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Submission + - Dems Dominate Contributions from Tech Types (baselinemag.com)

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on Friday December 28, 2007 @02:21PM

buzzardsbay writes: "Baseline Magazine did a clever slice-and-dice of the federal campaign filings to come up with a list of presidential candidates who get the most money from folks who work in the tech industry. Ron Paul may get a lot of money from online contributors, but it's Hillary and Obama who lead the pack in techie contributions."

Submission + - iPhone Shellcode Hits the Web (techtarget.com)

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on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @11:07AM

buzzardsbay writes: "Dennis Fisher at Tech Target is reporting that Apple is finally getting a chance to find out what it feels like to walk a mile in Microsoft's shoes. First, a New Jersey teenager published detailed instructions for unlocking the iPhone, and now a well-known security researcher has posted shellcode that can be used on the popular device."

Submission + - Apple's Woz Has Harsh Words for Open Source (eweek.com)

Submitted by buzzardsbay on Monday September 24, 2007 @02:00PM

buzzardsbay writes: In a rollicking interview with eWEEK magazine, Apple guru Steve Wozniak dishes on Jobs, the iPhone and, ultimately, open source, saying: "There's always a group of people that wants to undo the forces of industry that have given us so much in terms of wealth, and there's always people who want things to be free. The open-source movement starts with those sort of people." Woz does concede that open source has "good points that have nothing to do with whether it's free or not." And he was wearing a nixie-tube watch, so how much can you really dislike him?

Submission + - Microsoft continues to amass security brain trust (techtarget.com)

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on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @03:24PM

buzzardsbay writes: "The good folks at Information Security Magazine are reporting that Microsoft recently poached Jakub Kaminski, one of CA's more talented and well-regarded antivirus researchers, along with three of his colleagues from CA's Australian lab. In the last year or so, Microsoft has made waves in the anti-malware community by hiring some of the top talent in the industry away from competitors such as Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. Is this an effort to improve their security efforts or silence their critics?"

Submission + - New Hack Exploits Common Programming Error (techtarget.com)

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on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:37AM

buzzardsbay writes: "TechTarget's security editor, Dennis Fisher is reporting that researchers at Watchfire Inc. have discovered a reliable method for exploiting a common programming error, which until now had been considered simply a quality problem and not a security vulnerability. According to the article, the researchers stumbled upon the method for remotely exploiting dangling pointers by chance while they were running the company's AppScan software against a Web server. The good folks at Watchfire will detail the technique in a presentation at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas in August, Fisher writes."

Submission + - Time to spike Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

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on Thursday May 10, 2007 @11:13AM

buzzardsbay writes: "Techtarget's resident security curmudgeon, Dennis Fisher, is calling for an end to Microsoft's monthly security patching cycle. Fisher points out that 'a hacker only needs one unpatched system, one little crack in the fence in order to launch a major attack on a given network. The sheer volume of the patches Microsoft releases each month makes it quite difficult for even the most conscientious IT department to get every patch out to all of the affected systems in a reasonable amount of time.'"

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