In honor and recognition of the phenominal work of Charles P. Thacker, the Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the Xerox PARC alumnus with the 2009 A.M. Turing Award. Thacker, creator of the Alto, the first modern personal computer [also cited was his co-creation of Ethernet Networking, in, and of itself, one of the great [...]
Snow: Trust The Cloud, Do Not
Brian Snow, respected, former United States National Security Agency IA Chief, unequivocally voices what we have always known: Trust the cloud – Not… More information, including a short snip of the original post, appears after the post. Read More »
Turing Award Winner: Creator of Modern Personal Computer – Charles P. Thacker
In honor and recognition of the phenominal work of Charles P. Thacker, the Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the Xerox PARC alumnus with the 2009 A.M. Turing Award. Thacker, creator of the Alto, the first modern personal computer [also cited was his co-creation of Ethernet Networking, in, and of itself, one of the great inventions of the last century]. After all, the network IS the computer, right? The full announcement appears after the jump. Congratulations Dr. Thacker! Read More »
Blatant Stupidity: The Charney Tax
With friends like this, who needs enemies? Proof positive, with Executive Genius as displayed by Scott Charney [VP of Microsoft Corporation's (NasdaqGS: MSFT) absurdist 'Trusted Computing Group'] will not exist in 30 years… The Charney Tax. More information, and of course, obligatory linkage, appears after the jump. Now, where’s my teeth… Read More »
The Four Billion Dollar Hacker
Excoriation time… Focusing it’s mighty lens of scrutiny on the ‘founder’ of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the UK’s Daily Mail creates a rather small ripple in the sea of iniquity, swimming with scum of the earth – aka Northern California’s Silicon Valley… A short snippet of the sorry tail, and allegations of nefarious conduct by Zuckerberg, appears after the jump. Somehow, we’ve always know something like this would come to light, didn’t you?
New OpenSSL Vulnerability Negates Public Key Cryptographic Underpinnings
News, via The Register’s highly respected US based correspondent - Dan Goodin, of severe vulnerabilities extant in the widely deployed Open Source Software OpenSSL secure tunneling interface… University of Michigan computer scientists have cracked the public key cryptologic underpinnings of the product. The fix entails properly salting the internal error checking subsystem. More information (inclusive of linkage to the soon-to-be-published paper) appears after the page jump. Read More »
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- Chip Bok: Death Panel
- The Four Billion Dollar Hacker
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- US Army Network Warfare Battalion Activated
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- Firefox Extension NoScript Can Protect You Against ClickJacking
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- Dinosaur Comics: Oscar
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Cryptography
- Cryptographers Warn About Security Dangers in the Cloud at RSA 2010/03/10
- 1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity 2010/03/09
- Second generation quantum cryptography in developement 2010/03/09
- Blog - Theoretical Breakthrough For Quantum Cryptography 2010/03/08
- Ok, Be Afraid if Someone's Got a Voltmeter Hooked to Your CPU 2010/03/08
- RSA: Cryptographers discuss wisdom of 'foolishness' 2010/03/06
- Former NSA tech chief: I don't trust the cloud 2010/03/05
- 'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto 2010/03/04
- RSA 2010: Cryptographers tout the virtue of foolishness 2010/03/04
- NSA, cryptoexperts jab at RSA Conference Cryptographers' Panel 2010/03/03
SANS ISC
- What's My Firewall Telling Me? (Part 4), (Wed, Mar 10th) 2010/03/10
- Microsoft Security Advisory 981374 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability for IE6 and IE7, (Wed, Mar 10th) 2010/03/10
- March 2010 - Microsoft Patch Tuesday Diary, (Tue, Mar 9th) 2010/03/09
- Samurai WTF 0.8, (Mon, Mar 8th) 2010/03/09
- Vodafone Android Phone: Complete with Mariposa Malware, (Tue, Mar 9th) 2010/03/09
- Energizer Malware, (Tue, Mar 9th) 2010/03/09
- SEO poisoning on TV show, (Mon, Mar 8th) 2010/03/08
- Microsoft announced two important bulletins (fixing multiple vulns. affecting Windows and Office) for tomorrow: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-mar.mspx, (Mon, Mar 8th) 2010/03/08
Oracle
- 11gr2 new awr reports for Real Application Clusters 2010/03/10
- E-Business Suite Cloning Basics & AMP 2010/03/10
- Blocking Tools from using the database 2010/03/10
- Developers Against Inappropriate Concatenation 2010/03/10
- upgrade 10.1.2.x to 10.1.2.3: Oracle Internet Directory Patch Configuration Assistant fails 2010/03/10
- Multiple OBIEE Environments 2010/03/10
- Apache James on IBM AIX 2010/03/10
MySQL
- Why Should I Check Out a MySQL-Based Column Database ? 2010/02/12
- A deep look at MySQL 5.5 partitioning enhancements 2009/12/24
- Sun "Tech Days" Conference World Tour Kicks Off in Brazil 2009/12/07
- Tino Rachui: Using MySQL Cluster in Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 2009/11/10
- MySQL Database Analytics with InfiniDB from Calpont – Part 2 2009/10/28
- MySQL Database Analytics with InfiniDB from Calpont – Part 1 2009/10/27
- What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release? - Interview with Mark Matthews and Andy Bang 2009/09/08
Linux
- Top 7 Things You Should Know About Activation and Genuine Windows - TechRepublic 2010/03/10
- Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac reigns in benchmark comparison tests - Macworld UK 2010/03/10
- Gates Asked for IP Royalties for OpenOffice from Sun Microsystems - Softpedia 2010/03/10
- Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing - The H 2010/03/10
- Active Media Products unveils SaberTooth ZT ZIF SSD - SlashGear (blog) 2010/03/10
MAC OSX
- Publisher Fights Apple over nip-slip iPhone app 2010/03/10 Nicole Martinelli
- Report: Apple Wants 5M iPads During First Half of 2010 2010/03/10 Ed Sutherland
- Verizon: iPad Will Help Sell More MiFi Devices 2010/03/10 Ed Sutherland
- iTunes LP is a failure, but Apple never really cared about it anyway 2010/03/10 John Brownlee
- “Tweet Defense” uses your Twitter statistics to kill zombies 2010/03/10 John Brownlee
- eBooks now outnumber games on the App Store 2010/03/10 John Brownlee
- Capcom’s “Street Fighter IV” now available on the App Store 2010/03/10 John Brownlee
Microsoft
- March 2010 Security Bulletin Release 2010/03/09 MSRCTEAM
- Security Advisory 981374 Released 2010/03/09 MSRCTEAM
- March 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification 2010/03/04 MSRCTEAM
- Update: MS10-015 security update re-released with new detection logic 2010/03/02 MSRCTEAM
- Security Advisory 981169 Released 2010/03/01 MSRCTEAM
- Investigating a new win32hlp and Internet Explorer issue 2010/03/01 MSRCTEAM
- Update - Restart Issues After Installing MS10-015 and the Alureon Rootkit 2010/02/18 MSRCTEAM
Network
- Cisco shows off Internet super-router 2010/03/10
- Asus Home Server TS mini review 2010/03/09
- Microsoft shuffles web browsers on ballot screen 2010/03/09
- US lifts Internet sanctions on Iran, Sudan, Cuba 2010/03/09
- Internet Explorer 6 buried in funeral 2010/03/08
- Ex-Novell CTO becomes W3C chief 2010/03/08
- TalkTalk upgrades broadband up to 24Mbps 2010/03/05
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