At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, hackers were invited to find and exploit holes in modern browsers. A popular target for hackers at this year’s conference was Safari on a Mac — definitely the lowest hanging fruit.
Charlie Miller explains that it’s not whether a product has holes (all of them do), its how [...]
A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
After becoming infected, the network of routers was used to launch a denial-of-service attack earlier in March against DroneBL, an organisation that maintains a DNS blacklist. Sans Institute [...]
VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser.
“It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine,” Miller said moments [...]
Apparently, Internet Explorer is on its way out. JCXP.net is saying that Internet Explorer 8 will be the last traditional version of Microsoft’s web browser, and that Microsoft’s next web browser will be based on a promising Microsoft Research project dubbed “Gazelle”.
Reading through the Microsoft Research paper on Gazelle, it becomes clear that it is [...]
globeandmail.com: Have YouTube, will travel: Australia’s experiment in social media
Have YouTube, will travel: Australia’s experiment in social mediaIt was an offer the wired generation couldn’t refuse: Earn $150,000 by relaxing on a Pacific island and blogging about it. Now, after an extensive online contest, seven Canadians are among the 50 vying for the ‘best job [...]
iTWire - Can Microsoft’s Kumo take on Google’s Sumo
Once again one of Microsoft’s worst kept secrets has been leaked, this time a new search engine called Kumo, that is supposed to especially good at searching for images. Is Kumo the saviour that Microsoft has been waiting for to take on Google’s 800 pound sumo or [...]
World’s largest Linux desktop deployment?
Calgary, Alberta-based desktop virtualization vendor Userful announced what it claims is the world’s largest deployment of Linux desktops. Working with the Brazilian government and virtual terminal vendor ThinNetworks, the company has won a contract to deploy 356,800 virtualized “Userful Multiplier” desktops to Brazilian schools.
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Hands-on: fat-free Xfce 4.6 has nice new features - Ars Technica
Ars takes a test drive with Xfce 4.6, the latest version of the popular lightweight desktop environment. Our hands-on testing reveals that this mouse can roar.
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Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com - Computerworld Blogs
The Linux Foundation has long wanted the Linux.com domain name for obvious reasons. For a long time SourceForge, formerly VA Linux Systems, kept the site, but the company has now sold Linux.com to the Foundation.
Sources close to the deal say that the deal was made because, — an [...]
