Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
HP is suing ex-CEO Mark Hurd a day after he was hired by Oracle, saying he cannot serve as Oracle's co-president without violating a confidentiality clause in his severance package. - Hewlett-Packard reportedly is suing former CEO
Mark Hurd to stop him from taking a position with rival Oracle.
HP sued Hurd Sept. 7 in the Superior Court of California in Santa
Clara after Oracle officials announced Sept. 6 the company
was hiring
Hurd as co-president. Hurd signed a confidentia...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Consumer gadget maker Archos Aug. 31 unveiled five tablets based on Google's Android 2.2 operating system. The devices sport touch screens ranging from 2.8 inches to 10.1 inches and meet an array of budgets, from $99.99 to $349.99. Archos is looking to capitalize on some of the success Apple's iPad has enjoyed in selling more than 3 million units since it launched in April. However, the Archos devices support video calling and Adobe Flash, functionality the iPad lacks. Archos also is challenging devices such as Dell's Streak hybrid communicator and Samsung's Galaxy Tab, slated for release this month. This eWEEK slide show offers readers quick glimpses of the Archos 28, 32, 43, 70 and 101 model tablets. - ...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Google's music service plans are crystallizing in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker to challenge Apple iTunes in the digital music market. - Google signaled its intent to go after Apple's iTunes
dynasty in May when it quietly revealed
it had acquired Simplify Media to add for Android smartphones.
Simplify Media
provides an efficient way for users to take music they own on
their desktop that isn't copy-protected and stream it to a...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded the famed Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) research institution to look into the creation of a new Internet architecture. - PARC, a Xerox company, recently announced it is on one of four project teams chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue ways to build a more trustworthy and robust Internet.
According to the NSF, the new “Future Internet Architecture” (FIA)
program is focused on collaborative, long...
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Posted in Network World on September 7th, 2010 by NetworkWorld
Microsoft is looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts.
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company's Apple iPad competitor, could be priced anywhere from $200 to more than $1,000, according to leaks. That raises questions about Samsung's tablet strategy. - Samsung's Galaxy Tab, one of the first Android-powered tablets to challenge
the Apple iPad, will be priced at $200. Or it could be $400. Or even a cool
$1,000, if you choose to buy the carrier-unlocked version.
In other words, pricing information for the device has begun to leak
online much of i...
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Posted in SANS on September 7th, 2010 by ISC Handler
We've been writing about SSH brute force attempts for numerous times already. A lot of security researchers are collecting various information about such brute force attacks and numerous other tools exist that can prevent or block them.
DRG (Dragon Research Group), which is a volunteer research organization dedicated to further understanding of online criminality and to provide actionable intelligence for the benefit of the entire Internet community, last month published a very nice paper about such SSH brute force attempts. Among the other things, the paper lists a whole bunch of tools that can be used in order to limit or block SSH brute force attempts, and configuration recommendations that will help you increase security of your SSH installations. Check the paper at http://www.dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/sshpwauth-tac.html
Additionally, DRG is also publishing a list of IP addresses of SSH attackers that were detected on various pods DRG uses, that are spread around the world. This list is available at http://www.dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/sshpwauth.txt.
DRG also created a very cool tag cloud showing most common usernames and passwords that have been tried in latest SSH brute force attacks. The cloud is available at http://www.dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/sshpwauth-cloud.html - check it make sure there arent any of your passwords there :). Both the list and the cloud are updated every hour.
More information about DRG is available at http://www.dragonresearchgroup.org/ and Im sure they could use more pod runners.
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
The decision by popular online marketplace Craigslist to remove the Adult Services section sparks a debate as to whether the company's free speech rights are under fire. - Following pressure from state governments and conservative and religious
groups, the popular online marketplace Craigslist placed a black quot;Censored quot;
bar over the section previously labeled quot;Adult Services, quot; sparking a
heated debated online and in the media as to whether the co...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
A survey of businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from Brocade finds a majority of companies view IT consolidation as critical to future success. - In a bid to increase network performance, simplify management and enhance
business efficiency, more than three-quarters of enterprises across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT
infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to a report commissi...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Samsung Electronics' Orion processor is designed to handle rich media applications like HD video playback and 3D games; it features a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores. - Semiconductor solutions specialist Samsung Electronics has introduced its
1GHz Arm Cortex A9-based dual-core application processor, code-named Orion, for
advanced mobile applications. The dual-processor chip platform was designed
specifically to meet the needs of high-performance, low-power mobil...
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