Apple’s Leopard lasts ‘30 seconds’ in hack contest:
“It might have taken eight minutes to sit down and open the computer but, when the competition started, 30 seconds later, it was over,” said Miller….Competitors in the hacking race were allowed to choose either a Sony laptop running Ubuntu 7.10, a Fujitsu laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 [...]
CanSecWest Applied Security Conference: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
Three targets, all patched. All in typical client configurations with typical user configurations.You hack it, you get to keep it.
Each has a file on them and it contains the instructions and how to claim the prize. Targets (typical road-warrior clients):
VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10
Fujitsu U810 running Vista [...]
I just trashed Apple (again). I’m fair and balanced. Let’s not leave out MS exploitable code…
Hackers Exploit Access Database Flaw:
In its brief warning, US-CERT offered few details on the attack, saying simply that the organization is “aware of active exploitation” of the problem by criminals who have sent specially crafted Microsoft Access Database (.mdb) files [...]
Microsoft softens response to piracy:
In the new version [of Genuine Advantage], PC users found to have a pirated copy of Vista will continue to be able to use their computers, but with unmistakable signs their operating system is a fake. The desktop wallpaper will turn black, and a white notice will appear alerting users to [...]
I tried posting this the other day but firefox crashed and took deepest sender with it.
I thought the hype for Silverlight was overblown. I finally installed it so I could try out Microsoft’s new tafiti search site.
I’m almost sold. First my impressions of Silverlight: it’s pretty jazzy. That comes at a price, of course. I’m [...]
Skype outage caused by download update:
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.
iRobot sues Robot FX over alleged patent infringement:
It looks like Robot FX has [...]
Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch has an interesting take on recent deals Microsoft has struck with companies like Novell, Linspire, Xandros, Fuji/Xerox, JBoss, and Samsung.
…Microsoft’s child-like “that’s mine” attitude about intellectual property and patent violation claims against open source doesn’t explain the company’s resistance to Red Hat. The question to ask: Whose intellectual property rights [...]
I wrote a couple months ago about why I was reluctant to support GPLv3. Now that the final draft is out, I’m more firmly against it.
OBJECTION 1: The “anti-Tivoization” clauses deal with hardware issues, not software issues. Tivo has released back code changes per the requirements of GPLv2. They haven’t done anything to violate the [...]
Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, answered questions from IT Business Edge about Microsoft’s claims that Linux and other open source software violate 235 MS patents. He says,
Microsoft itself is actually on the record as saying the software patent system in this country has problems. [Microsoft General Counsel] Brad Smith last year called on [...]
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