Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by New Scientist - Online News
Combining radio transmissions can help robots maintain communications, confounding hostile jammers and overcoming obstacles
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Three out of five companies are adopting cloud computing technologies, including private clouds and lower-risk technologies, says a new report. In an e-mail interview with eWEEK, outsourcing expert TPI explains the results of its study. - Almost four out of five companies are discussing
and evaluating how to take advantage of cloud computing technologies, according
to a report by Houston-based outsourcer TPI. Seventy-eight percent of 140 IT
managers surveyed by TPI fit in this category, yet a smaller number are
actually adopting ...
Posted in technology on July 30th, 2010 by Yahoo! News: Security News
AP - An FBI official said Friday a two-year-long multinational investigation led them to nab a 23-year-old Slovenian, who allegedly created a malicious software code that infected 12 million computers worldwide.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by Computer Security News
Share + Comments Jul 30, 2010 6:11 am US/Eastern Reporting Chris Wragge With more than 1 billion people logging on to social networking sites and sharing their personal information daily, authorities say it's no wonder these sites are becoming the targets of con artists.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by LinuxSecurity.com
LinuxSecurity.com: A security researcher named Barnaby Jack amazed attendees at the Black Hat security conference by hacking ATM machines in a session titled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines Redux". There are some important lessons to be learned from the hacks Jack demonstrated, and they apply to more than just ATM machines.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by LinuxSecurity.com
LinuxSecurity.com: In an effort to help Android developers address ongoing worries about unauthorized app copying, Google this week announced a licensing service for apps in the Android Market.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by LinuxSecurity.com
LinuxSecurity.com: A security expert found a way to catch the talks at Black Hat for free, thanks to bugs in the video streaming service used by the security conference. Michael Coates, the head of Web security for Mozilla, said he discovered several problems while trying to sign up for the US$395 service.
Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
In a new social recommendation beta from Amazon and Facebook, when Amazon users click on the recommendations link from their Amazon home page, they can opt to connect the social network with Amazon to enhance the shopping experience. - It's just a small button on Amazon users' recommendation Web pages, but the
e-commerce giant's integration with Facebook Connect could light the torch for
a major social shopping shift.
Beginning this week, when Amazon users click on the recommendations link
from their Amazon home page, they see...
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by Full Disclosure
Posted by Valdis . Kletnieks on Jul 30
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:37:25 +0200, Christian Sciberras said:It may not help security *directly*, but there's several indirect benefits:
1) If the person posting has to know how the damned thing works, they might
actually *notice* when they get pwned and not let it fester for weeks on end.
2) Smaller attack surface - if I'm running *just* an Apache instance without a
lot of complicated mod_* bells and whistles, and using stuff like vi to...
Posted in ISC on July 30th, 2010 by ISC Handler
Wireshark released an update to fix multiple vulnerabilities in version 1.2.0. to 1.2.9. This release fixes several bugs. Wireshark indicated that It may be possible to make Wireshark crash, hang, or execute code by injecting a series of malformed packets onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
References for the 1.2.x branch:
Release announcement is available here.
Release Notes and bug fixes is available here.
Reference for the 1.0.x branch:
Release announcement is available here.
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot org (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
References for the 1.2.x branch:
Release announcement is available here.
Release Notes and bug fixes is available here.
Reference for the 1.0.x branch:
Release announcement is available here.
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot org (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.