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- MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical
- It will be a very busy Patch Tuesday for administrators managing Microsoft Windows computer systems. According to Microsoft's advance notice mechanism, 11 security bulletins will drop next Tuesday (October 14, 2008), covering a wide range of serious vulnerabilities. Four of the 11 bulletins are...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Creative Commons for students
- I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for individual media. While the copyright holder is rightfully the student who created the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Home Staging Price Calculator (zip)
- The Home Staging Calculator is an HTML/JavaScript code snippet published under creative commons that allows anyone - though it is particularly appropriate for Real Estate Web sites - to display the calculator on their public Web sites. Home Staging Price Calculator uses a special algorithm and real-time price data for...
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- FBI searches Kernell apt., roommates subpoenaed
- The FBI searched the apartment of David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, suspected of breaking into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. Three of his roommates could testify before a Chattanooga grand jury. And, hey, once you've hacked the governor's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacks
- Adobe has announced plans to modify the next version of its Flash Player to use an "allow/deny" system to mitigate clipboard hijack attacks. The change will be fitted into the final version of Flash Player 10 to demand user interaction when a Shockwave (.swf) file attempts to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Apple security not ready for enterprise prime-time
- Guest editorial by Andrew Storms Last week Apple proved that they are not ready for prime time enterprise relationships. Apple has tried to position the iPhone as enterprise-ready, but this last round of software updates demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt how far...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issues
- Apple has shipped another mega-update to address security vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X users, warning that the most serious issues could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. The update, available for Tiger and Leopard, addresses a total of 34 documented vulnerabilities, some in third-party components like ClamAV,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain
- So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have joined the effort and another, Sony, has contributed an additional patent to the community. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Poker Sudoku (zip)
- Play poker? Want to improve your memory? Want a real challenge instead of the regular sudoku games? Try our 52 Poker Sudoku puzzle games and really give your brain a workout. Easy, medium, and hard levels. Published under a Creative Commons licence so you can copy and share these games...
- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- Symbol Sudoku CC (zip)
- Tired of regular sudoku? Try our Symbol Sudoku CC puzzle games varying from easy to hard and 9x9 grid to 20x20 grid sizes. Symbols include fractions, marine flags, arrows, and lines. If these symbol sudoku puzzles aren't hard enough for you then try our poker sudoku or symbol search puzzle...
- Software downloads 2008-09-11
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- MS Patch Tuesday: 8 critical security holes patched
- Microsoft shipped four high-priority security bulletins today with patches for at least eight code execution vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows computer users. The September Patch Tuesday updates, all rated "critical," correct security flaws in the Windows Media Player, the Windows Media Encoder, Microsoft Office and the Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team CERT has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Can Adobe mitigate 'clipboard hijack' issue?
- Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with with eight North American banks to deliver fraud alerts in real-time via SMS text messages and e-mails to cell phones. The pilot program will allow about 2,000 Visa cardholders to set thresholds that will trigger an immediate transaction alert...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Fedora infrastructure breach?
- Has there been a security breach in Red Hat Fedora's infrastucture systems? According to a cryptic announcement posted to the Fedora-Announce mailing list, the open-source group is investigating an unspecified "issue in the infrastructure systems" that has resulted in widespread service outages. In the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007
- Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. Late last month I wrote about the five newly released tools designed for students and academics. I was on the phone last week to an old colleague of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I've had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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