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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 + - Stable Open Source NTFS After 12 Years of Work

Submitted by

irgu

on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:53AM

irgu writes: "Open source NTFS development started in 1995 by Martin von Loewis under Linux, which was taken over by Anton Altaparmakov in 2000. Two years ago Apple hired Altaparmakov to work on Mac OS X and made a deal with the team to relicense the code and return the new one, soonest in the spring of 2008. But the team also continued the work and Szabolcs Szakacsits announced the read/write NTFS-3G driver for beta testing last year. Only half year passed and NTFS-3G reached the stable status and has been already ported to FreeBSD, Mac OS X, BeOS, Haiku, 64-bit and big-endian architectures, and new CPU's!"

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

Tricking Vista's UAC To Hide Malware 221

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:42AM from the protective-coloration dept.

Vista's User Account Control, love it or hate it, represents a barrier against unwanted software getting run on users' computers. A Symantec researcher has found a simple way to spoof UAC and says that it shouldn't be completely trusted. The trick is to disguise the UAC warning dialog in the color associated with alerts generated by Windows itself.

Feed Best Indie Games 2007 (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:12AM

Innovation comes from below. To find the weirdest new forms of play, look to independent designers. Commentary by Clive Thompson.

Feed Software Tool of Pirates Gets Work in Hollywood (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday February 26, 2007 @02:12AM

Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent.

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