare. Linux servers face more risk of virus attack than Linux desktops. That said, IT security and control firm Sophos recently issued a warning about potential virus infections targeting Linux servers that could pose risks to the Linux operating system.
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
In 2006, Mozilla's Firefox Internet browser boasted a mere nine days of vulnerability compared with Internet Explorer's whopping 284 days. While the latter reigns as the most popular browser for U.S. users, it's clear that Mountain View, Calif.-based Mozilla is working feverishly to ensure that cyber-surfers using its system are kept safe from hackers, phishers and other online threats.
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Sunday - March 16, 2008
A small Annapolis, Md., startup is using free software developed by scores of online users to build a data storage company that it claims will be secure enough to store sensitive government data like satellite images of terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan. Exponential Storage hopes to one day persuade the National Security Agency and other government bureaus to hire the company for its data storage network.
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Wednesday - March 12, 2008
Web browsers are like surfboards for Internet users. Internet Explorer is still the most widely distributed browser, but it doesn't take much scratching beneath the surface to discover that other programs provide better protection from phishers and other cyber-criminals.
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Monday - February 25, 2008
The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group -- which claims to be the world's most attractive hacker group -- has released Goolag Scanner, an open source tool that uses Google's search engines to look for vulnerabilities in Web sites. Goolag Scanner is either a Web auditing tool that can be used by security professionals or a hacking tool that provides wicked-easy access to a wealth of information.
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Saturday - February 9, 2008
I have been using Firefox for two years. In 2006, I used PC Tools' Spyware Doctor antispyware, and in 2007 I used Webroot's Spysweeper. Neither ever found anything. I use my computer for a lot of research and am a very careful computer user, but I'm concerned that Firefox does not seem to be "covered" by those programs.
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Friday - February 8, 2008
Mozilla released an update Thursday that corrects several vulnerabilities in the Firefox Web browser. Firefox 2.0.0.12 patches critical flaws that could result in Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing; privilege escalation that could allow cross-site scripting exploits; and crashes with evidence of memory corruption.
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