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Submission + - New hole discovered in Windows Encryption (israelnationalnews.com)

Submitted by awacs on Monday November 12, 2007 @03:40PM

awacs writes: Haifa U. researchers found a new hole in Windows 2000. The exploit, which involves deducing generated random numbers to crack encryption, may also appear in XP and Vista. The exploit not only allows cracking of future encrypted sessions, but also of past information stored and even items no longer on the computer, the article says. There's a white paper available for download at http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/419

Comment Re:Complexity (Score 1) 223

by awacs on Friday June 15, 2007 @12:53AM (#19515559) Attached to: PC Call Centers Garner Lowest Satisfaction Score

"Why is this so hard to understand? Moving to another desktop won't help since Ubuntu is trying to use a video mode that the monitor doesn't understand. If it can't show the initial desktop, why would changing to another desktop help?"

Because the text-only desktop plays by different rules. Even if your GUI is toast, you can (probably) still use text.

Submission + - How IT makes you productive

Submitted by BeerBuddy on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:38AM

BeerBuddy writes: In a path breaking study reported in Computerworld, researchers at Boston University and MIT analyzed how IT makes people more productive. They gathered more than 125,000 email messages, 5 years of project data, and survey responses to see what factors predicted revenue generation and completed projects. Read the originals here and here. Among the surprises, IT didn't necessarily make projects faster but it did dramatically increase productivity by facilitating multitasking. They also found that IT-supported social networks predicted productivity better than experience. Now you can tell your boss the project's late but your productivity is up, and beers with the buddies really matter!

Submission + - Microsoft to Buy Medical Search Engine

Submitted by navygeek on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:37AM

navygeek writes: Microsoft's drive into the health care market is just getting under way, but the company signaled on Monday that one important ingredient in its plan will be a specialized search engine tailored to deliver useful medical information to consumers.

Submission + - Do we need a light-up, talking Rubik's Cube? Yes.

Submitted by William Casey on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:32AM

William Casey writes: Ars Technica was able to get their hands on a production sample of the soon-to-be-released Rubik's Revolution. If you thought the original was a pain in the butt this update adds six games, digital voices, and light up buttons. Does the world really need an electronic Rubik's Cube?

Submission + - Is there value in the SMART monitoring technology?

Submitted by

Khuffie

on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:57AM

Khuffie writes: "Ars Technicha has a very interesting writeup regarding a study made by Google about hard-drive failures and SMART technology. Their findings? SMART wasn't a very effective way of predicting hard-drive failure, and that contrary to popular belief, "drive failures did not increase with high temperatures or CPU utilization"."

Submission + - EMI: ditching DRM to cost you

Submitted by 33rpm on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:54AM

33rpm writes: EMI has told online music stores that selling its catalog without DRM is going to cost them a lot of money. 'EMI is the only major record label to seriously consider abandoning the disaster that is DRM, but earlier reports that focused on the company's reformist attitude apparently missed the mark: EMI is willing to lose the DRM, but they demand a considerable advance payment to make it happen. EMI has backed out of talks for now because no one will pay what they're asking.'

Submission + - Release for the recovery of deleted photos

Submitted by

mmyrtle

on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:45AM

mmyrtle writes: "In order to Recover deleted photos from your memory card can be almost impossible. Now you will be able to download a software to your computer and restore deleted photos easily. DeleteFIX for Photo will let you see what can be recovered in the free version. That way you will not have to buy the product if for some reason after reviewing the pictures you decide you don't want them.

DeleteFIX for Photo will recover photos from Usb, compact flash, memory and digital camera cards as well as your hard disc.

This software does not require any technical skills. You can recover deleted pictures from digital cameras, memory cards or any other media easily with a few clicks of the mouse. Deleted files and photo files are retrieved to your computer so you can organize them directly after restoring them. The software includes a money back guarantee for those who are not satisfied with the results of the product. Overall a very usefull Software program."

An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little 58

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:15AM from the from-the-smallest-mustard-seeds dept.

The Firehose brought us a link from the NYTimes about Quigo. As the Times feed says: "Yahoo and Google are facing a challenge from a tiny adversary named Quigo Technologies over contextual text ads online." And while obviously not in the same financial league, it is good to see more competition in this space.

Campaign Sites Full of Vulnerabilities 36

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:50AM from the not-surprising dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bloggers have been buzzing about the new wave of "Web 2.0" campaign sites, but it seems that a lot of presidential candidates haven't bothered to protect themselves from cross-site scripting attacks. A blogger has found a collection of XSS vulnerabilities including the websites of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, John Cox, Newt Gingrich, Tom Tancredo, the Democratic National Committee, and even a surprise from Whitehouse.gov. Some of the holes are low-risk, but others would allow a user's accounts on the affected website to be compromised. A victim would simply have to click on a maliciously crafted link that appears to lead to the candidate's site."

Submission + - Metasploit running on embedded devices

Submitted by on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:43AM

An anonymous reader writes: Its seems that security researcher David Maynor has gotten the popular open source security tool Metasploit to run on the Nokia N800 internet tablet. Since the N800 runs uses Linux as its OS all that was required was a ruby interpreter. Maynor shows pictures of breaking into a Windows 2000 machine from the N800. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=54

Submission + - Ontario pulls subliminal gambling machines

Submitted by

davecb

on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:07AM

davecb writes: "Gambling machines made by a particular vendor have been pulled from Ontario casinos: it turns out that instead of a random sequence of cards shown before the (hopefully!) random result, every machine displays a 5-card maximum jackpot for just long enough to be recognizable.

Does this remind you, perhaps, of voting machines made by a certain video-gambling-machine vendor?"

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