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Submission + - Apple Under Pressure to Fix 'Carpet Bomb' Flaw

Submitted by

picking sixth

on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @08:57PM

picking sixth writes: "The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by researcher Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Apple has classified Dhanjani's findings as more of an annoyance than a Safari security vulnerability but StopBadware is applying pressure on Apple to "reconsider its stance and treat this as the security issue that it is.""

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New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced 322

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 19, 2008 @03:19PM from the too-many-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo. The distribution, which has been underway for a couple of months and is based on ideas and experiences from his long work with Gentoo, features a new packaging format and several subprojects, such as a redesigned init system. Currently no installation medium is available but their package tree is public for the daring ones who want to play with the upcoming distribution. The developers strongly discourage any serious use though, as it's still highly experimental."

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Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation 110

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @07:02PM from the click-here-but-only-once dept.

bsk_cw writes "Today, many Linux users are getting blasé about the ease with which they can install Linux. Possibly, they've been spoiled by distributions such as Ubuntu, which is actually easier to install than Windows. Unfortunately, Fedora 9, the latest version of this community edition of Red Hat, was a bit too much of a blast from the past for Computerworld's James Turner." (Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)

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Submission + - Briefs Made Public in AMD v. Intel Anti-Trust Case

Submitted by chunk08 on Monday May 05, 2008 @11:00PM

chunk08 writes: The Register reports that heavily-censored versions of the "preliminary pre-trial briefs" in AMD's anti-trust suit have been made public. AMD alleges that Intel engaged in a number of anti-competitive practices, including price-fixing, paying OEMs to be Intel-exclusive in either their whole business or in certain market segments, and distributing a compiler designed to degrade the performance of programs running on AMD processors.

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Submission + - Scholarships for a Computer Science degree

Submitted by chunk08 on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @06:51PM

chunk08 writes: I am a graduating high school senior who will be attending a highly ranked national college in the fall to pursue a BS in Computer Science. I have excellent grades and standardized test scores. I am looking for scholarships, especially corporate-sponsored scholarships. Can the slashdot crowd suggest any scholarships I should apply for? I am a white male, which precludes many of the IT related scholarships. I am in no way adverse to writing essays/code.

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Journal Journal: MySpace to open online music store

Journal by chunk08 on Thursday April 03, 2008 @06:02PM

The Register reports that MySpace will open an online music store with Universal, Warner, and Sony BMG. (EMI has not yet signed on.) MySpace will use its tremendous presence in the music landscape to market DRM free downloads from major labels. The service will start up as a separate company based in Los Angeles, California.

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Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback 95

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 03, 2008 @04:54PM from the oldies-but-goodies dept.

Ant writes "Ars Technica says Panda Labs' first quarter 2008 malware report raises a new concern, though it comes from a surprising direction. According to the company, boot sector viruses loaded with rootkits are poised to make a comeback. This honestly sounds a bit odd, considering how long it has been since a boot virus has topped the malware charts, but it's at least theoretically possible (pdf). Such viruses have a simple method of operation. The virus copies itself into the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard drive, and rewrites the actual MBR data in a different section of the drive. The report also covers a number of other topics and makes predictions about the types of attacks computer users may see in the future. Forecasting these trends is always tricky."

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Last Year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins 337

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 29, 2008 @11:02AM from the tough-nut-to-crack dept.

DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that "Last year's winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year's competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint's blog, Shane Macaulay used a new 0day exploit against Adobe Flash in order to secure his win. At the end of the day, the only laptop (of OS X, Vista, and Ubuntu) that remained unharmed was the one running Ubuntu. How's that for fueling religious platform wars?"

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