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Microsoft downplays BitLocker password leakage |
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03 Sep , 2008 - 2:46 PM - by wagnerk
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 Microsoft downplays BitLocker password leakage
Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is “very unlikely.”
According to an advisory from iViZ, the password checking routine of Microsoft Bitlocker fails to sanitize the BIOS keyboard buffer after reading passwords, resulting in plain text password leakage to unprivileged local users.
Read the whole story here.
-Ken
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Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw |
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03 Sep , 2008 - 2:43 PM - by wagnerk
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 Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.
Raff has cooked up a harmless demo of the attack in action, showing how a Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning.
Read the whole story here.
-Ken
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Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing |
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01 Sep , 2008 - 6:05 PM - by wagnerk
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 Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing
One feature that has raised eyebrows among Web professionals is called InPrivate Browsing. According to Microsoft, this tool allows users to control whether Internet Explorer stores their web browsing history, and keeps cookies and other information. This feature in particular it is troubling to many in online marketing, as the use of “cookies,” or small informational files that are stored on the user’s computer, have become an important part of tracking the use of products and services online.
Internet Explorer 8 will also feature a Delete Browsing tool, which helps users to control their browsing history immediately after visiting a web site that gathers user information. The downside of this feature is that it could easily become quite annoying. These days, pretty much every web site online collects statistical user information. Most of this information is used only for statistical analysis of web page popularity, to determine the global location of visitors, or to understand which search terms they used in order to find a web page.
Read the whole article here.
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Price reduction on retiring exams (and VS/SQL upgrade exams) |
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01 Sep , 2008 - 7:42 AM - by wagnerk
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Price reduction on retiring exams (and VS/SQL upgrade exams)
Complete your Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), or Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification or upgrade your certifications to Visual Studio 2005 or SQL Server 2005 with a 40 percent automatic price reduction on retiring and upgrade exams. The price reduction is valid on:
1. All exams scheduled to retire on March 31, 2009
2. Upgrade exams from MCAD and MCSD to Visual Studio 2005 and from MCDBA to SQL Server 2005 MCITP... you benefit from the shorter upgrade path AND you get set up for another upgrade path to 2008
This is not an “offer,” meaning you don’t need a code or voucher or anything. To get the reduced price, you just register like usual with Prometric at any worldwide location. Across the board, all of the exams listed below will be priced 40% less than the normal price, permanently. We’re doing this to encourage people to finish up their MCAD, MCSD, or MCDBA certifications before the underlying exams retire. And, of course we want to encourage people who have certifications on older technologies to upgrade.
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802.11r - R is for Rapid |
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31 Aug , 2008 - 5:05 PM - by wagnerk
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 802.11r - R is for Rapid
802.11r ratification is the most important standard to hit the Wi-Fi industry in a long time - yes, even more important than 802.11n. 802.11i was sorely lacking - giving us only fast roam-back (to an AP to which your client was previously associated) and preauthentication, which is slow and rarely supported by WLAN infrastructure providers. In the absence of a standard, many WLAN infrastructure vendors (Motorola, Colubris, Aruba, Cisco, Meru, etc.) have been using Opportunistic Key Caching (OKC) - also called Opportunistic PMK Caching. Both the client device and the WLAN infrastructure have to support this for it to work, and on laptop computers, that gives us only Microsoft's WZC client and Juniper's Odyssey client. While both are popular, they don't represent the entire industry - not even half when you consider how many appliances like VoWiFi phones there are in the market.
Now that 802.11r is upon us, I predict (read: guarantee) that all WLAN infrastructure providers will adopt it into their WLAN infrastructure code as fast as they possibly can. Further, we will see client software support for 802.11r protocols little-by-little over the next 12 months until pretty much all client software and appliances (Wi-Fi badges, handsets, handhelds, scanners, etc.) all support it. As an industry, how can we not? Fast, secure roaming - called... [Read More]
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Linux sales dip as corporates buy more mainframes |
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30 Aug , 2008 - 1:27 PM - by wagnerk
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 Linux sales dip as corporates buy more mainframes
Sales of Linux-based servers decreased by 1.8% over the year, the first time this operating system has suffered a dip in revenue since the first quarter of 2002, according to analyst IDC's second quarter EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker 2008.
Beatriz Valle, research analyst at IDC, said, "Corporates have been replacing their legacy systems and they have not been migrating to Linux x86 servers." Instead, she said enterprise users have been buying scalable Risc and Itanium-based hardware and mainframes.
The sales figures also show that IT directors are struggling to make the most of whatever budget is left over at the end of the year. Sales of high-end servers and IBM z-series mainframes were particularly high, suggesting that IT directors in major companies used their remaining budget in the last quarter of 2007 to buy mainframes and other high priced server hardware.
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-Ken
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