Submission + - Google Taking Aim at Facebook's "Like" Button (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google is introducing the "+1" button, first in search results, soon that you can put on your own page. Look out Facebook!
Submission + - IE9 Release Candidate Attracts 2 Mln Downloads (ibtimes.com)
iamrmani writes: Microsoft said its release candidate (RC) of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) have hit 2 million downloads, just few days after its launch
Submission + - How to do security research
yakatz writes: I am a CS student and I have been looking for a good security related research project.
The trouble is I am afraid of being sanctioned for uncovering security problems in a system. Other students have been threatened with criminal prosecution by University officials (which is stopped when a tenured professor steps in). It seems to be normal now that companies sue to cover up security research instead of fixing the problem.
This story from the Washington Post only deepens my concern.
So my question is: How do you do security research without the risks of ending up in court or in jail?
The trouble is I am afraid of being sanctioned for uncovering security problems in a system. Other students have been threatened with criminal prosecution by University officials (which is stopped when a tenured professor steps in). It seems to be normal now that companies sue to cover up security research instead of fixing the problem.
This story from the Washington Post only deepens my concern.
So my question is: How do you do security research without the risks of ending up in court or in jail?
Submission + - Android Honeycomb does not require dual core (engadget.com) 1
Kohenkatz writes: In a tweet, Google's Dan Morrill has denied the previously made claim that Android 3.0 will require a Cortex A9 processor.
Comment Re:Use a different router (Score 1) 545
No, the person who was home for the installation is a noob. I was upset when I came home and found out.
Comment More Changes (Score 0) 545
Further inspection reveals that they also wiped the router's logs. The router is supposed to leg settings changes. The last stuff it has before my first login after the password change is from July 2007, even though there used to be stuff there from last time I went in.
Comment Re:I'm upset (Score 2, Informative) 545
You can't get in to my router from outside except on Verizon's maintenance port - and I didn't know they can do password changes from there.
Comment Re:Use a different router (Score 1) 545
I can't. They set me up with coax instead of CAT-5.
Comment Re:Then change your password (Score 1) 545
Maybe they were able to change it because you were too lazy to do it in 3 years.
Not lazy. I thought other precautions would be enough.
Comment Re:uhhh (Score 2, Informative) 545
I thought that blocking administrative access from WAN would have been enough.
Submission + - Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords 2
Kohenkatz writes: "I have Verizon FIOS at home and my Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password "password1" that the tech assigned to it when he set it up three years ago. I received an email from Verizon that said "we have identified that your router still had a password of either password1 or admin1 and we have changed it to your serial number." I checked and it actually had been changed. I believe this to be in response to the Black Hat presentation (http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/122259/Millions-of-Home-Routers-Are-Hackable) about the hackability of home routers. I am upset about this because Verizon should not have any way to get into my router and change the settings, especially because I own the router, not them! I looked in the router's settings and I see port 4567 goes to the router and is labeled "Verizon FIOS Service". Is this port for anything useful other than Verizon changing settings on my router? What security measures does Verizon have to protect that port from unauthorized access?"
Comment But they were approved! (Score 5, Insightful) 186
Wait, wasn't this the whole reason Apple wanted to approve apps - so they could keep the garbage out?!
Submission + - WikiMedia Is Purging Porn From Its Servers (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: The parent company of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is rapidly purging thousands of explicit pornographic images from its websites as it prepares to announce a new policy regarding sexually explicit content in response to reporting by FoxNews.com. The move came as FoxNews.com was in the process of asking dozens of companies that have donated to Wikimedia Foundation — the umbrella group behind Wikimedia Commons and its Wiki projects, including Wikipedia — if they were aware of the extent of graphic and sexually explicit content on the sites. Among the donors contacted by FoxNews.com were Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation, Best Buy, USA Networks and Craigslist.
Submission + - Verizon (Finally) Blocking Port 25 (verizon.net) 2
Kohenkatz writes: In a move that catches up to most of the rest of US ISPs, Verizon has today started blocking Port 25 for servers other than their own.
Submission + - HP to buy Palm for $1.2 Billion (nytimes.com)
Kohenkatz writes: After weeks of rumors about a buyer for Palm, HP and Palm have announced that HP will buy Palm.
