The successful unauthorized breach of a security perimeter. See penetration test.
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- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?
- Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar's countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer. Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There's an engine, transmission, battery and...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent
- John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Mobile Internet Penetration Across Countries
- Country Mobile Internet Penetration US 15.6% UK 12.9% Italy 11.9% Russia 11.2% Spain 10.8% France 9.6% Germany 7.4% China 6.8% Brazil 2.6% India 1.8% Source: Nielsen by NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Â Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Measuring (not so) recent BIND nameserver patching
- Guest editorial by Derek Callaway This post is meant to provide an approximation of BIND nameserver updates that occurred during the past month, most likely in response to Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. I conducted this research because I was curious as to how widely BIND...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- 20 laptops or 40 desktops?
- 20 laptops or 40 desktops?Desktops.Five reasons.1) Teachers have functional if aging laptops already. Yes, shiny new is great, it's about education.2) Desktops tend to walk out of the school a lot less than laptops. I think it is because they don't have the little feet to prop them...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!
- No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!Why LiMo? Interested in your reasons.[i]Roll on LiMo. My next cellphone will, without a doubt, be a LiMo.[/i]Can I ask why? No ulterior motives, I'm just wondering why I should hold off on buying an HTC Touch Diamond, hold off on Android, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?Always proofread your article......before submitting. :)"While I wouldn’t consider HD penetration to be at majority levels yet, enough households have do them..."You neglected to mention another possibility.Why bother to watch when you already know who's won?The biggest factor is... imo that NBC...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
- My ZDNet colleagues Tom Steinert-Threlkeld and Ryan Stewart ran the raw numbers on Olympics online viewership. While the amount of traffic on the videos over the weekend was impressive -- 3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average visit of 15 minutes...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3
- The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network mapping, information gathering, vulnerability identification, forensics, and reverse engineering. Vincent Danen tells you how to create a portable version on a USB keychain.
- Download resources 2008-08-11
- IBM's clever idea is Linux on a stick
- IBM's clever idea is Linux on a stickGood Lord. Paleeze get a Laptop already! ;)Or, did you get one and not tell us????.............RE: IBM's clever idea is Linux on a stickWhen IBM have everything under control....linux will be next.RE: IBM's clever idea is Linux on a stickHuh? That's only been...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?
- Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?This isn't even strictly a Beta Tester issueMicrosoft realised that MCE systems just weren't flying out the door and then correctly perceived that it makes more sense to bundle it with Vista so that OEMs can either make a "home entertainment center"...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move
- LAS VEGAS -- Starting in October, Microsoft will start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of Patch Tuesday under a daring new program aimed at reducing the window of exposure to hacker attacks. The new Microsoft Active Protections Program MAPP, which will be formally...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Rumor Mill: iPhone nano in time for Christmas
- About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK's Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just in time for the holiday shopping season: The product will be launched in the UK at up to £150 for pay-as-you-go customers by O2, the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Intacct reports record growth: the analysis
- The other week, I started compiling a spreadsheet that shows the relative pricing for SaaS accounting style applications. It's not meant to be sophisticated but provide an indication of the range of solutions and pricing models offered in this segment of the SaaS market. To my eternal shame, I omitted...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Wanted: Alcatel-Lucent new leaders to fix merger debacle
- Wanted: Alcatel-Lucent new leaders to fix merger debacleRelying on CDMA sales? LOL. CDMA is dead.Verizon Half of Sprint Nextel is IDEN, Japans' KDD, Korea Telecom, and India's Tata TeleServices are the last remaining CDMA strong holds. The rest of the world has moved to GSM and related technologies and this...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
- Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability
- WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liabilitybluetooth aint infra-redhowdy mr. murphy,um, er, your said ..."Bluetooth (the infra-red communication standard for mobile phones)"... and that's SO wrong! [*grin*] i dang near snorted my iced tea thru my nose. it's 2.4ghz radio. lookee ...http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Technology/Works/Compare/take care,leeRE: WiFi, Cancer, and Legal LiabilityGiven the penetration of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-26
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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